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Hemke Concerto "Prisms of Light"
Orchestral recording: A Portrait of Augusta Read Thomas, tracks 3–6
Orchestral excerpt from the composer’s site
Historical wind ensemble arrangement (now withdrawn)
- Composed
- 2014
- Instrumentation
- Alto saxophone with orchestra; piano reduction also available
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer
- Duration
- approximately 22 minutes
Commissioned as a retirement gift for Frederick L. Hemke, this concerto was premiered by Hemke with the New Haven Symphony, conducted by William Boughton, on February 27, 2014.
Its four sections are Illuminations, Sunrise Ballad, Chasing Radiance, and Solar Rings. The orchestral recording appears on tracks 3–6 of A Portrait of Augusta Read Thomas.
The composer identifies the wind ensemble arrangement as withdrawn. The linked band video documents that earlier arrangement. Wise Music Classical also lists a piano reduction.
Source: Composer’s work page.