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Cinq hymnes : for mixed choir, 2 pianos and percussion, 1987/88 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments; Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4 2pf ; GK4 ; GK4 2pf 2perc ; GK6 ; GK4 2pf 2perc
Fünf Epigramme und ein Capriccio : Klavier solo, Op. 72, 1969/70 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Arpeggio Étude : for piano / Nimrod Borenstein
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Balletto notturno : due pianoforti, 1975 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
composition
Les adieux : for piano / Ton de Leeuw
Other authors:
Leeuw, Ton de
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): 'Les Adieux', an extensive one-movement work for piano, was written in 1988 as the result of a commission by the Amsterdam Arts Fund.
It is a sequel to the group of works, written since approx. 1980, in so-called "widened modality".
The work opens with a short, nearly declamatoric introduction, after which the profile of the work's musical universe is outlined. What follows is a broad, tranquilly breathing movement, with a central two-tone motif that - in some form or the other - remains present in the background. The surrounding music is subject to continuous transformations, without ever overstepping its bounds. - TON DE LEEUW