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Sonate : voor cello en piano / Hans Henkemans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vc pf
Melomotion : concerto for orchestra, 1990, revision 2003 / Ernst Oosterveld
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Flute and orchestra
Scoring:
0112 4110 xyl vibr mar pf str fl-solo
Concerto : for pan flute and orchestra / Benjamin Ashkenazy
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Flute and orchestra
Scoring:
panflute-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2perc str
Toward the edge of night : for flute and chamber orchestra, 1989 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Flute and orchestra
Scoring:
0221 1110 4perc hp pf str fl-solo
composition
Élégies : pour quatre flûtes et orchestre, 1967 / Hans Henkemans
Other authors:
Henkemans, Hans
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): (Première: 18-10-1967 - Utrecht - Marius Ruysink, Hans Bolland, Thom Reinders, Charles Havelaar, Utrechts Symphony Orchestra, Paul Hupperts, conducting) - The composition consists of four short movements, which flow continuously forward, while each in their own manner are, as it were, a comment on desolation. The construction of the whole work is very open, although near the end of the last fragment short reminiscences to the beginning appear, resulting in a certain entity. The first of the four elegies consists, by maintaining an atmosphere and tempo, of two parts (the first acting as an introduction to the entire work and is an important part of the usage of thematic material that will be heard); the orchestra has been entrusted to the brass and wind instruments (mainly brass). The following two elegies combine an agitated and slightly imminent string accompaniment with the sometimes plaintive, sometimes hard 'raging' playing of the four flutes. This fragment connects by
means of a general pause to the quiet and dark third movement, of which the accompaniment now rests with the whole (though generally playing in small groups) orchestra. A slightly contemplative fourth movement, in the most extreme of pianissimos, concludes the work.- HANS HENKEMANS