I have just completed my first "major" work, a three movement, 18 minute concerto for soprano sax and strings. It's due to be performed in September, so I'd be very grateful if anyone felt like giving me some constructive criticism...being as 5 months is plenty of time to make any changes
This piece was written over the course of about 4 months, so there's quite a few different influences. The first movement's main theme was inspired by some of Gerald Finzi's works, while the middle section is shamelessly neo-classical! The 2nd movement owes alot to Poulenc (namely his clarinet sonata, 2nd mvt,). As for the 3rd movement...even I'm not totally sure where that came from! I was kind of trying to emulate the sort of Rondo form that's in the last movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto, and then mixed it with a bir of Dave Brubek! Plus I added in an improvised cadenza: something which has been sadly lacking since the end of the classical period.
Anyway...any kind of comment would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrew Hopper