related works
1999 Quatre prophéties de Nostradamus : pour soprano et orchestre / Willem Frederik Bon
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2232 4330 timp 3perc 2hp pf str(12.12.10.8.6.)
Divertimento pittorale : per orchestra, op. 69 / Anthon van der Horst
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 4331 timp perc 2hp str
Mühldorfer Serenade : für Orchester / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1121 2230 timp perc (hp ad lib.) str
Blauwvingers : fantasie voor orkest, opus 8, 1981 / Ed de Boer
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4230 timp 2perc 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