related works
ZandZeeBar : for baritone saxophone / Jan-Peter de Graaff
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-bar
Symphonie Nº 2 / Willem van Otterloo; rev. Otto Ketting
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp 2perc str
Symphony Nº 3 : for orchestra / John Borstlap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl bcl 2bsn dbsn 4hn 2tpt timp str
Symphony II : (opus 30), for orchestra, (1983) / Peter Schat
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl fl(fl-a) 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 4sax 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb 5perc 2hp str
composition
Le café de nuit : for orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff
Other authors:
Graaff, Jan-Peter de
(Composer)
Description:
"Le café de nuit" is a 13-minute fantasia/nocturne for orchestra, based on the painting (with the same name) by Vincent van Gogh, and the letters he wrote to this brother Theo during his stay in Arles, where he rented a studio above the café. In the letters, he describes this place as "a place where you can ruin yourself, go mad, commit crimes". This subject really interested me as a composer as there is really a conflict within the concept of a café. Usually, one goes to a café to escape the ongoing world and everyday problems, to dance, to celebrate life and to drink and go drunk to immerse oneself in a different reality. However, there is a danger, as van Gogh states, as the café also influences the world outside. It is a place where the darkest side of human behaviour emerges. In the piece I tried to find this strange balance between joy and danger, between alertness (or even panic) and being drunk, between passion and truth.
Jan-Peter de Graaff