composer
Jan Rokus van Roosendael sought from the beginning an individual idiom that allowed him to express his leaning toward reflection and the spiritual. He initially found inspiration in non-Western music, ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Suite no. 1 : voor orkest, (1973) / Rob du Bois
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4222 sax-t 2421 3perc str
Glow : Double concerto for clarinet, violin and orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Feest : voor orkest, 1988 / Benno Torrenga
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4231 timp perc str
composition
Anabasis : voor orkest, 1984 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Description:
Program note (English): Although the title refers to Xenophon's account of the excursion by the Greeks through Asia-Minor, his Anábasis has nothing to do with my Anabasis. I chose the Greek word anábasis, which means something like: "rise, or uprising, upstream, elevation"... etc. to describe the escalating passages (in small intervals) and the fast development (in large intervals). The pillars of this composition are formed by a recurring, rapidly rising Rakete"-motif, the pediment with its slowly rising and falling structure. The material exists from five different ranges built from three tetrachords. Through the usage of these tetrachords (in total four types) the musical language becomes somewhat modal in character. Anabasis is a composition with many contrasts: fast-slow, aggression-resignation, light-dark, movement and eventually at the end, following the last pillar, rest. - JAN ROKUS VAN ROOSENDAEL