related works
Metamorphosis : for orchestra / Yip Ho Kwen Austin
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb0b tb 2perc str
Sonate : voor viool en piano / Rosy Wertheim
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Chant : for violin and piano / Ig Henneman
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
Music Postcards: Reaching Out : for violin and piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vn pf
composition
Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : Version for violin and piano / Yip Ho Kwen Austin
Other authors:
Yip, Austin
(Composer)
Description:
Violin Concerto No.1: Generation is written for violin and symphonic band (or piano). The three movements work, bounded by a short “Prologue” and an “Epilogue”, depicts people of the Generation Z, Y and X in Hong Kong respectively. The first movement “Generation Z” is gloomy in nature, it depicts the difficult situations young people have at the moment. It is followed by a very busy second movement “Generation Y”, who are now at their thirties, working day and night for survival. The third movement “Generation X” has a mixture of moods, it begins and ends with quotations from the famous Cantonese opera Dainuifa, reminding the composer’s childhood memory of his parent’s musical interest.
All the movements are played without pause. Sometimes, an optional cadenza (Omega) is played before the “Epilogue”.