Alexander Wassiljewitsch Mossolow
Konzert
Short instrumentation: 1 1 1 1 - 2 1 1 0 - timp, perc, str
Duration: 23'
Dedication: Herrn N. Malka zugeeignet
Instrumentation details:
flute (+picc)
oboe
clarinet in A
bassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
trumpet in A
trombone
timpani
percussion (triangle, cymbals, tam-tam, military drum, bass drum)
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
contrabass
Mossolow - Konzert for piano and orchestra
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Alexander Wassiljewitsch Mossolow
Mossolow: Konzert - op. 14Orchestration: for piano and orchestra
Type: Solostimme(n)
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Work introduction
There are traces of American
jazz in the slow sections of the concerto’s first movement, whereas the con moto parts are evocative of the
world of machinery – a favourite subject of cultural interest in the 1920s. The
second movement is wonderfully original – swinging theatre music, now abstract,
now richly suggestive, in a way Mossolov’s teacher Prokofiev would have liked. The
third movement is excited and exciting, its rhythms hugely compelling, rousing
and virtuosic.