related works

Athena Keramitis : for contrabass flute and bass clarinet, 1985 / Jan Vriend

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Woodwind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl-cb cl-b

Organ Concerto : for organ and ensemble / Martijn Padding

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Organ and large ensemble
Scoring: org-solo fl tpt trb perc vla vc hp

First harmonium concerto : for harmonium and ensemble / Martijn Padding

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

Concerto : organo, orchestra, 1968 / Marius Monnikendam

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Organ and large ensemble
Scoring: 3222 4330 2timp 2perc (hp ad lib.) 2cb org-solo

composition

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

Other authors:
Vriend, Jan (Composer)
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