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July 2023 – 28th Innsbruck Promenade Concerts
Concerts 2023

July 2023 – 28th Innsbruck Promenade Concerts

Tickets and info: → Innsbrucker Promenadenkonzerte

Opening concert – 8 July 2023

19:30 Hrs

Hofburg – Innsbruck (Austria)

Royal Netherlands Army Band “Johan Willem Friso” – Tijmen Botma, conductor

Program: → (Re)Connected, and many more…

The National winner from South Tyrol – 21 July 2023

19:30 Hrs

Hofburg – Innsbruck (Austria)

Villnöß Wind Orchestra – Johann Pircher, conductor

soloists:

  • Bettina Delueg, Flute 
  • Alexa Volgger, Oboe 
  • Patrick Profanter, Clarinet 
  • Manfred Messner, Horn 
  • Birgit Profanter, Bassoon

Program: → Quintet #1 – Ewald, and many more…

Little Folksong Rhapsody
Music for Ensemble, Music for Soloist,

Little Folksong Rhapsody

InstrumentationWind quintet
Saz & Duduk
Grade4
Duration10 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score→ Download

…is based on 6 authentic Turkish and Armenian folk melodies as written / recorded by Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935). They are mostly songs taken from life and with a slightly melancholic character. The songs are about the different seasons, settling disputes, encouragement to dance and everyday activities such as visiting a market.

A special role is reserved for the Saz and the Duduk, two typical folk music instruments from Turkey and Armenia. The combination with Western wind instruments gives the work a special color and atmosphere, with the last movement having a rousing character.

Little Folksong Rhapsody was commissioned by wind ensemble Zuiderwind.

Also sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Also sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss

‘Also sprach Zarathustra!’, (‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’) is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra!’. The composer conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt.

The piece is divided into nine sections played with only three definite pauses. Strauss named the sections after selected chapters of Nietzsche’s novel highlighting  major moments of the character Zarathustra’s philosophical journey in the novel. The general storylines and ideas in these chapters were the inspiration used to build the tone poem’s structure.


The initial fanfare (‘Sunrise’) became well known after its use in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’  and was also often used as a portent of a significant event to come or regularly used for space-related scenes.

Publisher: → Baton Music

explanation text: © Baton Music