Battle Symphony (Gorb)

Adam Gorb

Adam Gorb

Subtitle: For Woodwind Ensemble including Saxophones.

This work bears the designation Opus 26.

General Info

Year: 1999
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £55.95   |   Score Only (print) - £16.50

Movements

1. Flourish
2. Courtly Dance
3. Flourish (Reprise)
4. Sword Fighting Practice
5. Soldiers' Drunken Panic
6. Preparation for Battle
7. The Battle
8. Lament for the Dead
9. Triumphal Dance
10. Flourish (Reprise)

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
Contrabassoon (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Technically undemanding and offering flexibility of player-strength, this is another of those marvelously inventive Gorb recreations. Here he takes a fresh look at the highly fashionable 17th century battle romps, all fanfares, drum rolls and martial scrimmaging. Ten sections in ten minutes, the action never flags for a moment in this breathtaking blend of baroque pastiche and something more subversively contemporary.

- Program Note from publisher

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble (Shea Lolin, conductor)

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble (Shea Lolin, conductor)

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem) Chamber Winds - 25 September 2021
• The Hartt Wind Ensemble (West Hartford, Conn.) (Glen Adsit, conductor) - 19 November 2020

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• A Little Tango Music (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)

All Wind Works

• Adrenaline City (2006)
• African Samba (2006)
• Ascent (1996/2004)
• Awayday (1996)
• Awayday (arr. Wintringham) (1999/2015)
• Battle Symphony (1999)
• Bells Across the Atlantic (2013)
• Bermuda Triangle (1994)
• Bohemian Revelry (2013)
• Bohemian Revelry: For Chamber Ensemble (2013/2021)
• Bohemian Revelry (tr. Holland) (2013/2017)
• Bridgewater Breeze (1996)
• Candlelight Procession (2001)
• Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind Ensemble (2022)
• Dances from Crete (2003)
• Downtown Diversions (2000)
• Eine Kleine Walzermusik (2009)
• Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (2003)
• Elements (1998)
• Euphonium Concerto 1997
• Farewell (2008)
• French Dances Revisited (2004)
• A Little Salsa Music
• A Little Tango Music (2007)
• Metropolis (1992)
• Midnight in Buenos Aires (2007)
• Out of the Darkness (2023)
• Parade of the Wooden Warriors (1999)
• Pikes Peak (2017)
• Repercussions (2011)
• Scenes from an English Landscape
• Scenes from Bruegel (1994)
• Suite for Winds (1993)
• Summer Dances (2012)
• Sunrise and Safari (2006)
• Symphony No. 1 in C (2000)
• Three Way Suite
• Towards Nirvana (2002)
• Tranquility (2009)
• Viderunt Omnes (2014)
• Yiddish Dances (1997)
• Yiddish Dances (Chamber) (1997/2020)

Resources

• Adam Gorb website Accessed 29 November 2020
• "Battle Symphony “La Battalia”, op. 26." Wind Band Symphony Archive. Web. Accessed 29 November 2020
• Gorb, A. (1999). Battle Symphony : For Woodwind Ensemble including Saxophones [score]. Maecenas Music: Kenley, UK.
• Perusal score