composer
Though Juriaan Andriessen was of the generation of musical innovators such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, his main musical influences were pre-war French composers. Andriessen composed an extensive body ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4331 timp perc hp str (GK4 ad lib. in finale)
Concertino no. II : voor piano en orkest / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
0200 0000 str pf-solo
Northern lights : for piano solo and chamber orchestra, 2002 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
4343 2200 timp 4perc el.g-b str pf-solo
Homage to Gershwin : voor groot orkest / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 4perc cel hp str (pf-solo in 1 en 3)
composition
Concerto : voor piano en orkest / door Jurriaan Andriessen
Contains:
Allegro moderato
Lento
Allegro scherzando
Description:
Program note (English): The quick movements are lively and playful, the piano is treated as a 'motoric' instrument, often even as a percussion instrument; lyricism is only heard in the second movement. The form of the first movement resembles that of the pre-Mozart concerto. But, whilst in those baroque concertos generally the principal subject and its repeats are played by the whole ensemble and the episodes by the soloist, here both partners take part in the evolution of the musical ideas. The principal subject is mainly given to the soloist, after a few introductory bars of the orchestra. Two themes are alternating in the slow second movement, which conditions a complex binary form. The third movement has a rondo form.