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

Hymne aan de nacht : trio voor viool, cello en piano, opus 40, 1985 / Jo Sporck

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring: pf vl vc

Departures from the romantic agony : for piano trio, 1993 / Roderik de Man

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring: pf vl vc

Klaviertrio : Op. 70, (1975) / Jan Koetsier

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring: pf vl vc

composition

Piano trio : 'Shadows and bells' / Joey Roukens

Other authors:
Roukens, Joey (Composer)
Description:
Before I started writing this piece, I had acquired a stack of scores of piano trios from the great romantic tradition - Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, etc. Amsterdam, the carillon sounds of the Oude Kerk blew into my room through the open window. In my head these bell sounds then began to mix with the romantic music I was studying and it started to sound alienating, and the piece was born.

The piece therefore often contains bell-like sounds and 'shades' of romanticism. These shadows can be heard as a kind of distorted memories of the past, embedded in an alienating, contemporary context. In doing so, the piece follows an erratic ABABA trajectory - the A sections contain the bell sounds and are slow, carried and very dramatic at the climactic moments; the B sections, on the other hand, are energetic, playful, rhythmic and sometimes even humorous.