composer
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music; he won the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He became a full ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Opus A : voor symfonie-orkest en 8 concerterende celli, 1953 / Ary Verhaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4230 timp perc hp str 8vc-solo
Concerto Nº 5: The Forest in April : for cello and orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo 2fl(picc/fla) 2ob(eh) cl cl-b sax-s(sax-a) 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp 2perc hp cel str
Double Cello Concerto : for 2 amplified cellos and symphony orchestra / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
2vc-solo 3fl 3ob 3cl 2fg cfg 3tpt 4h 3trb(trb-b) tb 3perc hp pf str
composition
Rainbow concerto : for cello and orchestra, 2002 / Jacob ter Veldhuis
Description:
Program note (English): [Première: February 21, 2003 - De Doelen, Rotterdam - Marien van Staalen, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev, conducting] - While working on my Rainbow Concerto I often had to think of a horizon, an inaccessible 'there ' that never approaches. There is a vague desire sounding like 'elsewhere' in the first slow movement. Was this possibly that inaccessible paradise? Since I wrote in 2000, the oratorio video Paradiso with Jaap Drupsteen, I have been spellbound by paradise shows. Paradiso is a search for celestial beauty, to harmony, delight and ecstasy, referring to Dante. A fantastic world of eternal happiness, in which suffering and death are nonexistent. In a certain way there are paradise like rosy clouds hanging above this violoncello concert. 'Perpetuity' is sounding in the movement of intervals of seconds and with a total absence of dissonance. The work built up from two movements: a celestial adagio, which fluently proceed in an earthly allegro. My
credo as a composer is simple: I want to compose music that I gladly listen to. And therein, is the contemporary dissonance - that very well known calling card of modernism - hardly any room: it is for me a totally worn out expression tool. I associate the diatonic scale, of which I myself use, with the seven colours of the rainbow. Each of the seven tones has for me a very specific timbre. I frequently wrestle with the term melody: is a non-existent melody possible? Sometimes I concentrate on a single tone and try to elicit melodic inversions. From some of these tones musical 'arcs' arise, outlining contours like a rainbow. Already in 1979, I wrote an orchestral work with the title Rainbow variations. The rainbow obviously intrigues me. Just like music it is fleeting, and in fact an illusion. But I gladly leave these thoughts to the philosophers. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS