Xavier Pagès i Corella - Works - Despertaferro, for orchestra

Xavier Pagès i Corella | Conductor and composer

| Despertaferro, for orchestra (2005)

Other titles | Despertaferro, per a orquestra (Catalan) — Despertaferro, para orquesta (Spanish).

Instrumentation | Symphony orchestra (1 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 fagots, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 2 timbales, 1 additional percussionists (triangle, crash cymbals, 1 side drum, 1 little tambour, tam-tam), strings).

Duration | 9 minutes.

Premiere

| Auditorium of Sant Cugat del Vallès — Barcelona (Spain) | 24th of April of 2005.
| Sant Cugat Symphony Orchestra, Josep Ferré (conductor).

Comments

| This work is titled like the Almogàvers war shout. It is made in two sections: the first one, a slow introduction, describes the farewell of the warriors. The second one, more rhythmical, describes a battle between the Almogàvers and the Turkish. After a big climax which represents the Almogàvers victory over the Turkish, the themes which correspond to the Turkish disappear, representing its defeat.
| Orchestration of the original version for three coblas.

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On-line

| Philharmonic Orchestra of Mendoza, Xavier Pagès (conductor).
| 27th of June of 2008 — Independencia Theater (Mendoza, Argentina).

| Score edited by the author (download pdf).