McGuire: Concerto for Trombone - Tenor Trombone & Orchestra

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Concerto for Trombone

1. Andante libero
2. Sostenuto
3. Allegro

Out of a mysterious blend of harmonics in the string orchestra the trombonist emerges, unveiling the theme notes of the concerto. The music grows in intensity with fast, rhythmic groups, giving way to a wilder, jig-like dance section. Gradually calming, this first movement ends serenely.

The Sostenuto takes serenity into the realm of sensuous harmonies that build and dissolve, passing through a central section that brings flavours of 'cool' jazz to the concerto's theme notes.

The Allegro is in the form of a rondo. While composing the earlier movements, the opening of the Rondo from Mozart's Flute Concerto in D (which I played in schooldays) kept coming into my mind - perhaps because its first four notes have the same intervals as part of the theme of my work. Inspired by this link to Mozart, I went on to make the finale recall the flute rondo and dedicated the Concerto 'to the memory of Mozart' - especially apt in 1991, the bicentenary of his death.

The Concerto was premiered at the Aix en Provence Festival in August 1991 by John Kenny and the Glasgow Festival Strings conducted by James Durrant who commissioned the piece with funding from the Scottish Arts Council. It received its UK premiere in May 1997 in a concert, later broadcast by the BBC, given by John Kenny and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra strings.


Edward McGuire

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