related works

Introduction : for english horn and (youth / school / amateur) orchestra / Luc Brewaeys

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Oboe and orchestra
Scoring: eh-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb tb 3perc pf str

Concertino : opus 142, for oboe-solo and youth orchestra, (1966) / Herman Mulder

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: School orchestra; Oboe and orchestra
Scoring: 2120 1210 timp perc str ob-solo

Canti d'Orfeo : concerto per oboe/corno inglese ed orchestra / Wim Laman

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Oboe and orchestra
Scoring: pic fl ob eh cl cl-b fg cfg 2h 2trp trb perc str(8.6.5.4.2.) ob(eh)-solo

Wuivend Riet : for oboe solo and orchestra / Willem Breuker

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Oboe and orchestra
Scoring: 2fl (picc) ob 2asx(cl) 2ts(cl) bsx(Bcl) Hrn 4trp 4trb hp pno(synth) eg bg perc dr ob solo str

composition

Introduction : for english horn and (youth / school / amateur) orchestra / Luc Brewaeys

Other authors:
Brewaeys, Luc (Composer)
Description:
This short work was written for Alex Van Beveren and the Antwerp Youth & Music Orchestra for their appearance in Copenhague, Cultural Capital of Europe in 1996, who commissioned the piece.

The solo part includes some multiphonics, chosen not only for their effect but mainly because of the harmonic properties, for the music is -as usual ion my works- based on the natural harmonics of (in this particular case) the note G. The music is technically relatively easy for the orchestral players, since the idea was that almost everyone would be able to perform it. There are also some controlled aleatoric passages in the orchestra, while the English Horn part is written out completely. The piece ends with two bars of syncopated and very recognizable rhythms in the percussion, announcing more things to come, as the purpose was to work out the piece as a Concerto in three movements.

This Concerto was eventually composed 10 years later.