WARSAW CONCERTO

Piccolo

Flute 1-2

Oboe 1-2

English Horn

Bassoon 1-2

Clarinet in Eb

Clarinets (Bb) 1-2-3

Alto Clarinet (Eb) (optional)

Bass clarinet (Bb)

Soprano Saxophone (Bb)

Alto saxophones (Eb) 1-2

Tenor saxophones (Bb) 1-2

Baritone saxophone (Eb)

French horns (F) 1-2-3-4

Trumpets (Bb) 1-2-3-4

Flugelhorn (Bb) 1-2

Trombones (C) 1-2-3-4

Euphoniums (C) 1-2

Tubas (C)

Cello (optional)

Double Bass (optional)

Percussion:

- Timpani (4)

- Percussion 1; Vibraphone, Wood Blocks, Bongos

- Percussion 2; Marimba, Glokenspiel, Tubular Bells, Suspended Cymbal (Ride).

- Percussion 3; Tom-Toms (3), Snare drums, Tam-Tam (middle-sized), Metal Chimes, Triangle (small).

- Percussion 4; Bass drum, Tam-Tam (big), Suspended Cymbal (Crash), Suspended Cymbal (Sizzle), Triangle (Big), Rain Stick.

This work is intended as a tribute to the great Polish composer W. Lutoslawski. Hence its title; “Warsaw Concerto” (the composer’s home town).

Formally, the work is conceived as a concerto for symphonic band, where each movement pays its own particular homage to a compositional period in Lutoslawski’s creative corpus. In pursuit of this idea, throughout the work we find various techniques and processes commonly used by the author, such as the use of Polish folk melodies, the twelve-tone technique and serialism, chordal constructions by structured superposition of thirds, the cluster as an element to create texture, processes for controlled randomness, chain form and so on.

Movements:

I. Prelude and Fugue

II. Ricercare “in Chain form”

III. Interlude

IV. March, Choral and Postlude

Dedicated, with all my admiration and affection, to Andrés Valero-Castells