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Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 1895 – 8 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music.
The concerto starts with the orchestra playing the opening bars of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, only for the pianist to enter with the opening of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. The rest of the concerto combines the two concertos into one, mixing with themes such as Pop Goes the Weasel and Roll Out the Barrell , ending with conductor ...
The Concerto for Horn and Strings is a concerto for horn and string orchestra in three movements by the English composer Gordon Jacob. The work was composed in 1951 for soloist Dennis Brain and premiered on 8 May 1951, with Jacob conducting the Riddick String Orchestra in Wigmore Hall, London. The piece has been regarded as one of the most ...
Trio op. 113 for horn, cello and piano; Alan Hovhaness "Artik", Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra, Op. 78; Yoshirō Irino. Globus I for Horn and Percussion (1971) Gordon Jacob. Concerto for Horn and Strings (1951) Leoš Janáček. Concertino; Knud Jeppesen. Little Trio in D major; Wojciech Kilar. Sonata for horn and piano; Volker David ...
The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann .
A number of concertos and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn) and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra.. English horn concertos appeared about a century later than oboe solo pieces, mostly because until halfway through the 18th century different instruments (the taille de hautbois, vox humana and the oboe da caccia) had the role of the tenor or alto ...
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 1 (1893) Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 23 (1905–07) Zygmunt Stojowski. Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 3 (1890) Piano Concerto No. 2 in A-flat, op. 32 (1909–10) Igor Stravinsky. Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1923-4) Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra; Movements for Piano ...
Theme and Four Variations for piano and strings (first UK performance, 1947) Gordon Jacob. Horn Concerto (first performance, 1951). Symphony for Strings, op.13 (first broadcast, 1945) John Lanchbery. Sinfonietta for strings (first performance, 1947) Bohuslav Martinů. Romanian Partita (premiere of string orchestra version, 1940) Alan Ridout ...