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Chansons di Bilitis : arrangement for chamber ensemble / Claude Debussy
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl hn hp voice vln va vcl
De mei plaisant : variaties voor orkest, april 56 / O. van Hemel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4330 timp 2perc hp/pf str
Symphonische Variationen : = Symphonische variaties / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc cel str
Sinfonietta concertante : pour orchestre a cordes, 6 instruments a vent et batterie / Hans Lachman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl 2cl bn 2h per str
composition
Six épigraphes antiques / orchestrated for small orchestra by Rudolf Escher, 1975-1977, Claude Debussy
Author(s):
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