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Format	Title	Version	AMC Library	Price
CD	Music of Colin Brumby 1 CD (73 min.) Published by Jade Records — 22 July, 1994 [JADCD1082] Library shelf no. CD 2109	Full orchestra	Not for loan	$16.36	Add to cart
Score	Piano concerto no. 1 : piano reduction / Colin Brumby. 1 facsimile score (51p. -- B4 (portrait)) Published by Australian Music Centre Library shelf no. Q 785.6212/BRU 1	Duos: Piano duos	Available for loan	$186.36	Add to cart
Score	Piano concerto no. 1 / by Colin Brumby. 1 facsimile score (163p. -- B4 (portrait)) Published by Australian Music Centre Library shelf no. Q 784.262186/BRU 1	Full orchestra	Available for loan	$161.82	Add to cart
CD	Baroque angels : music of Australian composers / Colin Brumby ; Eric Gross ; Robert Allworth. 1 CD (73 min.) Published by Jade Records [JADCD1049] Library shelf no. CD 173	Full orchestra	Available for loan	$POA
Parts	Piano concerto no. 1 / by Colin Brumby. 1 set of performance parts Published by Australian Music Centre	Full orchestra	Not for loan	Hire Only

Work Overview

A work in three movements of which the first begins with an evocative introduction featuring a cantabile melody for the solo piano in octaves. This leads to the first theme of the exposition, an emotionally-charged eight-bar melody in C minor for the soloist. A transition leads to a romantic second theme in E flat. The development consists of secondary ideas, each of which vies for the foreground, before a rhetorical upward flourish announces the recapitulation. A brief cadenza preceding a terse coda concludes the movement.

The second movement, in expanded ternary-form, begins in A major which, as the raised submediant of the key of the first movement, further emphasises the romantic concepts underlying the work. The tender, bel canto-like melody of the opening is taken up by the orchestra before an extended, lyrical development leads to a contrasting theme of greater urgency. The bulding drama is resolved by the return of the opening theme, this time in D major, and the movement concludes peacefully.

The final movement is an extended rondo in which the energetic, opening theme is heard three times by way of providing structural stability to the movement. Between each statemenrt, however, this stablity is challenged by contrasting yet complementary ideas, before the work is brought to a climax in a brief but pressing coda.

Work Details

Year: 1984

Duration: 32-33 min.

Analysis

Program note: Colin Brumby's "Piano Conerto No. 1"
program note by the composer