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
Cyclophony VII : for violin, piano and 6 players of percussion / Hans Kox
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
6perc pf vl
Story of an Impossible Love : for chamber orchestra / Elena Langer
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Morph : for recorder, viola and double bass / Nicoline Soeter
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
rec vla db
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