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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Movements : Two sketches for symphony orchestra / Kris Oelbrandt
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb timp 2perc hp str
Conductus - Constructio : for symphony orchestra / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl/picc/fl-a 2ob/eh 2cl 2fg/cfg 2h 2tpt 2trb/trb-b tb timp 5perc str
Autumn Refrain : for orchestra / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl eh 2cl 2trp cl-b fg cfg h trb tb 3perc hrp 12vl 8vla 6vc 3cb
composition
Anabasis : voor orkest, 1984 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Other authors:
Roosendael, Jan Rokus van
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Although the title refers to Xenophon's account of the excursion by the Greeks through Asia-Minor, his AnĂ¡basis has nothing to do with my Anabasis. I chose the Greek word anĂ¡basis, 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