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Suite for 4 trombones

Suite for four trombones (1953)

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Juliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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WJuliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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Juliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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Juliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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Juliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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Juliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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Juliusz Pietrachowicz, Stanisław Pierożek, Jerzy Golka, Jerzy Karolak – trombones, Warsaw 1976

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Suite for 4 trombones – score cover

Suite for 4 trombones
Suite for 4 trombones
Suite for 4 trombones

Suite for 4 trombones
Suite for 4 trombones

The work was commissioned by Juliusz Pietrachowicz’s trombone quartet wanting to add contemporary music to its repertoire. What emerged was a composition full of unassuming charm, elegance and humour. There are many links to the neo-classical aesthetics, but the work is decidedly non-formulaic, dominated by its author’s exuberant personality and folk tone, treated “with tongue in cheek”.

Suite consists of seven parts arranged in accordance with the principle of alternating fast and slow tempi: I. Intrada,  II. Canon, III. Interlude, IV. Chorale, V. Intermezzo, VI. Arietta, VII. Toccatina. The fast parts are dazzling, playful and introduce many interesting rhythmic ideas. The slow parts are more regular in terms of rhythm, but more varied in terms of texture (e.g. Canon with its model polyphony, the chord-based Chorale or the homophonic Arietta).

Just like his Concerto for trombone, Serocki’s Suite is still part of the standard trombone repertoire today, often featured in concert programmes.

 
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  • Tadeusz A. Zieliński,O twórczości Kazimierza Serockiego [On Kazimierz Serocki’s Oeuvre], Kraków 1985.

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Sheet music available from: PWM