related works
Fünf : for orchestra / Giel Vleggaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 3sax 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 4perc hp pf (cel) str
Soft Glass : for ensemble / Maxim Kolomiiets
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2cl vibr perc 2vla vc db
Collective melodies : for wind instruments, percussion and piano, 1980 / Auke Pol
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl cl trb tb 3perc pf
Intérieur : for 7 instrumentalists, (1985) / Ivo van Emmerik
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl(pic fl-b) cl(cl-b) perc 2g vl cb
composition
Appalachia : for acoustic steelstring guitar and ensemble, 2004 / Giel Vleggaar
Other authors:
Vleggaar, Giel
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Folk music in overdrive - that is how the happy marriage of Scottish/Irish folk music with ragtime and blues known as bluegrass has been described. And it is in a remote corner of the world (Appalachia - named after the mountain range in the south-western United States), that this folk music tradition sprung up which has inspired country, folk, gospel and blues musicians. It also tickled Giel Vleggaar's fancy when thinking about a new piece for the Nieuw Ensemble, a group whose focus on string instruments would lend itself very well to sounds as yet little known in the Netherlands. Vleggaar was very curious what might happen when the incredible virtuosity of bluegrass performance were mixed with bebop and contemporary classical music playing techniques. The star of the piece is the steelstring guitar, helped out now and again by a side-kick mandolin, both most definitely in overdrive, on a rollicking ride through an extrodinary urban landscape. - GIEL VLEGGAAR