Roller Coaster

Instrumentation: Cornet Eb - 4 solo Bb Cornets 1,2,3,4 - 5 Bb Cornets 5,6,7,8,9 - Fluegelhorn Bb - 3 Eb Horns - 2 Bb Baritones - 2 Trombones - Bass Trombone - 2 Eb Basses - 2 Bb Basses - Percussion: Drum set, Glockenspiel, Marimba, Vibraphone

Roller Coaster is the second work written by Hungarian composer Roland Szentpali for the traditional Brass Band instrumentation with two (spicy) solo euphonium parts (or two tenor saxophones, or two trombones, or any combination thereof).

This brief piece, with a duration of approximately five minutes and thirty seconds, is a formidable musical and technical firework that reflects the unbridled imagination and skills of the talented Roland Szentpali.

This work is similar to the previous one, also written in 2017 (Concerto for Brass Band), in that it is conceived and articulated in an elegant style of contemporary jazz. Szentpali effectively utilizes the resources of the brass band and its percussion instruments to accompany the elegant Roller Coaster-like bucking and weaving around of the two soloists…