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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Paris 1993 : for ensemble / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl(picc) cl(cl-b) 2perc pf vla vc
Tales of 1001 Nights (Sheherazade): Overture : for violin and guitar / Rijndert van Woudenberg
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vn g
The Queen's Speech Music : Version for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba / Peter van Onna
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2trp h trb tb
composition
Syracuse Blues : for string quartet, doubles bass, drums and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
September 2008 I visited Sicily. On the fishing market of Syracuse I recorded a couple of stallholders selling fish, in a melancholic way, singing with glissandi, like sirenes. The melodies of their speech became the leitmotif for the composition. Sicilian fishermen probably advertised their fish like this for thousands of years. But what are they actually saying? Oscar Pizzo, a Sicilian friend, explained that it’s a mixture of Sicilian dialect, mixed with old Greek and Arab words. I regard Syracuse Blues also as a lament. The world’s seas and oceans are poisoned and overfished.