Julien-François Zbinden

Concerto de Gibraltar

Julien-François Zbinden wrote this short spanish tinted Concerto de Gibraltar for piano, brass orchestra and percussion (instrumentation Roger Volet) for the Ensemble Romand d’Instruments de Cuivre (ERIC - attached to the broadcast Radio Suisse Romande).
The world premiere, on broadcast Radio-Lausanne, conducted by Roger Volet, was given October 8th 1959 with the composer on the piano and the ERIC. The same musicians played the work again on the 3rd of August 1961 in one of the first tv shows at the Television Suisse Romande.