Austin Symphonic Band Performing Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo by Malcolm Arnold
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2018
- Austin Symphonic Band. April 8, 2018 concert at Austin ISD Performing Arts Center in Austin TX. ASB performing Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo by Malcolm Arnold (arr. John P. Paynter). Dr. Bradley Kent, Guest Conductor. Concert title: "LEADERS of the Band." [For program notes, select "more."] Audio recording by On Site Digital, Randy Bryant owner.
Program notes by David Cross:
Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (1963)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), arr. John Paynter
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold was first inspired to play the trumpet after hearing a performance of Louis Armstrong. Arnold was appointed as second trumpet of the London Philharmonic in 1941 and assumed the principal chair in 1943. In 1948, Sir Malcolm turned to composition and lent his fresh and cheerful voice to movie scores and symphonic works. He contributed music to over 130 film scores and won an Academy Award in 1957 for his score for "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
Arnold rejected the atonality of the serial composers and instead crafted beautiful melodies. His collections of English and Scottish dances are mainstays of the symphonic band repertoire.
Originally written for brass band and entitled “Little Suite for Brass, Op. 80,” "Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo" opens as a dignified procession including mild dissonance and well-placed fanfares. Harmonically straight-forward, it announces the hauntingly beautiful Siciliano, a 6/8 dance featuring trumpet and alto sax solos and arching woodwind lines. The whole thing comes to a joyful conclusion with a romp in Rondo form. Never one to deny his audience, Arnold pushes tempo to the very end for a flag-waving conclusion.
i feel like the composer shoulda made siciliano longer
Tofuu I can relate to that it’s beautiful
Yeah like a whole day longer
@@AeonSaturnal I want it to never stop, I want a sort of Bolero idea. Trumpet gets the main feature because...dear god its beautiful, then woodwind whispy sound, then Alto Saxophone, then Trumpet again, then I want a low brass feature, then Tenor saxophone starts the melody, Bari takes over, Alto takes over, and the saxophones have a block chord soli (not jazz lol) and all harmonize the main melody with those beautiful reduction chords in the background that make this piece so special (the tension and release chords). Then after that I want the Trumpet groups either 3 or 4 part, to play the main melody intensely loud FF while a really dissonant chord is held by every other instrument, and then as soon as they reach the last note, a beautiful change from tensions to pure resolve and smiles on the audience, cats stop whining, babies stop whining, the moon smiles, all around bliss. And then, you raise that ending chord with everyone now and then the release at the end. I also want there to be a 4th movement which combines the first and second movements at the end because I love that opening trumpet number, so fun. God what a great piece, its up there with Sea Shanty by Robert Sheldon.
It's really long when you have the piccolo part.
y’know, when we first received this, i had the impression that we likely wouldn’t perform it. this is why i never realized how beautiful and musical this piece truly sounds, but i appreciate it now :) we have a number of weeks before the performance, and i just know i’ll have each part put together. :) (even those runs in Siciliano you can almost hear… TvT)
- a clarinet player
Lord, Siciliano sounds so insanely good. I have to these songs to get into a symphonic band so, this is great confidence with how great you guys sound :)
We are doing this for my band and I am really excited but listening to this made me realize the work that is cut out for me.
I totally applaud all these mature musicians for keeping their instrumental talent/proficiency alive. Their caliber of music is wonderful and meaningful. Nice work!
Amazing
This is beautiful
0:00 Prelude
2:16 Siciliano
5:47 Rondo
I’m currently playing this for my spring concert, I’m in middle school. I play bass clarinet and I love that trumpet part so much and I’m kinda jealous. But I always love to play this. It absolutely beautiful.
Playing this rn in wind ensemble really good pieve
Played this piece in 8th grade middle school band. Really fun if you have a good part
Yo same, got a decent trumpet part. Not too hard not too easy
I played this in college band. I played the clarinet, and this was actually a fun piece to play.
Do beautiful if only I could sound like them 😍😍
I remember back in high school me and one of my friends (me bari sax, him bass clarinet) would swing Rondo before band started
it looks very random at 3:44 for the clarient player, but thats what we get, we have a broken chord run
yuppers. that is good.
5:48 rondo
i have to do this today at my concert im so nervous nice tho
We are doing this for my band I’m a freshman and I made the “good” band which is the wind ensemble so I honestly don’t know why we’re playing this piece 🤷🏼♀️😭but I play trombone. And the “good” band is really hard to make as a freshman lolz
This piece is really easy to play decently and insanely difficult to play amazingly. I’ve seen people cry in my wind ensemble from the siciliano played well enough.
@@connerroth3416this is so true, I am one of those who cry in this piece because it’s just so goddamn beautiful
Sure, the piece seems easy on the surface but music isn’t just being able to play it, there has to be emotion and depth to it or it just sounds boring and bland, like a good way to put emotion into your playing is trying to describe how the music sounds to to you and try to implant that, like siciliano to me sounds romantic, lush and almost nostalgic in a way or with Prelude to me it sounds like a British royal fanfare in a way. The only exception is if you’re playing some shit like Pageant by Vincent Persichetti I swear that man snorted a line before writing that piece
Mvt 2 2:16
Mvt 3 5:47
Great performance. I assume the snare drummer has some kind of hearing problem? The timing is very bad there