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Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre |
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| Rediscovered: Music by one's of the World's foremost French composers. |
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search for the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra was long and seemed
impossible. The work, composed in the 60s for the French Radio, was never
performed and it was rumoured that Tailleferre, ever the generous soul,
had given the score to a visiting Guitarist from South America in the
hopes that it would be performed there. A visiting Tailleferre scholar at the French Radio was intrigued however by a new addition to the catalogue and it was quickly confirmed that this was indeed the missing manuscript that so many musicologists and guitarists had been looking for all of these years. |
The work is in four movements and is scored for 2011/1000 tymp/harp/celesta/strings and lasts aproximately 17 minutes. The work is more in the style of a "concerto grosso" than that of a virtuosic concerto, with the guitars frequently used in a solo group with the harp and celesta, which adds a very interesting orchestral colour. The writing is varied, ranging from a medieval "cantilène" style in the slow movement to free atonal sections in the second "Scherzo" movement and in the first movement. The work ends in a movement which sounds influenced by South American Popular music. The
work is available for sale in a reduction for two guitars and piano.
The orchestral material is on rental. The work is awaiting it's première,
but a midi demonstration version may be heard at this special page on
Ampcast.com |
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