composer

Vriend, Jan

From the start, Jan Vriend has been a musical omnivore who combines a strongly modernistic approach with openness to the interests of and needs for a good musical education. ...

related works

Pianoquintet in three movements : for piano, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, 1998 / 1999 / Jan Vriend

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Other combinations of strings and keyboard instrument
Scoring: pf vl vla vc cb

First harmonium concerto : for harmonium and ensemble [ASKO/Schönberg version] / Martijn Padding, 2008 ; ASKO/Schönberg versie (2009)

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Organ and large ensemble
Scoring: fl(fl-b pic) ob cl(cl-b) fg h trp trb MIDI-keyboard perc el.g g-b/cb vl vla harm-solo

First harmonium concerto : for harmonium and ensemble / Martijn Padding, 2008

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Organ and large ensemble
Scoring: fl(fl-b pic) fl cl(cl-b) 2sax h trp 2trb tb keyboard perc el.g g-b harm-solo

Music for organ and 12 players : Hilversum, winter 70-71 / Ton de Leeuw

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Organ and large ensemble
Scoring: fl-a(pic) cl(cl-b) 2h 2trp 2trb perc el.g g-b cb org-solo

composition

Huantan : for organ and wind orchestra, 1967/1968 / Jan Vriend

Description:
Program note (English): Huantan, the universal medicine; a gold dust spread mistily like winddriven by rain through the five organs... (Chinese Alchemy - from: The History of Magic, Kurt Seligmann). Huantan has been written for five wind-groups, the organ included. The disposition of the four wood/brass groups is essential; all sorts of sound-movements, mainly turning to the right, in slow or fast movement, accelerating or retarding, regular or irregular, simplex or complex, have been carefully organized and arranged throughout the composition. The organ-part is based on a maximum number of variations on a program of 4 parameters: registration, ways of performance, movements of pitch and sound-lengths. This resulted in 72 independent fragments of pre-programmed length which have finally been put together in a certain development towards the end (roughly from solo-voices towards tutti at the end), on the basis of the results in the registration parameter. Underlying are obscure and with difficulty
revealing processes of blending and boiling a great variety of ingredients. The alchemist's secret: "Learn about the egg and cut it with a flaming sword". - JAN VRIEND