Piccolo Quintet (Waterhouse)

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Piccolo Quintet is the short name of a quintet for piccolo and string quartet by Graham Waterhouse . The work, composed in 1989, was premiered in 1990. In 2002 Zimmermann Musikverlag published the work under the title "Quintet op. 26 for piccolo, 2 violins, viola and violoncello".

history

In 1989 the composer Graham Waterhouse was a cellist in the orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , which was then directed by Sergiu Celibidache . The orchestra's piccolo player suggested a quintet composition, Celibidache influenced the work. The one-movement quintet of around 16 minutes is in sonata form , framed by a slow introduction, which reappears in a different manner at the end and then ends in a virtuoso coda . The timbre of the piccolo is connected to the strings in a similar way to clarinet quintets . The quintet was performed in a private concert in London on January 1, 1990 .

The quintet was published in 2002 by Zimmermann Musikverlag. It was performed on October 13, 2002 as part of the 1st Sergiu Celibidache Festival in Munich in a discussion concert in which the composer explained Celibidache's influence on the work. Katharina Kutnewsky , Daniel Nodel, Anja Traub, Gunter Pretzel and the composer made music .

On October 5th, 2003 the quintet was performed in the Gasteig in the Graham Waterhouse Chamber Concert, played by Ulrich Biersack , Odette Couch, Kirsty Hilton, Isabel Charisius and the composer.

The quintet was recorded on CD by Gudrun Hinze and other members of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in 2007 and was released under the title piccolo concert , combined with Antonio Vivaldi 's Concerto for flautino, RV 443, and Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino , among others .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graham Waterhouse Quintet op. 26 for piccolo, 2 violins, viola and violoncello . Carpenter. 2002. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
  2. ↑ 1st Sergiu Celibidache Festival . Sergiu Celibidache Foundation. 2002. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
  3. ^ Graham Waterhouse Chamber Concert . Gasteig, October 5, 2003 (accessed October 20, 2010).
  4. ↑ Concerto Piccolo - Schulhoff, etc. . arkivmusic.com. 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2010.