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Symphony No. 3 (Cesarini)
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Subtitle: Urban Landscapes
This work bears the designation Opus 55.
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 25:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edition Franco Cesarini, through Band Music Shop
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €457.01 | Score Only (print) - €27.10
Movements
1. Wrigley Building from Dawn to Noon
2. Blue Silhouette
3. Cloud Gate
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contra-Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-VI
(percussion detail desired)
Cello (optional)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Fascinated by the beauty of Chicago, the Swiss composer Franco Cesarini has translated his emotions into music: this is how Symphony No. 3 Urban Landscapes was born, a musical portrait of this metropolis overlooking Lake Michigan.
The composition is divided into three movements: The Wrigley Building from Dawn to Noon, Blue Silhouette and Cloud Gates, which by sharing the same thematic material arranged in cyclical form, strengthen the overall cohesion of the piece.
The first movement, preceded by a short slow introduction in which the main theme is presented in an almost dreamlike form, metaphorically represents the city at dawn. The sudden change of time symbolizes the start of activities with all its noises and sounds: you can hear the bell that announces the closing of the subway doors, the sound of cars speeding by, the siren of a patrol car. If the first movement represents the day, the second introduces a nocturnal environment: a melancholic melody played by the English horn anticipates a more animated tempo depicting melodies coming from jazz clubs.
Powerful fanfares that take up the second theme of the first movement introduce the third movement. In this finale, the role of the two themes is reversed compared to the first movement, and one takes the place of the other in a kind of games of mirrors. Symphony No. 3 “Urban Landscapes” is a sumptuous musical portrait of the “Windy City”.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Sinfonisches Blasorchester Bern (Switzerland) (Rolf Schumacher, conductor) – 22 July 2022 (WASBE Conference, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Civica Filarmonica di Lugano (Switzerland) (Franco Cesarini, conductor) – 2022
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Abysses
- Aida: Grand Finale
- Alpina Fanfare (1997)
- Antiche Danza Ed Arie Per Liuto
- Arizona (2014)
- Blue Horizons (2002)
- Bulgarian Dances (2011)
- Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (2013)
- Ceresio
- Convergents
- Cossack Folk Dances
- Ernani
- Greek Folk Song Suite (2002)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1995)
- Huckleberry Finn Suite (2005)
- Huntingtower (as arranger) (1932/1987)
- I Vespri Siciliani
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (as arranger) (1816/2011)
- Il Trovatore : Coro dei Gitani
- A Joyful Fanfare (2007)
- Jubilee Fanfare
- La Forza del Destino (as transcriber) (1862/1995)
- Le Cortège du Roi Renaud (1999/2021)
- MGB March
- Mountain Majesty
- Norma
- Poema Alpestre (1999)
- Piccola Suite Italiana (2005)
- Puss in Boots (2013)
- Renaissance Suite (2008)
- Solemnitas
- Symphonic Fanfare (2009)
- Symphony No. 1 (2016)
- Symphony No. 2 (2018)
- Symphony No. 3 (2021)
- Tom Sawyer Suite (2002)
- Triumphal March
- Un Ballo en Maschera
- Variations on a French Folk Song (2000)
Resources
- Franco Cesarini website Accessed 5 June 2022