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Title	Mercury Rising
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Original contemporary music (20th, 21st century)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band); CB (Concert Band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
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Series title	Elite Series
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Year of publication	2020
Composer	Sparke, Philip
Difficulty level	6
Duration	3:25
Additional info/contents	Mercury Rising was commissioned by the "sinfonisches blasorchester wehdel" and its conductor Thomas Ratzek on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2018. The premiere took place on 2 November 2018 at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. Mercury Rising was conceived as a virtuosic and lively opening piece and begins swingingly with driving, syncopated rhythms and a broad palette of sounds. The horns and saxophones play an extended melody, which is taken over by the trumpets after a key change. A quieter section follows in which muted horns - over the bubbling sixteenth notes of the low clarinets - play a distant-sounding fanfare. This passage is interrupted by an impassioned melody from the tenor instruments; shortly afterwards, however, it is played by the entire brass section, accompanied by echoes of the woodwind figurations from the beginning of the piece. All this finally leads to a triumphant conclusion. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob 1,2 EHrn Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3 AClr BClr CBClr//CtrFag SSax ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Cnt 1,2 Trp 1,2,3,4 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb 1,2,3 Euph Tub WltStm Vlc (opt.) KB Pno Tmp Perc 1,2,3,4
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	Format	EUR
	Mercury Rising (concert/wind band; Concert Band), full score and parts
	Mercury Rising (concert/wind band), full score
	Essential Philip Sparke, The, 4CD

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