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Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: pic fl ob eh cl cl-b fg cfg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b tb 3perc pf/cel cemb hp str

Dix mélodies : 1947/48 / version pour voix moyenne et orchestre instrumentées par Willem Strietman, 1982/83, Henriëtte Bosmans

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: medium fl(pic) fl(fl-a) fl ob(ob-am) ob eh cl cl(sax-a) cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 5perc cel(pf) hp str

Fancy : for recorder quartet and soundtracks, 1997 / Wim de Ruiter

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Recorder and keyboard instrument; Electronics with different instruments; Recorder with multimedia
Scoring: 4rec tape

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Recorder and keyboard instrument
Scoring: rec 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