 [01/03/2010] - Romantic Concerto Grosso, for Solo Piano, String Quartet, and String Orchestra
The most recent work of Johnstone - the ROMANTIC CONCERTO GROSSO - has just been made available on the web of johnstone-music as a free download:
Direct link:
http://www.johnstone-music.co.uk/portada/free-music-scores/16/281/romantic-concerto-grosso-solo-piano-string-quartet-and-string-orchestra
Brief Notes -
This is a most unusual work for 3 instrumental forces; firstly the piano soloist which often has independent writing, then the solo string quartet, and finally the entire main grouping of string orchestra. All three spheres have plenty of interesting moments, the work not being as such a composition for piano quintet and orchestra, nor a kind of quintuple concerto. The main undertaking by the composer has been to combine the ideals of the Baroque Concerto Grosso with fully late-romantic writing.
The harmonies are generally fully and unashamedly romantic, perhaps making this an obvious natural coupling with the Elgar Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra.
Lasting some 14 minutes or so, the composition would be ideal either for the orchestral principal string players (plus the orchestral pianist!), or for more regular piano quartets/quintets who wish to have a concerto-like work in which to display their musicianship … but a most interesting addition to orchestral/chamber repertoire for the very many string quartets playing romantic repertoire who might wish to invite along a pianist friend and try something rather‘ different’ from the norm !
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