The work was premiered on 19 March The work is scored for piano and violin soloists, accompanied by a wind ensemble of 13 players: For example, the first movement's measures consist of 30 and 60 measure variations, the second is measures, and the third is the length of the previous two at measures.
- Free sheet music : Calace, Raffaele - Op - Rondo scherzoso (Mandolin and Lute).
- Rondo Scherzoso;
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- Rondoletto scherzoso, Op.204 (Legnani, Luigi)!
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The first movement involves mainly the piano and the 13 wind instruments with a brief appearance by the solo violin. For the theme of the movement, Berg uses German notation to musically spell out the names of himself and his two friends and fellow members of the Second Viennese School. This theme is then treated to five variations, using the common manipulations of twelve-tone technique:.
The second movement is a large palindrome , using primarily the Prime form of the row in the first half and the Retrograde row in the second half. The movement focuses primarily on the solo violin and 13 winds, though the turning point of the palindrome is marked by a brief appearance of the solo piano. In , Berg arranged this movement as a separate piece for piano, violin and clarinet.
The third movement involves both soloists and the ensemble, and is a large rondo based on a returning rhythmic, rather than melodic, idea. Berg layers material from the first and second movements on top of each other in this final movement. There is an extremely large repeat of almost measures in the movement that is often omitted in performances and recordings.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. At a stroke, irony or ambiguity for example are removed—facets which have provided rich seams of inspiration for 20th Century composers in particular. The discs are logically laid out in chronological order, with the early Rondo Scherzoso opening disc one, followed by the first two symphonies. The brief but appealing Comedy Overture from acts on the second disc as the curtain-raiser to the third and fourth symphonies.
The only possible problem with this layout is that the Rondo is by some way the least impressive piece in the set, and Symphony No. For sure, Symphony No. Barely a year later, in , the 2nd Symphony was commenced. It shows a substantial progression by the composer in nearly every respect. At just under the half-hour mark, this work has focussed and compact power. This might have well been true at the time of writing, but I think that was trumped by the 3rd Symphony. He uses a four-movement form, with the slow movement second, and an orchestra that would not have phased Brahms.
Kammerkonzert (Berg)
Conway, surely rightly, sees this as a statement of intent by Fricker if only to show that it was possible to write music with relevance for an audience in the here and now using resources of the nominal past. Even in this traditional form Fricker cannot resist some structural quirks. Here the finale is a palindrome, although I have to say I am not sure I would have realised this unless it had said so in the notes. At just under thirty-eight minutes and written in one continuous movement, this is a demanding work for both listeners and players. Perhaps Lyrita missed a trick here, choosing to present it as a single-CD track whereas for the uninitiated such as myself, separating out the sections outlined by Conway would have helped me learn the work.
Well, I have to say Fricker really does not sound like any of his contemporaries, relatively well-known or not. Certainly, he does not use the orchestra with as much overt colour as, say, Benjamin Frankel, another composer who was attracted by the potential of atonal music.
Rondo Scherzoso
Conway mentions the energy of Robert Simpson symphonies as a comparison, but I cannot hear that as more than a passing coincidence. He avoids the emotional ambiguity of Arnold or the more obvious appeal of Rawsthorne or Arnell, or the neo-Romanticism of Alan Bush, or the more overt modernism of a Searle.
He is something of all of those and nothing. Indeed, the more I listen, for good or ill it becomes clear that he was very much his own man, and a composer who at his best could write with compelling intensity. Yes, there are a couple of minor blips in ensemble, and the very occasional split note, but the overall standard is very good.
Free sheet music : Smith, Frederick William Boyton - Rondo Scherzoso (Piano solo)
More important, the sense of engagement with the actual music is palpable. Each symphony is directed by a different conductor, with Bryden Thomson and Edward Downes stalwarts of the orchestra who went onto wider fame once the BBC allowed their ensembles to be commercially recorded.
- Meine Liebe ist grün Op. 63 No. 5 - Score!
- Rondo Scherzoso by B. Smith - sheet music on MusicaNeo;
- Rondo in A minor, K.511 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus).
- Dont Frighten the Pansies.
- Rondo scherzoso, Op.6 (Laub, Ferdinand).
The BBC engineering of the time is also pleasingly and unfussily good. The stereo spread of the orchestra is wide with a neutral sound-stage old broadcasting house in Manchester, one assumes, since no details are given. For those unsure whether Fricker is their cup of tea, all these performances can be streamed—illegally posted one assumes in terms of copyright—on YouTube. Indeed, Fricker has a rather good YouTube presence.
While the broadcast preserved here is very good, I have to say that Wordsworth is even more dynamic. He had produced a performance which reinforces my opinion that No. With Fricker, there are very few sources of information of any kind, so Conway is a vital guide. Indeed, as so often with his notes, Conway proves to be one of the most consistently impressive writers working in this field today. As Lyrita has shown repeatedly over the years with various composers and their works, this is music that deserves multiple hearings and the chance through repeated listening to be appreciated in its own right.
With other composers, releases from this source have filled important gaps in our knowledge of their work; I am thinking about George Lloyd or even Daniel Jones here. This set brings before the listening public two well-filled discs of music by a composer otherwise little heard at all.