Product Description
Considered
one of the master standard works for Concert Band, this piece is a symphonic
poem that evokes the religious journey of purification for those
awaiting the universal judgment before receiving final blessedness.
The music follows this progression with alternating sections of hardships
(heavy brass parts), hope (high woodwinds frequently representing angels),
and joy (also woodwinds and including lyrical brass parts), and ends with a
triumphant conclusion representing final blessedness.
Camillo de Nardis (1857 1951) was born in Orsogna, Italy.
He studied at the Conservatory of Naples, where he gained his diploma of
composition in 1879. He stayed at the Conservatory to become first a popular
teacher and later vice-director. His work as a composer of mostly instrumental
works earned him many successes.
This piece was originally written for an orchestra
composition contest where it won first prize in Turin in 1880. In 1934. The
style of the work is very much in classical Italian Opera with instrumentation
that is heavy on the use of brass. Sudden fluctuations in dynamics and sections
of fugue are used that unify the woodwinds and the brass. In 1934, Antonio
Cafarella prepared a transcription of this work for the Goldman Band and it has
been performed numerously many times ever since.
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