Walter Braunfels
Konzert
Short instrumentation: 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 1 0 - timp, b.d, str
Duration: 22'
Instrumentation details:
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
3rd trumpet in C
trombone (+bass tbn)
timpani
bass drum
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
double bass
Braunfels - Konzert for organ, boys' choir and orchestra
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In this romantic concerto, the solo organ is principally accompanied by the orchestral strings; the brass and percussion only appear in two chorales, as with Händel. Braunfels’ use of a boys’ choir, he said, “came about above all to add the finest crowning touch to the second movement, the central part of the piece. It is constructed as a large-scale chorale prelude, with the boys intoning the chorale at the end … I could not resist letting the boys add their voices again, singing another chorale at the close of the finale, a fantastical, towering double fugue.”