Fanfare, Op.3a

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YOUTUBE Link:

https://youtu.be/tc9OMDw86GQ

ABOUT THE MUSIC

This brief fanfare is scored for 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones + tuba, 2 sets of timpani, plus percussion – comprising bass drum, snare drum, suspended cymbals and 2 tam-tams.  The 2 sets of timpani are ideally to be positioned at either side of the stage, with the rest of the brass stretching across the front of the stage, in an arc (with percussion behind).  Finally, the 2 sets of 2 trumpeters are positioned on each side of the auditorium balcony (opposite and facing the stage) – for maximum spatial effect.

Ideal duration is ca. 1'15" to 1'30"

AWARDS:

* A Record of the Year in Fanfare magazine (USA) ("Want List 2008")

MAJOR REVIEWS:

Fanfare (USA), Vol.31: No.5 (May–June 2008), pp.179-180, and "The Want List 2008", in Fanfare (USA), Vol. 32: No.2 (Nov-Dec 2008), p.77.

Tempo (UK), Vol.62: No.243 (Jan. 2008), pp.88-89.

Selected International Music Reviews

Bailey, Lynn Rene, ‘Little, Jonathan: Terpsichore and Other Works’ [CD Review] in “Fanfare” (USA), Vol.31: No.5 (May-June 2008), pp.179-180.  ISSN 0148-9364 – “music of tremendous power, yet music that is not reliant on cheap pounding-and-blaring effects”

Bailey, Lynn Rene, ‘The Want List 2008’, in “Fanfare” (USA), Vol.32: No.2 (Nov-Dec 2008), p.77 – “a major new, original and quite brilliant classical voice”.

 

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Year
Publisher
Wirripang
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Recordings

Notes
For Brass and Percussion
Date published
2004
Date recorded
2004 (remastered 2011); Released 28.02.2012
Performers
Brass and Percussion players of the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Robert Ian Winstin
Recording format id
5867
Record company
PARMA (Navona label, distributed by Naxos) NV5867 UPC896931000673
Title
Polyhymnia: String, Orchestral and Choral Works of Jonathan Little
Venue
Recorded in the National Radio Studios of Ukraine, Kiev
Notes
For Brass and Percussion
Date published
2004
Date recorded
2004; Released 01.2008
Performers
Brass and Percussion players of the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra
Recording format id
7002
Record company
Dilute Recordings [DIL 07 002]
Title
Terpsichore and Other Works
Venue
Recorded in the National Radio Studios of Ukraine, Kiev