related works
Boundless (Homage to L.B.) : for string orchestra, harp, keyboards and percussion / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
timp 5perc hp synth/cel str
Symphonie no. 1 : opus 21 / Rudolf Koumans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp perc hp str
Keep going : for 20 wind instruments, violin, cello and double-bass / Hans Kornac
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2243 sax 4220 vl vc cb
Feierliche Abendmusic / Solemn Night Music : für Orchester / for orchestra / John Borstlap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-c 4h 3trp 3trb timp str
composition
Distorted Fantasia (after J.P. Sweelinck) : for orchestra / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
Description:
I have a great affinity with his music [of Sweelinck], particularly the keyboard works, which I regularly play myself on the piano. One of the Fantasias in Dorian mode (SWwV 259) forms the basis of this work. Sweelinck is always present, but 'filtered through 21st-century glasses', as in a (contemporary) dream that distorts the music in a surreal way. The work draws Sweelinck's idiom into our time with alienating harmonies, distorted rhythms and dramatic contrasts.