Edlin Paul Max: New Horizons
concerto for trumpet and chamber orchestra (ORCH)
Edlin Paul Max: New Horizons
concerto for trumpet and chamber orchestra (ORCH)
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I was about to move country, to new horizons, and this work grew out of a shorter work I had recently written for Alison Balsom and the London Chamber Orchestra in celebration of the LCO’s 100th birthday. There was more to say and do, and this concerto is the result. Cast in a single movement but in a symmetrical form of seven sections, complete with a cadenza, the work was composed between England and Italy, as I was travelling backwards and forwards. It strikes a new path in its style, and is, dare I say it, more ‘open’ in its musical language. I have no doubt that the openness of the Italian people and the landscape I knew I would be moving to had an impact on the music’s overall impression. And, of course, being a trumpeter, I wanted to write a solo concerto that responded to the instrument I know intimately, and reflect many of the works and styles I have worked with as a trumpeter. The soloist plays three different trumpets, a standard trumpet in Bb or C, a piccolo trumpet and flugelhorn, which has the most mellow and beguiling of sonorities.
This work is dedicated to John Wallace CBE with huge admiration, gratitude and affection.
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