Concerto da Camera - III. Allo, furioso e molto energetico

Performed by the Thomas Picton String Orchestra

Soloist - Philip Howells

Since I haven't uploaded anything piano-related for such a long while, I have decided to upload something new/fresh just to keep the fans & subscribers occupied. This must be the first video I have uploaded of my performing capabilities outside just piano, as this is one of my performances I was most proud of, since this was my final year in Secondary School. To cut a long story short, this performance was provided after a local music competition I have competed in as an honor of me winning the competition overall. Special thanks goes to the composer, Paul Sarcich for composing a concerto suitable for my repertoire, for sending me a Marimba duet score via post and giving me great permission to allow this video to be posted on Youtube. I will look forward to performing more of his pieces in the future.
Also, feel free to give me constructive criticism or any comment on improving my musicality!
NOTE: There is no lack of focus in this movement luckily but the camera does tend to zoom in and out in random spots. This is however a minor issue to worry about so you can tend to ignore it for the time being.

This particular Concerto da Camera was composed by Paul Sarcich in 1987-88. The rest of the programme notes about this piece is referenced below:

This piece was written to be a challenging but approachable piece without demanding a mountainous percussion setup and full orchestral accompaniment. The percussion instruments are carefully chosen to provide variety within a relatively compact collection. Two keyboards and two timpani complement an eight-drum collection with some added smaller instruments.

The final movement is derived from certain aspects of rock music, with the opening tomtom passage setting up a figure for the strings based on irregularly accented semiquavers. The second subject is a slower march-like contrast to this, both subjects featuring intricate xylophone work, and the two sections alternating until a coda sums things up with "fills", so beloved of drummers near the end of a piece!

For those who are not familiar with the composer in general, please follow the biography via URL:
http://www.paulsarcich.com/

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