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Fêtes à tensions: (les) eaux marchent : for 20 players / Luc Brewaeys

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: fl(picc, fl-a) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb 2perc hp pf 3vl 2vla 2vc db

Elegie : voor violoncello, 1997 / Adriaan Bonsel

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello
Scoring: vc

Sweet pain : for 8 violoncellos, 1991/1992 / Henk Alkema

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello
Scoring: 8vc

3 impressions : violoncello solo / H.C. King

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello
Scoring: vc

composition

Per André L. 80 : for violoncello / Luc Brewaeys

Other authors:
Brewaeys, Luc (Composer)
Description:
This short composition was the first I composed after months of severe illness, and written for solo violoncello as a surprise for the 80th Birthday of my former teacher and friend André Laporte.

The first performance has been given by cellist Seraphine Stragier on July 24, 2011 during a dinner party on that occasion.

The piece is based on harmonics (flageolet tones) and multiphonics, with extremely subtle sounds, delicate and (sometimes) pretty hard to produce correctly. There are maybe 4 or 5 'normal' notes in the work. As a tribute to André I wrote a slightly arranged quotation -with flageolets, of course- of the main theme of his opera "Das Schloss" ("The Castle", after Kafka), which he composed in the early 80's for the Brussels National Opera La Monnaie/De Munt.