related works
Nocturnes : voor strijkorkest, opus 16, 1968 / Willem Frederik Bon
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Imbroglio : for orchestra / Peter van Onna, 2007
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 3fl 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 4trp 3trb trb-b tb timp 3perc pf(cel) hp str(16.14.12.10.8.)
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0000 4330 org str
Dansflitsen : for orchestra / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 3cl 2fg sax-a 3h 3trp 3trb timp perc xyl cel hp str
composition
Circe : prelude for orchestra, (1972) / Willem Frederik Bon
Other authors:
Bon, Willem Frederik
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The piece is based on the tenth book of Homerus' Odyssey and symbolises the episode of Odysseuss' travels, when reaches the island of Circe. After transforming his crew into pigs Circe uses her charms to chain Odysseus to her bed for two years. The curse in which Odysseus is caught is symbolised in the piece in harp, vibraphone, celesta and piano, and in the middle movement in the first and second violins and oboes. The tranquillity disappears shortly afterwards as Odysseus' feelings of homesickness and military lust arise. Brass and percussion illustrate this phase in the tale. Following a large climax, which introduces the eventual departure from Circes' island, the scale passages in harp and wind instruments from the beginning return once more, but now descending, and the work concludes with a vague recollection to the beginning chords full of a southern warmth, with which the piece opened, as the drawing of the setting against which this history takes place. - WILLEM
FREDERIK BON