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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb 2fg cfg sax-a sax-t
M' Agapas? : for solo voice / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
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Ave Maria : voor een zangstem met orgel of piano begeleiding, 1949 / Willem Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and organ; Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m/alt org/pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
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composition
Falling Down : for clarinet, violoncello and piano, 2003 / Giel Vleggaar
Other authors:
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