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

3 Invocations : for string quartet and celesta / Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 2vn vla vc cel

La Commedia : for symphony orchestra / Alexey Retinsky

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl picc 3ob 3cl(cl-b) 3fg(cfg) 4h 4tpt 3trb tb timp 5perc hp str

Largo cantabile : for alto saxophone and piano, 1983 / Henk Badings

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: sax-a pf

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