SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN COMPOSERS OF WIND ENSEMBLE
2000-2015
Notes from a lecture at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
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SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN COMPOSERS OF WIND ENSEMBLE
2000-2015
An invitation to talk about significant wind ensemble music of the past fifteen years led me to talk about the three works featured in my Homepage for July 1st:
GRAN DUO by Magnus Lindberg
SONATAS by Poul Ruders
MUSIC FOR WINDS by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
These three works are in my estimation worthy to stand together with the Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments, and should be in the potential repertoire of any Symphony Orchestra and excellent wind ensemble.
I believe that there are three particularly fine composers of wind orchestral music who have in the past decade or so contributed massively to the repertoire. Browse on their names below to access their website and information about their music.
METROPOLIS 1993
SCENES FROM BRUEGEL 1994
BERMUDA TRIANGLE. 1995
ASCENT 1996
AWAYDAY 1996
EUPHONIUM CONCERTO 1997
YIDDISH DANCES 1998
AWAYDAY 1996
ELEMENTS 1998
SYMPHONY NO 1 IN C 2000
DOWNTOWN DIVERSIONS 2001
TOWARDS NIRVANA. 2002
DANCES FROM CRETE 2003
FRENCH DANCES REVISITED. 2004
ADRENALINE CITY 2006
MIDNIGHT IN BUENOS AIRES 2007
FAREWELL 2008
TRANQUILITY 2009
WAR OF THE WORLDS 2010
CONCERTINO FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE 2010
ETERNAL VOICES 2010
REPERCUSSIONS 2011
RONDO BURLESQUE (MAHLER/GORB) 2011
LOVE TRANSFORMING 2013
BOHEMIAN REVELRY. 2013
BELLS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. 2013
SUMMER DANCES. 2013
CONCERTO FOR CELLO 2013
SPRING INTO ACTION. 2015
MANTRA 3 (FOULDS/GORB). 2015
DANCERIES SET 1 1999
MASQUE 2000
A FESTIVE OVERTURE 2001
DIAGHILEV DANCES 2002
INFERNAL RIDE 2003
WHIRLEGIGG 2003
VRANJANKA 2005
CLOUD OF UNKNOWING 2005
THE GILDED THEATRE 2008
DANCERIES SET 2 2011
AUTUMN ELEGY 2013
MEMORIAS DE UN HOMBRE DE CIUDAD 2003
CONCERTANGO 2004
DE TIEMPO Y QUIMERA 2005
MARCO POLO; THE SILK ROAD 2006
TRAMONTO 2007
PRELUDIO Y DANZA DEL ALBA 2007
LAS HIJAS DE ERIS 2007
PEQENA SUITE 2008
LA DAMA CENTINELA 2009
DUENDE 2010
MARCO POLO; THE CATHAY YEARS 2011
SYMPHONY 2012
MARCO POLO; THE BOOK OF INDIA 2013
B-SIDE CONCERTO 2014
THREE SKETCHES FOR WIND ENSEMBLE 2014
XXII SIGNIFICANT EUROPEAN WIND WORKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
There are of course many more works which I could have selected for this list, but I think that this gives a fair overview of European wind music of the past fifteen years which I might add to my programmes. Some of these I have not yet heard, and so I am assuming that the works are significant, judging from what I know of the composer in the past.
2000 Gran Duo Magnus Lindberg
2002 Diaghilev Dances Kenneth Hesketh
2003 Euphonium Concerto Stig Nordhagen
2003 Dances from Crete Adam Gorb
2004 Concertango Luis Serrano Alarcon
2005 The Cloud of Unknowing Kenneth Hesketh (revised 2015)
2005 Vranjanka Kenneth Hesketh
2006 Marco Polo. The Silk Road Luis Serrano Alarcon
2006 Temples Oliver Waespi
2006 An Elegy for Ur Edwin Roxburgh
2006 Black Fire (violin concerto) Nigel Clarke
2007 Image in Stone Stephen McNeff
2007 Concerto for Trumpet Marco Pütz
2007 Concerto for Baritone Sax Bernard van Beurden
2008 Farewell Adam Gorb
2009 Music for Winds Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
2009 Horn Concerto Axel Ruoff
2010 Eternal Voices Adam Gorb
2011 Sonatas Poul Ruders
2013 new balls Jonathan Lloyd
2011 Marco Polo. The Cathay Years Luis Serrano Alarcon
2013 Marco Polo The Book of India Luis Serrano Alarcon
2014 Battles of Coronel &Falklands Simon Dobson