related works

24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

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

Klein trio : viool, cello, piano, 1974 / Herman Strategier

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

Trio : voor piano, viool en violoncello / A. Mesritz-van Velthuijsen

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.