related works

Surrounded by Air - Appearance IV : for nonet & percussion / Bianca Bongers

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl ob cl fg h vn vla vc db perc

The Vermilion Bird : for violin and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vn pf

Three encores : = (Drie toegiften), for violin and piano, op. 53, 1954 / Marius Flothuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

Sonate no. 4 : voor viool en piano, 1931 / Henk Badings

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

composition

Echo : for violin and piano / Bianca Bongers

Other authors:
Bongers, Bianca (Composer)
Description:
Echo is linked to Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his ‘Echo Fantasias’, where he used the different registers of the organ resembling this effect. The idea of an echo, which naturally has a spatial character by sound traveling within a certain space, is something very applicable to my way of thinking. In this piece I was looking for different types of the echo, as ‘an echo on Sweelinck’. To get in touch with the space that surrounded him during his life, I made a walk from his house at Koestraat 15 to the ‘Oude Kerk’ in Amsterdam, where he worked as an organ player for 40 years. This five minute walk is exactly the time stretch of this piece, that I followed during composing.
Bianca Bongers