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The Piano Concertos of John Field |
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The Irish composer, John Field (1782 - 1837), wrote seven piano concertos, but apart from a relatively small number of recordings, most of them are forgotten today, and rarely appear on the concert platform.
I have just finished transcribing an earlier type-written manuscript, which is still available from Plymouth City Library Service in its original form, with all the music examples now produced using Sibelius 4.
Hopefully the book will eventually be published in some form, either in the UK or abroad, but if any visitors would like to know more about this composer and his works, then they may well find it rewarding. Field is usually referred to as the Inventor of the Nocturne, but, as this book will hopefully show, this is to base such an appraisal only on a relatively small part of his total output.
The book consists of 188 pages (A4 double-spaced), with 210 musical examples, and is available currently in electronic form only [11.5MB] from my:
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Top scores in 'Christmas' |
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by Philip R Buttall of PRB Music
This is a setting of a well-known Polish traditional carol. I have
time, so I have chosen to set it in two beats to the bar, basically keeping to the strophic design, but with a little change of harmony during the second verse, whilst not enough to distract even the very youngest of singers!
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by Philip R Buttall of PRB Music
My dear Mum always liked Gustav Holst's tune for this carol, and it is, indeed, a beautifully effective and simple melody.
My
Again, the vocal writing is quite straightforward, with some simple harmony, mostly in , in the third verse, and some simple canonic imitation in the last. The piano accompaniment is equally not too demanding. I have once more set four verses, omitting Rossetti's original third verse.
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A couple of years ago, I was most privileged to collaborate with Dragana Petković and Biljana Krstić, from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, in the publication of Piano Exercises & Pieces for the Elementary Music School. Tragically, Dragana (born 1969) died suddenly in March 2007.
We all became very close friends as a result, but I am also delighted now to have made the acquaintance of one of Biljana's former teaching colleagues, Maja Brković, and her husband, Goran (see photo).
Maja writes: We work in a little music school in Uzice. It is an elementary music school, for
children aged 5-15. It is in a little private house, which one very generous man gave to the town for the music school about 25 years ago. He still lives on the upper floor, and we have a few classrooms on the
ground floor. Two weeks ago, he made all of us happy by buying a new Yamaha piano!
Maja and Goran are both fine pianists, and have already made two stunning recordings of my Samba..alla Turca! and Solfeggiettissimo, which I've attached as MP3 files to the scores. Their playing is absolutely faultless, with Sibelius-like accuracy! Hopefully they might be adding new recordings soon! To find out more about Maja and Goran, take a look at their new website.
In the meantime, do take a listen, if you get the chance - I'm sure you'll be as amazed as I was!
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Samba..alla Turca! |
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In his role as classical music writer for The Herald (Plymouth), Philip has reported on a good number of events during 2006, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.
Now Philip’s been able to make his own contribution to the year-long celebrations, when the prestigious City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra included his own Samba...alla Turca! in its recent Family Concert in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall.
Presenter, Alasdair Malloy, said: “Not only a musical genius, Mozart was a great practical joker with a wicked sense of fun and mischief! With this in mind, Philip Buttall has taken one of Mozart’s most popular pieces for piano and arranged it for orchestra, as if we’ve just bumped into Wolfgang at the Carnival in Brazil!”
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