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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
0000 4sax 4331 2pf cb
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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
1110 1210 3perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
Postcard from Europe : for chamber orchestra, 2004 / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl cl sax-s sax-a 2h 2trb tb perc el.g el.g-b pf
Mobsters : concerto for alto saxophone, strings and percussion, 1998 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
perc str / 2vl vla vc cb sax-a-solo
composition
Lent, vague, indécis : for instrumental ensemble, 1992-93 / Diderik Wagenaar
Other authors:
Wagenaar, Diderik
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): 'Lent, vague, indécis' is a visual inspired composition. The piece is a variation on the fourth prelude from the cycle opus 74 by Alexander Skrjabin. It derives it title from the performance notes by Skrjabin. The prelude has very pronounced rhythms and is one of Skrjabin's latest pieces in which the so-called 'Prometheus-chord' is missing*.
In 'Lent, vague, indécis' Skrjabin's harmonization is being harmonized. The changes in harmony are provided with simple or more complex resonance-chords. The original successive chords are delayed by one group of instruments and accelerated by another group. Some are repeated, others are left out. Therefore, we can describe the piece as a distorted memory to the prelude by Skrjabin.
- DIDERIK WAGENAAR * 'The Prometheus-chord' is named after Skrjabin's so called composition for piano and orchestra: Prométhée, le "Poème du Feu" op. 600 (1910).