Fantasia Concertante

The Contemporary Recorder/ Series Editor John Turne

*Contemporary Concerto* in a single movement. The title suggests both the concerto nature of the work, and its nature as a fantasia, being both free-form and improvisatory in nature. Includes composer biography.

*Fantasia Concertante*
1. _Andante/Allegro/Andante/Allegro con brio/Andante_

Composer Peter Aviss was born in Croydon in 1950. His compositions encompass many genres and include a large scale dramatic cantata, a harp concertino, a recorder sonata as ell as other choral, instrumental and educational works. 

The title Fantasia Concertante suggests both the concerto nature of the work and its nature as a fantasia, this being the Italian word for s 'fancy', being both free form and improvisatory in nature.  The English fancies or fantasias were single movement works often for string chamber groups. 

_Score 16 pp. Part 6 pp._