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thomas adès: concerto conciso (1997) The work is scored for solo piano and an ensemble of ten players, comprising clarinet, baritone saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, 3 violins and double bass. It is in two movements. The first was originally entitled "Study for a Coda." The second has two parts: firstly, a slow "ciacconetta," which runs through six divisions upon a seven-bar chord sequence announced by the piano; secondly, a fast "brawl" in a tonality discovered by an unexpected resolution of the last cycle of the "ciaconnetta." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes the mediaeval English dance which this section might evoke (from the French "branle") as a form of round-dance: "the linked dancersÖface inwards to the center of an arc, or full circle, moving sideways to the left and the right." Thomas Adès
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