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10129- Triana

Isaac Albéniz

arranged for 10-piece brass ensemble by Roger Harvey

Difficulty: Difficult

Price: £30.00

Programme note:

Albeniz was considered in his childhood to be as great a prodigy as Mozart. His expertise as a pianist from a very young age certainly supports this claim. As a composer, though, his large output is crowned by his last group of works, Iberia, for solo piano. He had taken up the idea of writing 'nationalist' music based on Spanish folk idioms many years before but it was only with this last set, after dabbling with various other styles, that he felt that he had become a serious composer of Spanish music. The set consists of 4 books of 3 pieces. The subtitle calls them 'twelve new impressions' and they are pieces of considerable technical difficulty and sophistication.

Performance note:

Pay special attention to balance and texture at all times. Much of the music needs to be very neat and tidy but the bigger tutti passages, such as at letter K, can be played with flamboyance.