related works

Appalachia : for acoustic steelstring guitar and ensemble, 2004 / Giel Vleggaar

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl-a ob cl perc hp man vl vla vc cb g-solo

Bluebeard : Opera in three acts / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 6 soloists ob el.g g el.g-b perc 2vl vla vc

Memoria : voor sopraan en instrumentaal ensemble / Frank de Munnik; tekst van Federico García Lorca

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1121 1110 perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb

Starik i more (Old Man and the Sea) : for string orchestra / Vladimir Martynov

Genre: Unknown

composition

Falling Down : for clarinet, violoncello and piano, 2003 / Giel Vleggaar

Author(s):
Vleggaar, Giel (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Like many of his pieces Falling Down represents a slice of personal experience. Certainly not an unfamiliar one either: stumbling, falling, getting back up, brushing the dust off and looking around again. Vleggaar also wants to show the baffling nature of such blunders and the simultaneous frustration and comfort of the cycle. He describes a runner who discovers after many obstacles that he's still at the beginning of the race, but this time has a greater overview of the situation. After many detours nothing is what it was, and the same starting line takes on a completely different appearance. Written for Laura Carmichael's Trio Chiffre, the strength and sensitivity of the clarinet/cello/piano combination lend itself to this internal contemplation. - Teresa Hron