Anze Rozman
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a nice new year's eve!
On 11th of December of 2015 I had performed my piece Phoenix for flute and orchestra by flutist Eva-Nina Kozmus and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
The piece was originally written for Eva-Nina Kozmus in 2010 for flute and piano and has since been my most performed work. I then did the first orchestration of the piece in 2013 and then another version in 2014 and the final version in August 2015. I desperately wanted to get the piece performed and it took me 2 years of sending the score to orchestras to finally get it on stage. The original flute and piano version can be heard here:
https://tinyurl.com/z7vakgv
About the piece:
This is a four movement rhapsodic piece that talks about the life cycle of the Phoenix. I had a specific story in mind when writing each movement, but I would rather keep it to myself and have every listener come up with his or her own story. But the names of the movements pretty much speak for themselves. I kept the structure, melodic lines and harmony almost exactly the same as in the original piano and flute version, so this truly is an orchestration of my own work. Keep in mind, that the flute was sadly a lot less heard in the live performance since some of my orchestration was too big, so I do plan to make another version. On the first orchestral rehearsal I have already taken out a lot of orchestral parts to make the flute come out more. Please also take into account, that this is not meant to be a flute concerto, but more a story where the flute has the role of the Phoenix itself and the orchestra is creating the world in which the Phoenix lives in.
Sadly the conductor did not prepare for the performance one bit and conducted the score avista on the first rehearsal. He also got most of the tempos wrong...which is really really sad. I especially hate how he did not conduct my tempos in the fourth movement.....But...that's life
Hopefully I will have it performed again in the future....
Please note my comment above about taking out some orchestration at the first rehearsal, since the score still has those parts in.
Thank you for listening and of course comments are welcome.
MUSIC:
VIDEO:
SCORE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BydLCxP-ZgaMVGsyODlnSmQwLUk/view
On 11th of December of 2015 I had performed my piece Phoenix for flute and orchestra by flutist Eva-Nina Kozmus and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
The piece was originally written for Eva-Nina Kozmus in 2010 for flute and piano and has since been my most performed work. I then did the first orchestration of the piece in 2013 and then another version in 2014 and the final version in August 2015. I desperately wanted to get the piece performed and it took me 2 years of sending the score to orchestras to finally get it on stage. The original flute and piano version can be heard here:
https://tinyurl.com/z7vakgv
About the piece:
This is a four movement rhapsodic piece that talks about the life cycle of the Phoenix. I had a specific story in mind when writing each movement, but I would rather keep it to myself and have every listener come up with his or her own story. But the names of the movements pretty much speak for themselves. I kept the structure, melodic lines and harmony almost exactly the same as in the original piano and flute version, so this truly is an orchestration of my own work. Keep in mind, that the flute was sadly a lot less heard in the live performance since some of my orchestration was too big, so I do plan to make another version. On the first orchestral rehearsal I have already taken out a lot of orchestral parts to make the flute come out more. Please also take into account, that this is not meant to be a flute concerto, but more a story where the flute has the role of the Phoenix itself and the orchestra is creating the world in which the Phoenix lives in.
Sadly the conductor did not prepare for the performance one bit and conducted the score avista on the first rehearsal. He also got most of the tempos wrong...which is really really sad. I especially hate how he did not conduct my tempos in the fourth movement.....But...that's life
Hopefully I will have it performed again in the future....Please note my comment above about taking out some orchestration at the first rehearsal, since the score still has those parts in.
Thank you for listening and of course comments are welcome.
MUSIC:
VIDEO:
SCORE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BydLCxP-ZgaMVGsyODlnSmQwLUk/view
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