Score
Cloudscapes : for brassquintet / Alex Turley.
Library shelf no. 785.915/TUR 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
This work was commissioned by my friends at Golden Gate Brass, a quintet formed at The Australian National Academy of Music. They asked me to write something that 'didn't sound like regular brass repertoire', a delightfully vague challenge that I accepted with gusto. The piece I eventually came up with rests on blurred, shifting textures in multiple temporalities. It asks the players to play in a sweet and lyrical manner. I also endeavoured to give each of them a nice solo.
This piece is an interesting precursor to my later work 'Mirage', which uses a lot of the same techniques.
Work Details
Year: 2018
Instrumentation: Horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba.
Duration: 8 min.
Difficulty: Medium
Commission note: Commissioned by Golden Gate Brass and premiered at St Luke's Church in South Melbourne, December 2018
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