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Symphonie nr. 10 : 1961 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob ob(eh) 2cl cl-b 2fg 3h 2trp 3trb tb timp 2perc cel str
Concerto : for Harp and Orchestra / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
hrp orch
Musica per una festa : per orchestra, (1936), (revisione anno 1953) / Daniel Ruyneman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 3321 timp perc cel hp str
Chronometer : for piano / Svitlana Azarova
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
composition
Malpaís con campanas : for large orchestra, 1997-2000, revision 2005 / Gustavo A. Trujillo
Author(s):
Trujillo, Gustavo A.
(Composer)
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