componist

Hekster, Walter

Walter Hekster is geboren in Amsterdam op 29 maart 1937. Opleiding In 1961 behaalde hij zijn einddiploma aan het Amsterdams Conservatorium, waar hij bij Ernest W. Mulder compositie studeerde en klarinet bij ...

gerelateerde werken

Vier Achterberg liederen : voor bariton en klein ensemble, 1991 / Walter Hekster

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting: bar cl-b perc hp vla

Rotations : for alto recorder, 1988 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Blokfluit
Bezetting: rec-a

Ewigkeit in einem Augenzwinkern : for medieval double recorder / Wilma Pistorius

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Blokfluit
Bezetting: rec

Generations around me : for recorder quartet / Celia Swart

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Blokfluit
Bezetting: 4rec

compositie

Encounter : for a recorder solo, (1973) / Walter Hekster

Toelichting:
Program note (English): Encounter was written for the Canadian recorder-player Gilles Plante, who also premiered the piece. The composition was inspired by my impressions of nature in the dense Canadian forest of Lake McDonald, here it was conceived. Nevertheless, it is not a musical portrayal of the many birdsongs, nor of the wind rustling through the trees, nor the stillness on the lake, though all these things exerted a strong influence on the sounds gestures, and tone-figures in Encounter.
Subtle colours and articulations alternate quickly with harsh sounds which can be played to the extreme. Only the glissando-like passages should never be sharply defined, and the accented notes of the end of a glissando do not have to be pure and detached, but should rather tend to tune towards the principal note. - WALTER HEKSTER