related works

Jets d'orgue : for organ, 1985, Part I / Jan Vriend

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

Two Mandelstam Songs : for soprano or tenor and piano / Elena Langer; on text of Osip Mandelstam

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: sopr/ten pf

Autumn Refrain : for orchestra / Walter Hekster

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: fl eh 2cl 2trp cl-b fg cfg h trb tb 3perc hrp 12vl 8vla 6vc 3cb

Sonatine : for oboe, clarinet and bassoon/bass clarinet / Jan Willem van Dormolen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl cl-b bsn/bass-cl

composition

Double Concerto : for piccolo, piano and orchestra / Jan Vriend

Author(s):
Vriend, Jan (Composer)
Description:
The idea for the concerto came about after a successful first performance of the Sonata for piccolo and piano that took place in The Goods Shed in my hometown of Tetbury in November 2018. What started off as a mere pipedream, well aware that few orchestras, if any, were desperately waiting for an opportunity to premiere such a novel concept, became a genuine ambition for me.
I set to work regardless of practicalities as soon as I didn’t have any other commitments and produced four movements within a year. When I began writing the music another triumphant performance of the sonata had meanwhile taken place in Amsterdam, followed later in the year by a CD recording, launched at the end of 2019. As the sonata’s fourth movement became a particular favourite of the musicians I pondered if a version with a light orchestral accompaniment couldn’t feature as the slow second movement. However, after finishing all four movements I started having second thoughts about it and decided to compose a new one in its place.
Jan Vriend