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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Trekganzen (Migratory Geese) : for oboe, soprano saxophone, bassoon and strings / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
ob sax-s fg vl vla vc db
Las Ramblas : Version for clarinet, bassoon and piano / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl bsn pf
Two Reels and an Air : for pan flute and guitar / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
panfl gt
composition
Syracuse Blues : for string quartet, double bass, drums and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Author(s):
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.