The musical compositions of Richard Burdick
                                    1 star rating                  Follow on Twitter

                                                                             Opus 60

Concerto for two horns
for 2 horn and chamber orchestra

  Written March - July 1991

Contact us for a free study score

Concerto for two horns opus 60
Four contrasting movements all in the same tempo.

Written during my years as fourth horn of Sacramento Symphony and written with Cameron Kopf and myself in mind as soloists, this work has never been performed.

During rehearsals I read through the entire huge two volume set of The Schillenger system of music composition. Joseph Schillinger’s (1895-1943) greatest claim to fame was that he was the composition teacher of George Gershwin. The highlights of Mr. Schillenger’s teachings are organization, geometric expansion or contraction, symmetry and structure.

This double concerto is thoroughly inspired by Schillenger.

The highlight of the this composition is the third movement in a minuet trio form with a fast obstinate section in the strings and difficult horn parts with lots of trill. A fabulous movement!

The down side is a ponderous 4th movement with a difficult fugue and intermezzi with almost random quarter notes repeated throughout the orchestra (it might work) but a nice choral  section. It ends almost in a maestoso endings. I am not much of a fan of maestoso endings.

The score is 139 pages long the 2nd movement starts on page 30, the third on page 56 and the fourth on page 86. The work is almost twenty minutes long.

Share This on Twitter      Share This Link on Facebook

I Ching Music's divider @ Richard Burdick 2020

Contact us for more information.

Richard Burdick's Concerto for two horns, m.1Richard Burdick's Concerto for two part one

Richard Burdick's Concerto fro twoRichard Burdick's Concerto for two part two

Richard Burdick's Concerto for two partRichard Burdick's Concerto for two part three

ASCAP

I Ching Music's divider @ Richard Burdick 2020

Contact us for more information.

 

 

 

 

Search I Ching Music:

Opus 59Opus TourOpus 32
CD47CD47CD46CD46CD45CD45 CD44CD44 CD43CD43 CD42CD42 CD41CD41 CD40CD40 CD39CD39 CD38CD38 CD37CD37 CD36CD36 CD35CD35 CD34CD34 CD33CD33 CD32CD32 CD31CD31 CD30CD30 CD29CD29 CD28CD28 CD27CD27 CD26CD26 CD25aCD25a CD25CD25 CD24CD24 CD23CD23 CD22CD22 CD21CD21 CD20CD20CD19a CD19a CD19CD19 CD18 CD18 CD17aCD17a CD17CD17 CD16 CD16 CD15CD15 CD14CD14 CD12CD12 CD9 CD9 CD8 CD8 CD7 CD7 CD6CD6CD5CD5 CD2 CD2 CD1 CD1