Double Entendre by Chris C Sansom

Double Entendre for Piano and Stereophonic Brass Band

Full details at https://chrissansom.com/works/doubleentendre, but in the meantime...

'Double Entendre' dates from 1985 and is for 'piano and stereophonic brass band', so designated because the band (or most of it) is divided into two identical groups spaced wide apart, with dynamics used to achieve stereo effects such as sound moving from side to side. Because of their presence in odd numbers the soprano cornet, flugelhorn, bass trombone and one of the three tenor horns are left over from the symmetrical division and grouped round the piano in the centre. The piano part is extremely virtuosic and has indeed been performed three times: twice by Andrew Ball and once by Richard Casey. From the band perspective however, only one performance has really worked: the first, given by the students of the Royal Academy of Music, London, conducted by Harold Nash with Andrew Ball as soloist — but then they had the luxury of six months to rehearse it! I never got a recording of this although apparently one was made.

This, therefore, is my MIDI realisation of it - hyper-accurate, of course, but lacking a human dimension and therefore no substitute for the 'real thing'. In case you care about this kind of thing, the virtual instruments are from Sample Modeling (all the brass), with Modartt's excellent Pianoteq.