related works
Lock, stock, and barrel : for piano / Jan-Peter de Graaff
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Concertino : voor saxofoonkwartet, harp, piano, slagwerk en strijkorkest, 1984 / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
timp 3perc hp pf str 4sax-solo
Méditation symphonique : pour saxophone soprano et orchestre de chambre, 2000 / Willem Strietman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
fl ob eh cl fg h trp trb 2perc pf(cel) hp str(8.6.4.4.2.) sax-s solo
Zerstreutes Hinausschaun : for soprano saxophone, alto saxophone and orchestra / Yip Ho Kwen Austin
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring:
sax-s-solo sax-a-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h timp 2perc hp str
composition
Concerto Nº 6 "Métropolitain" : for saxophone quartet and orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff
Other authors:
Graaff, Jan-Peter de
(Composer)
Description:
Concerto no.6 “Metropolitain” is a concerto in two contrasting movements describing the feeling of living in an urban environment, where everything seems to be built to guide and transport humanity in such a way that maximum efficiency in such a way that there is no real distinction between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ anymore. However, the desire to find beauty, to live and to play is of such importance to human survival that when people subvert the efficiency into something beautiful or something playful, one can ask oneself the question: where lies the border between culture and nature within an urban environment? This piece tries to ask this question in a musical way.
In the first movement, the static, concrete nature of a business district is slowly transformed into shapes and forms that seam to break out in waves, lines and colours in an almost dreamlike state, where the
sounds of birds and reptiles are emerging from the saxophone quartet. The second movement is inspired by Line 9 of the Paris Metro, that frequently is being used by ‘train surfers’ to get a good view of the Eiffel Tower, crossing the Seine at 80 km/h, chased by the gendarmerie.
Jan-Peter de Graaff