related works
In Unison : Concerto for two pianos and orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
2pf-solo picc 2fl 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb timp 3perc cel str
Symphony II : for orchestra, 1958, (revised version 1980) / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2sax 4h 2trp tb timp 4perc 2hp pf str(14.14.12.10.8.)
Synthese : for orchestra, 1983-87 / Simon Burgers
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 3sax-a 4332 timp 3perc 2hp pf str
Suite voor kamerorkest : (1935) / Oscar van Hemel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2200 0000 pf str
composition
365 : for orchestra, 2006 / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
Description:
365 can be listened to as a continuous musical stream, which – over the course of exactly 365 measures – takes on very different guises, eventually ending exactly at the point where the piece started (not unlike a year cycle of 365 days). In the piece I have tried to connect highly diverse stilistic references and gestures within a single quasi-symphonic architecture as organically as possible: from ethereal, impressionist-like textures to an almost Mahlerian rhetoric to minimalist passages with references to pop and jazz. In doing so, the music is sometimes consciously taken to the edge of kitsch and syrupy tonal harmonies and (what the old avant-garde considers) banal means of expression are not avoided.