related works
Two Sides : for alto saxophone, cello and piano / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-a vc pf
Romantisch intermezzo : voor orkest, op. 13, 1894 / Johan Wagenaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4000 timp hp str
Intrada : symphonie orkest, 1978 / Henk Alkema
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2231 timp perc hp str
Divertimento - ballet : voor orkest / Oscar van Hemel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp perc 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.