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Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (Maslanka)
This work was retroactively designated Concerto No. 1.
General Info
Year: 1976
Duration: 20:00
Movements: Three
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown | Score (Purchase) - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Piano
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Contrabass Clarinet
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Tuba
Contrabass
Electric Organ
Percussion including:
(percussion breakdown needed)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A concerto in three movements written for piano and an ensemble of orchestral winds, brass, percussion, and electric organ (no saxophone or euphonium).
This Concerto, written between 1974 and 1976, was my first composition for wind ensemble. It was prompted in part by my DUO for flute and piano (1972), which was written for flutist Leone Buyse and pianist Joseph Dechario. Although he never played the concerto, Dechario’s performance work on the extremely demanding DUO inspired the concerto’s piano part.
This first piano concerto is an explosion contained in a classical form, and showed the nascent tendency in my music for both an objective formal process and a blossoming fantasy. Elements of extreme post-tonal violence are side by side with a sweet tunefulness and a gentle irony.
-Program Note by David Maslanka
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
None discovered thus far.
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alex and the Phantom Band (2002/2015)
- Angel of Mercy (2015)
- California (2016)
- A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (1999)
- Concerto for Marimba and Band (1990)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2015)
- Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (1979)
- Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- Concerto No 2 for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (2002)
- Concerto No 3 for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2016)
- Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Crown of Thorns (1991)
- Desert Roads (2005)
- Fanfare-Variations on the Chorale Melody "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall). See: Recitation Book
- First Light (2016)
- Four Pieces for Band (1980)
- Give Us This Day (2005)
- Golden Light (1990)
- Heart Songs (2001)
- Hell's Gate (1997)
- Hohner (1999)
- Hosannas (2015)
- Husa (2016)
- Hymn for World Peace (2014)
- Illumination (2013)
- In Memoriam (1990)
- Laudamus Te (1995)
- Letter to Martin (2015)
- Liberation (2012)
- Little Concerto (1990)
- Mass (1995/2005)
- Montana Music: Chorale Variations (1993)
- Morning Star (1997)
- Mother Earth (2008)
- Mountain Roads (1997)
- On This Bright Morning (2013)
- Peace (2012)
- Prelude on a Gregorian Tune (1981)
- Procession of the Academics (2008)
- Quintet for Winds Number 2
- Recitation Book (2006)
- Remember Me (2013)
- Requiem (2013)
- Rollo Takes a Walk (1980)
- Saint Francis (2015)
- Sea Dreams (1998)
- The Seeker (2016)
- Song at the End of Time
- Songs for the Coming Day (2012)
- Song Book (2001)
- Symphony No. 2 (1987)
- Symphony No. 3 (1991/2007)
- Symphony No. 4 (1993)
- Symphony No. 5 (2000)
- Symphony No. 6 (2004)
- Symphony No 7 (2004)
- Symphony No 8 (2008)
- Symphony No. 9 (2011)
- Symphony No. 10 (2018)
- Tears (1994)
- Testament (2001)
- Traveler (2003)
- A Tuning Piece: Songs of Fall and Winter (1995)
- ufo dreams (1999)
- Unending Stream of Life (2007)
- Variants on a Hymn Tune (1995)
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