Philip Ciantar
Fanfare for Orchestra
Short instrumentation: 3 2 2 2 - 4 3 3 1, timp, perc, str
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation details:
piccolo
1st flute
2nd flute
1st oboe
2nd oboe
1st clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in Bb
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
3rd horn in F
4th horn in F
1st trumpet in Bb
2nd trumpet in Bb
3rd trumpet in Bb
1st trombone
bass trombone
2nd trombone
tuba
timpani
percussion
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
double bass
Fanfare for Orchestra
Sample pages
Work introduction
Fanfare for Orchestra is a composition highly appropriate as an opening piece for an orchestral concert. The work builds round a theme announced by the brass section in the opening bars. Throughout the piece, this same theme passes through different phases and transformations that generate a range of emotions, from those which can be described as 'comical' to others which are more serious and intense. On the surface, the composition may be described as a show piece for orchestra. More profoundly though, the work celebrates life and the particular and collective aspirations of human beings in their search for the common good of mankind.
This composition was premiered in January 2009 by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra at the Presidential Palace in Valletta.