related works
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
Concertstuk : voor kamerorkest / Wolfgang Wijdeveld
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1111 1000 str(3.2.2.1.)
Symphonie no. 1 : (1929) / Piet Ketting
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 sax-a 4431 timp 4perc hp cel str
Sinfonia V : opus 65, Amsterdam, 5-X-1959 / Lex van Delden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 2200 timp perc str
composition
Shadows with Melodies : for symphony (youth) orchestra / 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.