composer
Rudolf Escher was a composer who wrote for the ear, rather than to conform to some extra-musical principle. He composed a relatively small oeuvre of orchestral pieces, chamber music and ...
related works
Largo from the Sinfonia in memoriam Maurice Ravel : for orchestra, 1940 / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4344 3sax 3321 timp 2perc cel 2hp str
Studentenmuziek : voor strijkorkest, (1948) / Wouter Paap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Fancy : for strings, 1959 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Concerto per due orchestre d'archi : opus 71, 1961 / Lex van Delden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
2str
composition
Concerto voor strijkorkest : for string orchestra and timpani, (1947-48) / Rudolf Escher
Contains:
Canto appassionato
Rondo mediterraneo
Ciaccona epica
Description:
Program note (English): I wished to treat the string instruments first of all as vocal instruments. This conception conditioned the formal principle of the composition: the sequence slow - quick - slow. The form of the three movements can be described as a non-strophic ("durchkomponiert") song, a great Rondo and a Chaconne (Variations). In the first and in the last movement timpani have been added to the string body, which reveal neither thematic nor "Concertante" significance, but merely as an ornamental function. - RUDOLF ESCHER