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Author: orchestr
Date: 2011-01-14 06:43
I am currently playing the Prokofiev Quintet with some really phenomenal musicians. We would love to do more with the group, and I was wondering if anyone knew of ANY other pieces for this instrumentation. A quick google search yielded a piece called Diversions by Nigel Keay, and one called Three Pieces from the Suite "Ecstasy" by Jonathan Besser, both from New Zealand. Anyone know of any others?
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Author: concertmaster3
Date: 2011-01-14 15:46
Just to make sure...this is the oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and bass quintet?
Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com
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Author: concertmaster3
Date: 2011-01-14 19:08
It is a great piece! Let me know what else you find. I actually want to play it again. I played it in undergrad, and I want to play it again as a mature musician! I wouldn't mind learning the clarinet and/or violin parts as well.
Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-01-14 20:22
It is an unusual combination and I doubt that you will find anything else but it would be interesting if you did, especially if it was a quality piece. ESP
http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: orchestr
Date: 2011-01-14 21:20
I'm working on trying to get the full Trapeze ballet, but at nearly $500 for Boosey & Hawkes to just print the score, I'm not getting my hopes up. Does anyone know of a library that has this?
If anyone's curious, here is information about the Trapeze ballet, with 2 extra movements added from the quintet for an extra 5 minutes of music.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article1122525.ece
http://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Serge-Prokofieff-Trapeze/26095
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Author: Nigel Keay
Date: 2011-07-17 15:32
Just recently I saw an online pdf for the booklet of a Decca CD by the Melos Ensemble of London where the Prokofiev Quintet is included (http://www.buywell.com/booklets/4802152.pdf). Raymond Tuttle states in the text: "The troupe’s limited resources explain the ballet’s unusual scoring, and indeed, it is difficult to find other works in the classical repertory so scored. (New Zealand-born composer Nigel Keay wrote one in 2003, called Diversions.)"
I'm sure he did a thorough search in preparing those notes, so seems that my work was the next to be written for that formation after Prokofiev's. I just noted that Prokofiev wrote his Quintet very soon after moving to Paris - that was also the case for me in 2003, I moved here mid 2001.
At the time of writing my Diversions for Quintet I didn't think too much about how much repertoire there was for that combination. I'd just played the Prokofiev Quintet and have a habit of writing for groups I've played in. Afterwards I thought it would be good one day to do an entire quintet concert, so suggested to Jonathan that he produce something. His Quintet is actually a "classical" version for a work already written for an improvising group.
composer and violist
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Author: davyd
Date: 2011-07-17 20:03
Perhaps you might transcribe something? Shostakovich's 24 preludes and fugues op. 87, in particular #13 which is for five voices, would be worth a look. If you don't want to deal with copyright issues, there' always the Well Tempered Clavier.
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Author: donald
Date: 2011-07-18 01:17
ha ha, i can't resist putting in my 10 cents here, Jonathan Besser walks past my flat every so often- yesterday in fact, and he often looks up and waves if he hears music playing. Knowing his love of Klez and Trad jazz, i burnt him a copy of Hairy Jazz by Shel Silverstein with the Red Onion Band and ran out to give him a copy the next time he walked by... I'll ask him about this quintet next time i see him (which may be in half an hour, or not for another week).
dn
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Author: RodRubber
Date: 2011-07-18 19:58
Greetings,
In 2006 my ensemble, Inscape, commissioned a composition for the exact instrumentation of the Prokofiev quintet. The result was Anachrony, By Justin Boyer, a tremendous success. I strongly suggest trying this work.
There work can be obtained through the composer, and there is a clip of the piece on the website....
justinboyer.com
thanks
Rod
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Author: donald
Date: 2011-08-13 03:13
I spoke to Jonathan last night and he said he'd leave a copy of a recording he has in my mailbox next time he goes past, i'll let you all know what that piece is like once i've heard it. dn
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