related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2fl fl-a 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp perc cel vibr mar hp str(10.10.8.6.4.)
un momento indugiò : for symphonic orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl(fl-a) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc hp pf str
Quasi niente : voor orkest, 1969-1970 / Jacques Reuland
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 3330 timp perc str
Malpaís con campanas : for large orchestra, 1997-2000, revision 2005 / Gustavo A. Trujillo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4341 3perc cel(pf) pf 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