It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major.
Two important solo works nonetheless date from the Classical era: Joseph Haydn's Concerto in E-flat for trumpet and orchestra (1796) and Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto, also in E-flat (1803).
Gurney's Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major is featured on a CD, called Works for Violin and Piano, released by EM Records.
For classical music buffs, two pieces that work for him are Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, known as the "Eroica" symphony, and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
In total he wrote hundreds of pieces of music but his Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major was one of only five sonatas he finished, all of which are stored among 1, 347 items in a Gurney collection at Gloucestershire Archives.
"D-Man in the Waters" (1989), an often frantically busy exercise performed in Ms. Prince's olive-drab costuming to Mendelssohn's effervescent Octet for Strings in E-Flat Major, began life as a showcase honoring a company dancer then ravaged by AIDS. It remains a thin, derivative work that looks back here and there in its diving-to-the-stage energy to Paul Taylor's masterly, heart-pumping, Bach-inspired 1975 "Esplanade, " as well as to Mark Morris's evocative and momentous 1981 "Gloria" (to Vivaldi).
From the first throbbing bass notes by Boris Koslov in "Gunslinging Birds" to the animated trombone and vocals of Ku-umba Frank Lacy in "E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too, " and the roaring full-band choruses that close out "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, " the Mingus Big Band was on.
It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.
S. Bach (No.1 in D-Minor BWV 1052, and No.2 in E-Major, BWV 1053) framing W.A. Mozart's No. 12 in A-Major, K.414 and Johann Christian Bach's E-Flat Major Concerto Op.7 No. 5.
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