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Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
0000 4sax 4331 2pf cb
Keep going : for 20 wind instruments, violin, cello and double-bass, (1972) / Hans Kornac
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2243 sax 4220 vl vc cb
Adamsarchipel : for ensemble, 1997 / Sander Germanus
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl-a ob cl perc g man hp pf vl vla vc cb
Lacune : voor blazers, piano en contrabas, 1984 / Cees van Zeeland
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
1020 sax-a(fl) 1330 pf cb
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).