Category: Symphonic / Orchestral
Immortal tunes of old italian music...collected as precious diamonds in a concerto for Piccolo trumpet and Orchestra... A flight to the light with the brightness and weightlessness of a divine butterfly. There is a authentic recording with Reinhold Friedrich (trp), Münchner Symphoniker, conducted by Martín Baeza-Rubio.
Movements: Part I-III. - Motto: „Siam vermi, nati a formar l’angelica farfalla“
(We are worms, born to be a celestial butterfly )
Dante Alighieri, ex:“ Purgatorio“ X
Duration: 18 Minutes
Publisher of notes/sheet music: Strube-Verlag München , VS Nr. 7221 Version Trompete und Orchester , 2018
Instrumentation: Piccolo Trumpet in Bb
2 flutes / 2 bassoons / 2 french hornsin F /2 Trombones (T/B)
(also with 3 Horns and 1 trombone or Tuba)
Timpani (also playing Triangel) / percussion 1+2
Large String Orchestra (12-10-8-6-4)
Perc1: middle triangle, BassDrum, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Chimes, woodblocks
Perc 2: small triangle, Claves, Tamtam, 3 hanging yambals, (ad lib. one pair of hand cymbals), large TomTom
There is also available at Strube Musikverlag München a version for Piccolo Trumpet and Organ
Solo instruments: Trumpet
Introduction: „L’ANGELICA FARFALLA“
DIAMONDS LOST IN THE DARKNESS OF PAST
Concerto per tromba piccola & orchestra
Motto: „Siam vermi, nati a formar l’angelica farfalla“
(We are worms, born to be a celestial butterfly )
Dante Alighieri, ex:“ Purgatorio“ X
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Preface:
The music of ancient Italy holds a lot of eternally beautiful melodies, - like diamonds!
„L’angelica Farfalla“ rescues – in fragmentary rays of hope - such treasures from the darkness of history: the famous madrigal „Amarilli“ of the Florentine composer and singer Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), the „Adagio“ from the Oboe concerto by Alessando Marcello (1669-1747), the „Ombra mai fu“, part of the Dramma per musica „Serse“ by Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759). A furious Intermezzo is the Aria „Siam navi all’onde algenti“ from the opera Oper „L’Olimpiade“ by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).
The shining sound oft he piccolo trumpet is representing the bright life of the celestial butterfly, - who escaped the dark erth life oft he worm! The true destiny of man has to be – if we believe in Alighieri Dante’s „Purgatorio“ from his book „Divina comedia“: „Siam vermi, nati a formar l’angelica farfalla“ ....We are worms, born to change into a celestial butterfly.
Dedication: dedicated in friendship to Otto Sauter
Additional remarks: The Audioexamples of this site are performed by Reinhold Friedrich and Münchner Symphoniker, conducted by Martín Baeza-Rubio. Recorded in June 2021.
World premiere: 19.10.2018, Pirmasens/ Stadthalle
Performers at world premiere: Otto Sauter, Piccolo Trumpet, & Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg, conducted Juri Gilbo.
Records: SOLO MUSICA, January 2023, 2023
Performers on recording: Reinhold Friedrich (piccolo trumpet), Münchner Symphoniker, Martín Baeza-Rubio (conductor), recorded in June 2021
