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3e Sinfonie, opus 19 / C.A. Fodor
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1222 2200 timp str
Hymne : for harmony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 3ob 2fg 4cl sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b 4h 3trp 3trb bar 3tb 5perc cb
Ouverture : voor orkest, (1954) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4331 timp perc str
Gedaantewisseling : for oboe, horn and tuba / Arend Gerds
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
ob h tb
composition
Malpaís con campanas : for large orchestra, 1997-2000, revision 2005 / Gustavo A. Trujillo
Description:
Program note (English): Malpaís con Campanas is based on a childhood remembrance, a landscape in Las Manchas (La Palma, Canary Islands): a still fresh lava stream surrounding a small, white spared chapel, whose bells are ringing in the desolated silence. The painful sound of the bells, with all its ritual connotations, defies the violent, powerful volcanic nature.
The ringing of the bells is an inseparable part of the popular culture of the Canary Islands. Its sound, full of meanings and nuances, remains a witness of past times, when bells were, in the vast malpaís, the announcers of life and death.
In Malpaís con Campanas six different bell-rings are used.
The ringing of the bells is like fresh lava streaming down the mountain. It fills every thing with its unbearable, unmistakable sound and suddenly dies away on coming to the sea. Behind remains only the silence, the malpaís waiting to be covered with new bell sounds, the bells hoping to survive the malpaís. - GUSTAVO A. TRUJILLO