Ian Schofield wrote this piece for his own flute students at South Downs College. Other eminent flautists have bought this piece for their own students, at conservatoires and especially at flute courses and summer schools, in the UK, Austria and The Netherlands.
Composer's note
In performance, flutes I, II & III should be separated slightly from players IV, V & VI to create an antiphonal effect.
Sample 1
Sample 2
Cost of music
Score & Parts: £14.40 or seperately
Score £7.50 ISMN: 979-0-7080-0529-2
Parts £6.90 ISMN: 979-0-7080-0530-8
(4 minutes)
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Concerto for Two Flutes and Strings
A concerto in three movements: i. Allegro vivace is an energetic chase-through-the-keys, with a beautiful respite given by the flutes in pastoral, long-line dialogue; ii. Adagio molto - yearning flutes, over reiterated sighs of the strings; iii. Allegro vivace - a playful canon from the strings introduces the flutes, exhilarating in tandem throughout.
Audio Clip
Cost of music
full-score: £8.50 ISMN: M 708005 32 2 (14 minutes)
(Instrumental parts are for hire only)
Overture: Spinnaker Tower for Wind Band
Ian Schofield wrote Porchester Castle (in recognition of the notable landmark near Portsmouth) for Highbury Area Band, in the 1980s. It was played several times, once as a competition piece in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London. The band was going to put it back in its repertoire when Ian Schofield offered to write a new piece, with a modern image, Spinnaker Tower, in honour of the stunning new landmark which was built in Portsmouth as part of the millennium celebrations.
The attributes of Portsmouth, represented in the tower itself: aspiration, achievement, elegance, joy, are all found in this music of Ian, along with architectural shape and tunes of cheeky resilience, rather like Portsmouth's omnipresent sailors. It is a stunning, strong piece.
Instrumentation
Original Scoring
picc, fl 1,2; cl B b 1,2,3, bass-cl B b; alto-sax 1,2, tenor-sax, bar-sax; bassoon;
horn F 1,2,3,4; tr B b1,2,3; tenor-trb 1,2, bass-trb; euphonium; tuba;
timpani (4); triangle, cymbals, wood-blocks, tambourine, glock.
Alternative Version
picc, fl 1,2; ob; cl B b 1,2,3, bass-cl B b; alto-sax1,2, tenor-sax, bar-sax; bassoon;
horn F; tr B b1,2,3; tenor-trb 1,2, bass-trb; euphonium; tuba;
timpani (4); triangle, cymbals, wood-blocks, tambourine, glock.
Duration: 7 minutes
Spinnaker Sample 1
Spinnaker Sample 2
Spinnaker Sample 3
Spinnaker Sample 4
Cost of music
Original scoring Score & Parts:£32.95 or seperately
full score£12.95 ISMN: 979-0-7080-0504-9
set of parts£20.00 ISMN: 979-0-7080-0531-5
Alternative verions Score & Parts:£32.95 or seperately
full score£12.95 ISMN: 979-0-7080-0536-0
set of parts£20.00 ISMN: 979-0-7080-0537-7
First performance: Alternative scoring; Barnet Youth Wind Orchestra, conducted by Ben Palmer, London, 2010
Also available - by special request :-
Isos for Flute and Piano - 10 minutes
Children's Cantatas: 1. Hammerfest; 2. The Lions' Tale - 25 minutes
By other publishers
Parodies and Paraphrases on L'Homme Armé for recorder orchestra - 13 minutes
'Schofield's writing showed clarity between the parts - a major factor for the enjoyment of recorder music - and brought the best out of the players. One movement, Eccentric March, made me visualise a comic troop of disaffected toy soldiers, put through their paces by Ballet Rambert!" - The News, Portsmouth
Performance
First performance: Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia, conducted by Christopher Burgess, Boxgrove Priory 2005.
Available on CD: 'Parodies & Paraphrases' Dinmore Records DRD098.
