Concertante (Piano Solo with Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Gregson, Edward

This work was written in 1966, when I was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. It was the first major work to be written for this combination. The Concertante is unashamedly romantic in idiom and is cast in three movements: Prelude, Nocturne and Rondo.The Prelude is in sonata form with a contracted recapitulation. There are two main themes, the first announced after the opening flourish on piano. The second theme is lyrical in character and the interplay between these two themes forms the main focus of the movement.The pensive Nocturne opens with an introduction from the band which contains hints of the two main ideas to follow. The solo piano announces the main theme, which has a slightly 'blues' character in its flattened third and seventh notes of the scale. The band enters with the chorale theme already heard in the introduction. Eventually the first theme returns, this time from piano and band and building to a powerful climax before subsiding to a peaceful ending.The Rondo is full of energetic rhythms and changing time patterns. The main theme is 'giocoso' in character and in the first episode there is more than a hint of the tune 'Onward Christian Soldiers' in what amounts to a good humoured parody. Before the final coda there is a long piano cadenza underlying the virtuoso element of the work.The work had a number of public performances leading up to a memorable one in the Royal Albert Hall in 1989 as part of the Gala Concert that used to be held after the National Brass Band Championship in the Royal Albert Hall. That year, the 'centre band' in the massed bands concert were the GUS Band (then known for sponsorship reasons as 'Rigid Containers Group Band'!) conducted by my great friend and champion, Bramwell Tovey, with myself as the soloist.- Edward GregsonDuration: 18.00

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Concertante for Band (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Bulla, Stephen

Duration: 13.30

Concertino (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Lane, Philip

Includes:Fantasy - divisionsNocturneScherzetto

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Concertino (Brass Band - Score only) - Lane, Philip

Includes:Fantasy - divisionsNocturneScherzetto

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Concertino (Eb Horn Solo with Brass Band -Score and Parts) - Wood, Gareth

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CONCERTINO CATALONIA (Brass Band) - Bates, Jonathan

Composed for the Flowers Band, this fiery paced Spanish showpiece stays true to the 'concertino' name by featuring many sections within the band. Percussion gives the piece its rhythmic drive, whilst there are a number of individual contributions, starting with euphoniums and baritones, before moving to flugel/solo horn and finally through to the cornets.Duration: 2:15 Grade: Intermediate-Difficult

CONCERTINO CLASSICO (Trumpet or Cornet Duet/Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Horovitz, Joseph

Recorded on Polyphonic DPRL901D Joseph Horovitz (The Brass Band Music of)

CONCERTINO CLASSICO (Trumpet or Cornet Duet/Brass Band - Score only) - Horovitz, Joseph

Recorded on Polyphonic DPRL901D Joseph Horovitz (The Brass Band Music of)

Concertino For Brass Band (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Downie, Kenneth

This music, in its original four movement form called 'Concerto for Brass Band', was commissioned by Brass Band Treize Etoiles from Switzerland as an own-choice test piece. For its use as the test piece for the Championship Section of the 2008 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain it was specially published without the second movement Scherzo (available separately) as 'Concertino for Brass Band'.

Concertino For Brass Band (Brass Band - Score Only) - Downie, Kenneth

This music, in its original four movement form called 'Concerto for Brass Band', was commissioned by Brass Band Treize Etoiles from Switzerland as an own-choice test piece. For its use as the test piece for the Championship Section of the 2008 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain it was specially published without the second movement Scherzo (available separately) as 'Concertino for Brass Band'.