La Triomphante
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Couperin arr Eric Crees

La Triomphante

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Instrument: brass tentet (score and parts)
Grade: conservatoire
Catalogue No: AL008

Couperin was one of the most prolific keyboard composers of the French Baroque and his works were usually given evocative and descriptive titles. Battle music was very popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and Couperin's use of trumpet-like fanfares and repeated rhythmic figurations in 'La Triomphante' is typical of the genre.

This arrangement has considerably fleshed out Couperin's mainly two-part writing in order to achieve extra weight and grandeur. In the first movement the first three, and in the last movement all four, trumpet players can be spaced out behind the rest of the group to good aural and visual effect.
Eric Crees
Eric Crees is one of the most distinguished trombonists, arrangers and educators in the UK. He was Co-Principal Trombone in the London Symphony Orchestra for twenty-seven years and from 2000 until 2020 was Section Principal Trombone with the Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has played on many of the most iconic film tracks, including the first four 'Star Wars', 'Superman' 1&2, 'Harry Potter' 1,2&3, 'Braveheart', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and dozens more.

Eric has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London since 1977 and in 2014 was awarded two prestigious honours, Conferment to Professor at the Guildhall and the International Trombone Association's Neil Humfeld Award for Teaching Excellence. He is internationally recognised as a conductor and arranger of brass music at the highest level and has been the Musical Director of London Symphony Orchestra Brass and the Brass Soloists of the Royal Opera House and made seven CDs with them, mainly of his own compositions, arrangements and editions. He is now Artistic Director of his own group, The Symphonic Brass of London and has released two albums with them, 'A Bridge across the Pyrenees' and 'Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks'.


For more information see the two websites: ericcrees.co.uk
thesymphonicbrassoflondon.com
Instrumentation Sample

Sample: Fanfare

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