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piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon
6 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, contrabass trombone (or bass trombone), tuba
timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tam-tam, triangle, cymbal, bells (or tubular bells) (off-stage), glockenspiel,
celesta, harp, strings
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Difficulty: easy-medium. This 1st Symphony is the first great orchestral composition. Written in 2021 (and revised in 2024), it explores, with a romantic language, a narrative story from the dark lowest to the highest bright, like some of the biggest symphonies of all the time: Beethoven's 5th, Brahms' 1st or Mahler's 5th. The first movement, Allegro Moderato, confronts 2 big themes based on motifs where the primary theme shows a big darkness and chaos meanwhile the second one gives light to look for what we will find at the end of the symphony. Sonata form. The second movement is a landscape of what we can see or imagine what it is to be out of the world and enjoy the beautiful things that we can live on our own. As a counterpoint, the middle section moves us back to the world full of doubts. Finally, the joy emerges to give faith on what we believe it is beautiful. ABA form. The third movement is an Scherzo not in the exact canonic way. It is a dance fight between the good and the bad, kind of hell and heaven or chaotic and faithful thoughts. It starts with a folkloric theme turned into minor which becomes more and more dramatic. The Trio is the sunlight that clears the sky and gives faith and light to this dance. ABA form. The last movement, Finale, starts with a bell motif from Wagner's Parsifal, meaning the long path that it has to be wandered to find what we long for. The recurrent thoughts and doubts will be cleared by the power of music and the faith to get wherever we decide to go. This symphony ends triumphaly. Form: Adagio-Fuge-Rondeau.
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