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Euphonium Solo with Brass Band Accompaniment- Andrea Price
Composed in 2014 for Black Dyke principle euphonium Gary Curtin, Eire Time
weaves together three traditional Irish folk tunes in a lively and virtuoso celebration of all things Irish.
The work opens with Star of Munster
, a playful but tricky reel with a real foot-tapping lilt to the accompanying parts. The middle movement, The Leaving of Liverpool
, is a lyrical slow melody that tells of travel and homesickness and here the band sensitively supports the soloists soaring countermelody. A percussion interlude leads us into the finale, a fast romp through the fiendishly difficult Drowsy Maggie
, a real classic of the genre.
