Name: Boyle, Rory: Rapscallion
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Boyle, Rory: Rapscallion

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Arrangement: concerto for clarinet and wind orchestra
Edition Information: perusal score (A4)
Edition Type: Score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-rb6r1
Pages: 56
Date Published: 19th Jun 2023

A Rapscallion is defined variously as a disreputable person, a rascal or a rogue, and it is the last two of these that are portrayed by the soloist in this concerto which is in 3 main sections played without a break. The rebellious soloist is first heard offstage before attempting to entice the orchestra to join in with the roguish high spirits. It is the orchestral clarinets which succumb for a while, but even they lose patience and the soloist is eventually overpowered. For the central slow section, the soloist is physically and emotionally isolated from the orchestra, the lonely and lamenting nature of the music reflecting the fact that the concerto was written during the first lockdown of the 2020 Covid pandemic. In the final section there is more of a reconciliation between soloist and orchestra for a while, but the rascal will not be squashed and ends the work in the same raucous way with which it had started. The concerto is dedicated to Fraser Langton and marks a decade of the composer/player association with quotes from two of the previous works written for this exciting clarinettist, Burble for solo clarinet, and Dramatis Personae for clarinet and piano.

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