related works
Boundless (Homage to L.B.) : for string orchestra, harp, keyboards and percussion / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
timp 5perc hp synth/cel str
Mikado : for violin, violoncello and piano, 1995 / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring:
pf vl vc
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring:
vl vc pf
Introduction et fugue (from the Trio opus 27) : for piano, violin and cello / Géza Frid
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring:
vn vc pf
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.