For What Is Lost

From Wind Repertory Project
Christopher Marshall

Christopher Marshall


General Info

Year: 2007 / 2016
Duration: c. 10:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Star Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts - €149.90   |   Score Only - €37.90


Instrumentation

Full Score
Solo Piano
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Marimba I-II
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Glockenspiel
  • Snare Drum
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tam-tam
  • Vibraphone
  • Xylophone


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

As the title suggests, this is music about memory and nostalgia. It is framed by a fragmented 12-tone theme that continually climbs, underpinned by rich tonal harmonies that eventually swirl to the surface. In the middle section, a lyrical melody arises in the piano, answered by the clarinet. Eventually, this also is swept away, as if by the winds of time, and we are left with the fragmented "searching" theme that opened the piece, this time on the piano. Again the tonal harmonies rise to the surface, but to no avail. The melody cannot be retrieved – only our memory of it remains.

Both the 12-tone theme and the harmonies that underpin the whole piece are derived from the Schubert song Trockne Blumen or Dried Flowers, the theme of which is also loss.

For What is Lost was originally the second movement of Renascence, the now-withdrawn concerto for piano and wind ensemble.

- Program note by publisher


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