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Concertino Gèminis

Materiales de orquesta de cuerda en alquiler

Violín y 15 instrumentos de cuerda

BENGUEREL, Xavier

Reg.: B.3430o

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  • Ensemble: String orchestra: With soloist(s).
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
  • Product format: Partitura + particellas
  • Difficulty level: Advanced-superior
  • Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Siglo XXI
  • No. of pages: 28+8
  • Measure: 29,70 x 21,00 cm
  • Lenght: 16'
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-0441-5
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: Yes

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The Geminis Concertino was written in 2005 and dedicated to Gerard Claret and the National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra (ONCA).

The work, as its name implies, is a small-scale concerto for violin and 15 string instruments. Its score is basically a chamber piece in which the solo part never takes an overly virtuoso role.

Conceived as a single movement, played without interruption, its internal construction consists of three "classic" sections:  A, bars 1-72, B, bars 73-161, and C, from bar 162 to the end of the piece.  Part B begins with the two opening measures of Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto simply as a reminder of a composer and a work that has impressed me since I was very young.

I should confess that the entire Geminis Concertino has a certain Bartokian air that I attribute to the love I have always professed for this composer and that lately seems to affect me much as it did in my youth. 

Xavier Benguerel
Barcelona, March 2006

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