Format : Score and Parts
SKU: HL.4006437
UPC: 888680989965. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Mercury Rising was commissioned by sinfonisches blasorchester wehdel and its conductor Thomas Ratzek, to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2018. They premiered this piece in their half-century concert on 2nd November 2018 in the Bremerhaven Stadttheater in Germany. Designed as a virtuosic and lively opener, Mercury Rising opens with nervous energy and driving, syncopated rhythms in a blaze of colour. The horns and saxophones then introduce a broad melody, which the trumpets subsequently take up after a change of tonality. A quieter moment introduces a distant fanfare on muted horns over bubbling semiquavers in the low clarinets. This is interrupted by a passionate tenor melody but soon returns on the full brass section, accompanied by echoes of the opening woodwind figuration, and is extended to bring the piece to a triumphant close.
SKU: HL.4006438
UPC: 888680989972.
SKU: XC.DCB2009FS
UPC: 812598033830. 9 x 12 inches.
Mercury Rising is an uplifting work for beginning band by Gene Milford. With plenty of opportunity for reinforcement of tutti playing, this work features many call-and-response between choirs in the ensemble.
SKU: XC.DCB2009
UPC: 812598033212. 9 x 12 inches.