Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 40

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I  Grave – Allegro

II  Passacaglia (Andante)

III  Larghetto

IV  Allegro vivace

During October and November of 2021, for some unaccountable reason, I felt the urge to compose a neo-baroque concerto grosso. My intention was to mix Handelian features with quirky harmonic patterns that would substitute for the circle-of-fifths progressions that are so characteristic of baroque music. In pursuing this aim, I drew upon music I had written as student exercises and end-of-term entertainment in the early 1970s. I did not feel the same concern about eccentrically developing my own pastiches as I would have done had I chosen an actual concerto grosso by Handel (as Schoenberg did in his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, freely composed after Handel’s Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 7).

Details

Year
Publisher
Composer
Minutes
12

Recordings

Date published
2023
Date recorded
2023
Performers
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, cond. Paul Mann
Record company
Toccata Classics
Title
Derek B. Scott – Orchestral Music, Vol. 3
Venue
Great Amber Concert Hall, Liepāja, Latvia.