Concertino Da Camera, written in 1935 by Jacques Ibert, was a small concerto for alto saxophone and eleven instruments: flute, bassoon, oboe, horn, trumpet and strings. This score is for alto saxophone and piano. Ibert Flute Concerto Program Notes Schumann. Stanton's offers sheet music for concert band, jazz, choral, vocal, piano, guitar tabs, methods, solos & ensembles. Sheet music downloads available online. Leopold Stokowski Concerts 1941 to 1974. 1943 8 January San Francisco Symphony Civic Auditorium, San Franciso, California.
Last night we attended a performance of the Ibert Concertino da Camera by the Redlands Symphony with Joshua Alvarez as soloist. I don't recall ever hearing this work, and I was only slightly acquainted with the composer. It was a jaunty work with a larghetto in the center exploiting some of the lush tones of the saxophone. I chuckled at the program notes saying it was one of the greatest works in the saxophone repertoire. What is the saxophone repertoire? Are some of you folks familiar with this work and have any views on it?
What do you think of Jacques Ibert as a composer? Ibert carried on a French tradition that can be traced back to Chabrier. Some of his works offer the 'irony with a smile' also frequently found with Poulenc and Milhaud. Other pieces, such as Escales, are very pictoresque in the pre-impressionistic vein of Vincent d'Indy more pictoresque works. Of his many pieces which resulted from a commission, such as the Concertino, Ibert displayed excellence in his sense of proportions, brilliant instrumental writing and his often gay, graceful, polished expression. The Concertino was commissioned by a Danish instrumentalist who introduced the alto saxophone to Jacques Ibert who, evidently, was not familiar with the instrument. Other than his famous Ports of Call, I much enjoy his 'symphonie concertante' for oboe and orchestra (1951), his concerto for flute and orchestra (composed the same year as the Concertino), his Ouverture de Fete and some of his film music.
He also wrote a lively Divertissement for chamber orchestra and a Symphonie Marine derived from documentary film music on the rescue of sailors aboard a sinking ship. There's much of Ibert's music that I am not acquainted with, particularly his operas, comic operas and ballet music wherein he proved a very prolific composer. Other compositions for the saxophone?
Off the top of my head: Glazunov, Villa-Lobos, Debussy, Dubois, Koechlin. Lmpower wrote:Last night we attended a performance of the Ibert Concertino da Camera by the Redlands Symphony with Joshua Alvarez as soloist.
I don't recall ever hearing this work, and I was only slightly acquainted with the composer. It was a jaunty work with a larghetto in the center exploiting some of the lush tones of the saxophone.
I chuckled at the program notes saying it was one of the greatest works in the saxophone repertoire. What is the saxophone repertoire? Are some of you folks familiar with this work and have any views on it? What do you think of Jacques Ibert as a composer? I forgot to mention some of Ibert's compositions. You have already been given some facts about the man. There's actually some good music by this composer, my favourite being his Four Don Quichotte Songs usually sung by baritone or bass-baritone, performed with orchestra OR piano accompaniment.
He also wrote: Macbeth and Golgotha Suites (Naxos); Escales, Divertissiment, Overture de Fete, Tropismes, Flute Concerto, Symphonie Concertante; Sonata for Flute and Harp. For piano he wrote a Petite Suite; Histoires; Toccata; Les Recontres, and other solo pieces.
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'In my concertos I have allotted the instruments the types of themes which correspond to their particular tone qualities and respect their expressive possibilities.' This statement of 's certainly applies to his Flute Concerto, written over the years 1932-1933.
The work was dedicated to, who was the featured soloist in its premiere performance, under 's direction, in Paris on February 25, 1934. Both Moyse and Gaubert, incidentally, were students of the great French flutist and teacher, for whom many of the greatest French flute works were written. 's Concerto was dedicated to Moyse, who didn't play it often. In fact, the work lay neglected for many years due to its perceived difficulty. The opening Allegro is based on a perky first theme with a neoclassical shape, and a slower, more languorous second theme. Throughout, the flute is kept constantly busy.
A sweet, lyrical Andante follows, the flute's long-breathed song accompanied by gentle strings. The longest of the work's three movements is the last, a jazzy Allegro scherzando with a virtuoso solo cadenza; this Finale is such a challenge for flutists that it became a test piece at the Paris Conservatoire.
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Parts/Movements. Allegro.
Andante. Allegro scherzando Appears On.