SERENADE FOR WIND OCTET op.419 (October 1990) Listen to this Work

Commissioned by: Seaton Festival
Instrumentation: 2ob,2cl,2hn,2bn
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Duration: 15 mins
First Performance: The Camerata Soloists, Seaton Music Club 13.12.1990
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Movements

• 1: Grazioso 6 minutes 30 seconds
  
• 2: Serioso (come una marcia lente) 4 minutes 30 seconds
  
• 3: Molto Vivace, Capriccioso 3 minutes 40 seconds
  

Notes

Composer's note: The clarinettist Janet Hilton requested I should write a woodwind octet and this work was expressly composed for her own group 'The Camerata Soloists'.

Number 19 of the collection 'Lifecycle' is a transcription of the second movement for piano.

Performances

13th March 2007	Janet Hilton directs RCM Woodwind Ensemble, Bishopsgate Institute, lunchtime concert series (with works by Malcolm Arnold and Jonathan Dove)
1st November 2006	Michael O'Donnell, Bryony Middleton (ob) Kimon Perry, Andrew Stainer(cl) Andrew Watson, Cory Barger(fg), Sam Pearce, Andrew Weber(hn)directed by Janet Hilton, 49 Queen's Gate Terrace, London
26th March 1994	Camerata Wind Soloists, Nicholas Yonge Society, Lewes Tertiary College
15th December 1990	Camerata Soloists, Seaton Music Club

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