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Berceuse héroïque : Arrangement for orchestra / Claude Debussy; arranged by Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2ob 2fg 4h 3tpt 3trb 2hp timp perc str
Concert Overture "Night Scenery Sketch" : for orchestra / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b timp gong dr-b hp str
Symphony : 'Sinfonia Cosmologica' / Bernard Benoliel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4fl/picc 2ob 3eh 2cl 2cl-b 3fg dfg 4h 4wagner 3tpt tpt-b 2trb-ten 2trb-b tb 2timp perc str
Nederlandse dansen : voor orkest, (1957) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4230 timp 2perc str
composition
Six épigraphes antiques / orchestrated for small orchestra by Rudolf Escher, 1975-1977, Claude Debussy
Other authors:
Escher, Rudolf
(Orchestrator)
Debussy, Claude
(Composer)
Contains:
Pour invoquer Pan, dieu de vent d'été
Pour un tombeau sans nom
Pour que la nuit soit propice
Pour la danseuse aux crotales
Pour l'Egyptienne
Pour remercier la pluie au matin
Description:
Program note (English): (First radio-performance: July 6, 1978 (broadcast 20 July) - Radio Kamerorkest, Ernest Bour, conducting; first concert performance: October 28, 1979 - Grote Zaal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam - Concertgebouworkest, Bernard Haitink, conducting).
In 1914, shortly before World War I and four years after his death in 1918, Debussy completed his Six épigraphes antiques, a suite of six short pieces for piano-four hands (...). The composition has a remarkable hasty texture and does not reveal a typical piano ornamentation; it is in certain sense already particel (score-design), which reveals a certain instrumental source on each page, the source of 'music for two harps, celesta and some woodwinds.' Especially the dominant place of the harps can be seen in the scores' written notes. Strengthened by the knowledge that Debussy (...) himself thought of an orchestration, I have considered my circumstances for the orchestration as a leading principle (...). - RUDOLF ESCHER