related works

Pretty beautiful : for 12 wind instruments / Giel Vleggaar

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb 2fg cfg sax-a sax-t

Duels : for two violins, 1983 / Nico Hermans

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: 2vl

Chant and madrigal : uit "Chamber music", voor sopraan en 11 instrumenten, 1983 / Daan Manneke

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr fl ob cl fg h pf 2vl vla vc cb

Dickinson Songs : for mezzo-soprano and piano / Rieteke Hölscher; text by Emily Dickinson

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: zang pf

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