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Bernard Rands's Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra Debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra

Nov. 03, 2015

Bernard Rands's <em>Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra</em> Debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra performs the world premiere of Bernard Rands’s Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra on November 27 with soloist Robert Walters. Lionel Bringuier leads the premiere, which takes place at Severance Hall. 

Rands’s Concerto was commissioned by the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music for Robert Walters and The Cleveland Orchestra. Walters has taught English horn at Oberlin since 2006 and has been solo English horn with The Cleveland Orchestra since 2004. 

Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra is a three movement work with titles suggesting their character and form: ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Aubade’, and ‘Hommage.’ The third and final movement is a tribute to Debussy whose music has had a strong influence on Rands throughout his career. Debussy’s Jeux is a notable subtext to this movement. “Though no quotations from Debussy’s music are used,” Rands writes, “the spirit of Jeux is evoked – sometimes quite overtly and at other times rather mysteriously.”

Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique accompany Rands’s Concerto on the program. Subsequent performances take place November 28 and 29.

For details on the performance, visit clevelandorchestra.com. 

Visit schott-music.com for more information on Bernard Rands. 

Bernard Rands
Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra (2015)
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