related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, 1996-2006, Volume 2
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sechs Lieder : für Alt-Mezzo und Streichorchester / Henk Klop; Texten Joseph von Eichendorff
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
mezzo str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl fl(fl-a) ob 2ob(eh) 2cl cl(cl-b) 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb 2timp perc vibr 2hp str
Hymne : voor bas-solo met orkestbegeleiding, 1941-1943 / [tekst] (P.C. Boutens), Willem Pijper
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bas 2333 4331 timp perc hp str
composition
Song and dance : for soprano and orchestra, 1990 / text: Ottavio Rinuccini, Ronald Ford
Other authors:
Ford, Ron
(Text writer/Librettist)
Rinuccini, Ottavio
(Text writer/Librettist)
Ford, Ron
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Songs and Dance uses the text 'Piangono al Pianger mio' by the renaissance librettist/poet Ottavio Rinuccini in an English translation. The textual images of weeping beasts and sighing stones formed the initial inspiration for the orchestral part. Slowly, tentatively, the orchestra moves forward, feeling its way into new territory. This very gradual development is contrasted by the active rhythmic sense, resulting in a music which is both slow and fast at the same time. At a certain point the soprano begins telling us the text that we have already been hearing in the orchestra, singing as a sort of cantus firmus from within the orchestra. - RON FORD