This work is subtitled Prelude and Transfigurations for Brass, Wind and Percussion. It is derived from Wagner's Prelude to his opera Tristan and Isolde and consists of a series of tableaux-mood pictures which alternate between a romantic idiom and tritone-style aggressive music. The work is cast as a prelude and ensuing set of fourteen variations and is meant to be played as a continuous piece.
Grade 5
Performance time 16'25''
Recorded on QPRM152D MOSAIC: Great British Music for Wind Band Vol.13 (Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra)
