related works
Speculum inversum : for soprano, ensemble and live electronics, 2000 / Martijn Padding
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr(perc) 2sax (trb ad lib.) perc el.g keyb el.cb electroncis
Twenty-Five : for symphony orchestra / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 6441 perc hrp pf str
Tre movimenti ostinati : per orchestra, opus 59, (1971-'72) / Léon Orthel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 3cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc pf str
Fasten Seat Belts! : Nightmare for orchestra / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b afg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb timp 3perc hp str
composition
Kier : symphony orchestra, 2005 / Martijn Padding
Author(s):
Padding, Martijn
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Conductor Jurjen Hempel asked me to write a composition for the opening of the concert. I interpreted the word Opening in two different ways. First as Jurjen meant it, as a beginning of something, as an overture. But Opening also means something that is not closed, something open, something ajar. This idea of music with a chink (Kier is the Dutch word) had a lot of influence on the form and the instrumentation of the piece. That's why you will hear a few windy holes in this overture. When all goes well, the fifty-seven score pages of Kier take only nine minutes to play. Nine minutes for a youth orchestra; an overture in which all orchestral divisions have their part and do what young musicians do so well: play fast! The structure of the music is a chain of up and down moving curves, whirling speedily through the whole orchestra. At first in clear, simple movements, later as dense constellations of curves together and echos of various instrumental groups. The only contrasts with
this orchestral whirling are the incidental breakouts of some instruments and the moments where the musicians come together again in large chords. - MARTIJN PADDING