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Dead as Disco : for orchestra / Giel Vleggaar

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b tb 3perc pf hp 2vl vla vc cb

Bubble chamber : for string quartet, 2000 / Richard Sims

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

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Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: GK trp flhn perc

Vita nova : chamber opera / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: alt vl vdg cemb

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