Guy Ropartz's Two Pieces for Wind Quintet (Deux pièces pour quintette à vent) is a composition for wind quintet composed in 1924, published in 1926 by Durand, and first performed in 1927.[1][2] In 1978 it was recorded on LP by the Boehm Quintette for the Orion label, along with wind quintets by Irwin Bazelon and Franz Danzi.[3] In a review of the recording in Fanfare, Joel Flegler described the work as "pleasantly innocuous, in that well-crafted, inconsequential way of every French wind work I've ever heard."[4] The piece also appears on the 1998 CD, Woodwind: The Danish Wind Quintet.
Structure
editThe work is scored for a quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn and is structured in two movements of differing tempos :
- Lent (slow). Duration: 4 minutes, 42 seconds[5]
- Vif (lively). Duration: 4 minutes, 56 seconds
References
edit- ^ Clark, David Lindsey (1999). Appraisals of Original Wind Music: A Survey and Guide, p. 363. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 031330906X
- ^ Le Figaro (30 May 1927). "Chronique de T. S. F.", p. 6.
- ^ OCLC 16105103
- ^ Flegler, Joel (1979). Fanfare, Volume 3, Issues 1-3, p. 29
- ^ Durations are based on Woodwind: The Danish Wind Quintet (1998). Fønix Musik CD FMF 1145. OCLC 874493724.
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