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Capriccio, Op.54
Category | | Orchestral > Other Orchestral Works |
Composed | | 1991 |
Duration (approx) | | 20 minutes |
Parts | | 2 French horns, 12-15 strings (4.4.3.2.2 or 4.4.3.3.1 or 4.3.2.2.1)
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Recording(s) | | Dennis Brain - A Celebration | Publisher | | Faber Music | Commission | | Philharmonia Orchestra with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain
| First performance | | 20 May 1991 | Venue | | Wigmore Hall, London | Orchestra / Ensemble | | Philharmonia Orchestra | Conductor | | Norman del Mar | Review | | Meirion Bowen, The Guardian, 21 May 1991 | | | …offered a wealth of opportunities for horn virtuosity… no less rich in detail was its writing for divided strings, whose continual changes of focus captivated the listeners’ attention. The piece as a whole invoked Brain’s spontaneity and bubbling enthusiasm in a kind of Straussian serenade-like idiom which the still lamented hero of the horn would have relished.
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