related works
Feest in de gele maisvelden : voor ensemble & tape, 2003 / Simon Burgers
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players); Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4sax 2h 2trp 2trb trb-b tb 2perc el.g cb tape
Ballade : for harp solo, 1961 / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
Pas de deux : for harp solo, 1995 / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
November '07 : for 2 harps / Margriet Hoenderdos
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
2hrp
composition
Ballade : for two harps / Claude Debussy, arranged for two pedal harps by Eva Tebbe
Other authors:
Tebbe, Eva
(Orchestrator)
Debussy, Claude
(Composer)
Description:
One century has passed since Claude Debussy left the world of the living. His music keeps haunting us as an inevitable natural phenomenon.
Debussy’s fascination with Russian music is manifest in the Ballade (1890), originally named Ballade Slave. During the Eighties he spent a few summers in Russia on the invitation of Tchaikovski’s patron, madame Nadezhda Von Meck, and hence got in touch with the great Russian composers. The work, originally written for piano solo, evokes a Russian fairy tale-like atmosphere and is narrative in its character.
Translation: Jan Tazelaar