Fanfarria
This work bears the designation Opus 50.
General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c. 3:30
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Molenaar Editions
Cost: Score and Parts - €95.40 | Score Only - €19.08
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Bassoon Contra
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Bb Clarinet Contrabas
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
Bb Bas Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone I-II
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Bb Flugelhorn I-II
Horn in F/Eb I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Trombone Bass
Euphonium in Bb/C I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Piano
Timpani
Percussion (4 players, including:)
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals (crash)
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Tam Tam
- Triangle
- Tubular Bell
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The heroic and powerful Fanfarria, Op.50 was commissioned and premiered by the Alicante Municipal Concert Band in 2012 to commemorate their first centennial. The main epic theme is introduced by the trumpets and developed through the appearance of the different band sections in counterpoint. Finally, a briljant coda that builds to a final apotheosis ends the composition, which was also written to celebrate the completion of fifty compositions in Perez Garrido´s opus collection.
Fanfarria, Op.50 won the Bronze Medal at prestigious Global Music Awards (2014), California, and has been nominated to Hollywood Music in Media Awards from Los Ángeles (2014).
- Program Note from publisher
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Overture to Avalon Conservatório de Música do Porto Wind Orchestra (Fernando Marinho, Conductor)
Media
- Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Alicante, Spain (Jose VIcente Diaz, conductor)
- Conservatório de Música do Porto Wind Orchestra, Portugal (Fernando Marinho, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Amador Valley High School (Pleasanton, Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Jonathan Grantham, conductor) – 18 July 2015 - WASBE Conference, San Jose, Calif.
- Orchestre d´Harmonie de St. Jean de Braye, France (Alain Coudrais, conductor) - 10 May 2014
- Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Alicante, Spain (Jose Vicente Diaz, conductor) - 3 August 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 1952
- A Trip to Spain (2015)
- American Fanfare (2016)
- Amiguiño
- Amor Hermoso
- Anniversary Overture
- Asociación Musical "El Castillo"
- Beethoven Is Dancing Salsa! (2013)
- Carmen Checa Jiménez
- Concertino de los Filabres
- Cuarteto "Trágico"
- Dawn of a New Horizon
- Divertimento for five trumpets
- El Submarino Peral (2017)
- Escenas Diabólicas
- European Overture (2014)
- Fandango in Florida! (2020)
- Fanfarria (2013)
- Fantasía (2005)
- Fantasía Andaluza
- Far West Fantasy (2015)
- Gran Dúo
- Halloween Suite (2019)
- Heroic Overture Op.26a
- Homenaje al Maestro Alvarez Alonso
- Ilusión
- Irish Dream, An
- Last Day of the Dinosaurs (2019)
- Latin Suite
- Marcha del Ditirambo
- Mediterranean Kiss (2017)
- Pater Dimitte Illis
- Rex Regum
- Santiago Apóstol
- Santo Grial
- Song for Peace
- Soledad
- Sueño de un Recuerdo
- A Trip to Spain (2015)
- Urban Concert
- Víctor Barrio
- Virgen de los Remedios
- Virgen del Rosario