Stravaganza. Carlos Pellicer Anderes

V-970-2024

Although the bandoneon is an instrument born in Europe, speci?cally in Germany, it is inevitable not to associate its characteristic sound with the most representative music of the Rio de la Plata, in the southern cone of the South American continent. The currently best-known repertoire throughout the world is evidence of the relative youth of the instrument and its roots in this part of the planet.

But despite the immense possibilities that this instrument has, the repertoire for string orchestra and especially for wind orchestra is still very scarce. Even more so the repertoire with original compositions written in concert format for this instrument as soloist and band formation, and not other more popular, well-known and commonly adapted or arranged musical genres or styles.

Stravaganza is a double concert focused on exploiting to the maximum the possibilities of the trumpet but above all of the bandoneon, without any fear or prejudice of being able to play a demanding role as on countless other occasions other more common instruments play. A role to demonstrate the wide expressive, technical and musical spectrum, in short, that this instrument can offer, all without losing sight of the unmistakable references that have traditionally nurtured it: recognizable musical melodies, rhythmic sequences and South American essence.

The role of the trumpet is a pure exercise in contrast between two musical conceptions that both solo instruments play in most of the work, although at some points they come together in the same way, delivered to an 'extravagant' conjunction. And both predominant instruments are always well supported by the rest of the wind orchestra, with the intention of taking advantage of its most powerful, unique sound possibilities, and that differentiate it from the rest of the instrumental formations. On this occasion tradition, contrast and originality try to go hand in hand from start to ?nish.

Stravaganza is a commission from the Confederación Española de Sociedades Musicales - CESM (Spanish Confederation of Musical Societies), carried out in 2022.