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Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Six concertos, opus II / edited by Robert L. Tusler, Willem de Fesch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra; Two or more different solo instruments and orchestra; Violin and string orchestra
Scoring:
str bc 2vl-vc-solo / str bc vl-solo / str bc 2vl-vla-vc-solo / str bc 2vl-2vla-solo
Studentenmuziek : voor strijkorkest, (1948) / Wouter Paap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Andante : voor strijkorkest / Henri C. van Praag
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
composition
Symfonietta : voor strijkers, op. 66 / Géza Frid
Other authors:
Frid, Géza
(Composer)
Contains:
Andante capriccioso
Allegro giusto
Description:
Program note (English): Bravely aiming at an 'Umwertung aller Werte' - a revaluation of all values - the present-day musical idioms are still in their experimental stages. For the composer whose development is founded on a traditional basis, it is impossible, however, to stand aside: the current contrasts between tonal and a-tonal, between pure sound effects and 'old-fashioned' methods of working with motifs, entail problems of every kind. This Symfonietta, purposely scored for the austere strength of a string orchestra, also bears witness to these conflicts; not only in the manifold contrasts between the two movements - the first, thin of sound and unstable of design, the notoric second, solidly built - but also in the numerous melodic, harmonic, contrapuntal and instrumental clashes. The fact that the constructive element and tonality finally bear the upper hand is not meant as a pointer to the future. - GÉZA FRID