Two Daydreams for Woodwind Quintet

By: Arthur Sullivan
For: Wind quintet
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Composer
Arthur Sullivan
Year of composition
1867
Arranger
Year of arrangement
2023
Difficulty
Difficult (Grades 7+)
Duration
6 minutes
Genre
Classical music
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Day Dreams is a collection of six solo piano miniatures the young Arthur Sullivan published in 1867. The pieces amply demonstrate a natural melodic gift that would reach full fruition in the enduring comic operas Sullivan wrote with W.S. Gilbert.

This is a contrasting pair of Daydreams, numbers 2 and 6, arranged for woodwind quintet. The first Daydream, "Robert and Clara," is an expressive cantabile aria that evokes the music of Robert Schumann. The oboe, clarinet, and horn sing the complete melody, but everyone gets at least a fragment of it. (This selection is great for weddings and church services as well as for the concert hall.) The second, "À l'Hongroise," is the flashy finale of the Day Dreams collection. It's a spirited Hungarian-inspired dance with a chromatic melody in shifting tonality, with harmonic turns audacious enough to thrill even 21st century listeners, culminating in a wide-ranging arpeggio passage for the four woodwinds. Both selections are transposed up half a step from the original keys of D major and f-sharp minor.

Arranged for "advanced" players, the two selections make a great concert opener, closer, or encore.

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