related works
Mozart’s Ghosts : for 5 instrumentalists / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl h vla vc cemb(pf)
Caprice pour orchestre : 1994 / Piet Kingma
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4331 timp 2perc 2hp str
Centri-fuga : voor orkest, 1976-1979 / Simeon ten Holt
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 4440 2mar(4players) 2pf 2el.org str(8.8.8.8.4.)
Festival of Flowers 鲜花节 Xiānhuā jié : for orchestra / Katia Tiutiunnik
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob 2cl bsn 2h tpt trb tb perc pf 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.