related works
In Unison : Concerto for two pianos and orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
2pf-solo picc 2fl 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb timp 3perc cel str
Concert-ouverture : (1910) / Jeanne Beyerman-Walraven
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2232 4331 timp perc hp str
The eternal return : = De eeuwige terugkeer = Die ewige Wiederkehr, for orchestra / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb 3perc str
Dramatische ouverture : voor orkest, Amsterdam, juni 1953 / R. Colaço Osorio-Swaab
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4331 timp 2perc hp 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.