Peter Maxwell Davies
Quintet for Trumpet and String Quartet
Studienpartitur
Verlag: Chester MusicStil: ModerneAusgabe: NotenArt-Nr.: C11135A / MUSCH61589 


für Trompete in C, Violine, Viola, Cello
Dauer: ca 28 min

This work was commissioned by the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Council and the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. It was first performed on 25thFebruary 1999, by the Yggdrasil Quartet and John Wallace (trumpet).

The Quintet was written in January 1999, and consists of one movement, in readily audible sections. It is based on one of the songs I was in the process of composing for the children of Sanday School, Orkney, and although the materials are in a state of constant transformation, it imparts its local flavour throughout.

Particularly the opening slow section bears its traces, though distributed around the string quartet by fleeting reference, rather than consistently, in any one line.

The trumpet enters by stealth, taking us through to an allegro of two-part form in the first part, two contrasting subjects are presented and in the second they are reconciled, and made one.

A solo cello line leads into a lento of extreme melodic simplicity and great harmonic concentration realising on a literal and surface level what was hitherto functional only deep within texture and process. A trumpet cadenza prefigures a short presto, which finally evaporates into a lento molto sentence, further distilling the works harmonic and motivic contours into their most basic crystals.

These last bars were the starting point of the composition process.


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