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RR Bennett: Concerto For Marimba & Chamber Orchestra (Marimba and Piano Reduction)
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RR Bennett: Concerto For Marimba & Chamber Orchestra (Marimba and Piano Reduction) by Richard Rodney Bennett Piano Accompaniment - Sheet Music

By Richard Rodney Bennett
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RR Bennett: Concerto For Marimba & Chamber Orchestra (Marimba and Piano Reduction) by Richard Rodney Bennett Piano Accompaniment - Sheet Music
Marimba and Piano - advanced

SKU: HL.14027934

Composed by Richard Rodney Bennett. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Softcover. Music Sales #NOV360061. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027934).

Is written in two movements. The slower opening movement is impressionistic and crystalline with the marimba serving as an obligate over the orchestral harmonies. Only in the two cadenzas does the marimba texture thicken, reminiscent of Bennett's earlier writing for solo marimba. The driving second movement features a molto ritmico theme for the marimba which is punctuated by the orchestra. The movement builds to a fiendishly difficult in temp cadenza where the marimba, in effect, becomes the entire orchestra. A brief echo of the first movement is heard which leads to the dramatic close of the piece. Concerto for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra was commissioned by William Moersch and New Music Marimba. The premiere took place on March 11, 1988 with the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra in Allentown, Pennsylvania with Mr Moersch as soloist.

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