Brass Quintet
SKU:
ST.Y224
Composed by
Rhian Samuel. Wind &
brass music. Score and
Parts. Score and parts.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y224. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y224).
ISBN
9790220221552.
Scen
es from Welsh life and
landscape are a frequent
source of inspiration for
the music of Rhian
Samuel, and, in Dovey
Junction, the joyful
atmosphere of families en
route to the Welsh
seaside via the little
west-coast railway line
is the cue for a
crackling scherzo for
brass quintet.
A
snappy rondo theme
insists on dressing up in
a different texture each
time it returns. In
between, pithy staccato
phrases for trumpets are
the setting for more
cantabile figures from
horn and trombone, and a
brief and bluesy episode
for muted solo trumpet
suggests lazy days on the
beach, or grown-up
nostalgia for holidays
long past. But the energy
and sense of expectation
remain unstoppable from
the first bar to the
last, and all five
instruments sweep the
music into a furious coda
that ends the work in
riotous high spirits.
Dovey
Junction was written
for performance by
Borealis Brass (Alaska)
at the UNESCO World Forum
on Music, Los Angeles,
USA in October 20005, at
the invitation of the
Fondazione Adkins Chiti:
Donne in Musica,
(Rome).
