Programme
GUSTAV HOLST: Second Suite in F for Military Band (1911) 11′
PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore (1907/1920) 4′
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT: Symphonic Songs for Band (1957) 14′
JOHN BARNES CHANCE: Variations on a Korean Folk Song (1965) 7′
VICENT EGEA: Variacions “Agur Jaunak” (2007) 12′
FRANCO CESARINI: Old Russian Romances (2012) 13′
Folk songs and dances from around the world are a wonderful musical heritage. The melodic and rhythmic characteristics of one's own culture or the exoticism of a foreign one have attracted the attention of most composers. This concert is an invitation to travel through these repertoires and enjoy an instrumentation for a symphonic band that makes them shine.
Holst offers us seven English melodies a Second Suite in F for Military Band (Second suite in F for military band); Grainger, two Irish dances to the famous score Molly on the Shore (Molly on the Shore), and Bennett, the great orchestrator of successful Broadway musicals, makes us vibrate with a country party at the end of Symphonic Song for Band (Symphonic song for band). Tradition takes us to Korea to hear the song "Arirang" and the variations composed by Chance, and to Euskadi with the Variations "Agur Jaunak", from Aegean. The latest work is Cesarini's vision of popular Russia, so distant and at the same time so familiar after centuries of cultural exchange between one end of old Europe and the other.
Performers
Barcelona Symphonic Band
José R. Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor
