related works
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl fl-a ob ob(eh) 2cl fg perc cel 2hp str(8.6.4.4.)
Symphony Picardie : for symphony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl(picc) 2fl 3ob 2cl 2cl(cl-b) 2fg fg(fg-c) 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc pf str
Les palmes dans le vent : (etude symphonique), (1950) / Ignace Lilien
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3233 4331 timp perc hp pf str
Capriccio et choral : voor symfonieorkest, 1992 / Piet Kingma
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 2220 timp 2perc str
composition
Six épigraphes antiques / orchestrated for small orchestra by Rudolf Escher, 1975-1977, Claude Debussy
Other authors:
Escher, Rudolf
(Orchestrator)
Debussy, Claude
(Composer)
Contains:
Pour invoquer Pan, dieu de vent d'été
Pour un tombeau sans nom
Pour que la nuit soit propice
Pour la danseuse aux crotales
Pour l'Egyptienne
Pour remercier la pluie au matin
Description:
Program note (English): (First radio-performance: July 6, 1978 (broadcast 20 July) - Radio Kamerorkest, Ernest Bour, conducting; first concert performance: October 28, 1979 - Grote Zaal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam - Concertgebouworkest, Bernard Haitink, conducting).
In 1914, shortly before World War I and four years after his death in 1918, Debussy completed his Six épigraphes antiques, a suite of six short pieces for piano-four hands (...). The composition has a remarkable hasty texture and does not reveal a typical piano ornamentation; it is in certain sense already particel (score-design), which reveals a certain instrumental source on each page, the source of 'music for two harps, celesta and some woodwinds.' Especially the dominant place of the harps can be seen in the scores' written notes. Strengthened by the knowledge that Debussy (...) himself thought of an orchestration, I have considered my circumstances for the orchestration as a leading principle (...). - RUDOLF ESCHER