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The Grey Tree : for Chinese chamber orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2dizi 2sheng suona 2perc yangqin pipa ruan guzheng 4erhu 2zhonghu vc db
Concert : voor twee violen en orkest, 1979 / Rob du Bois
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2222 2220 timp perc hp str 2vl-solo
Concerto : per violino ed orchestra, 1968-1969 / door Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2222 2220 timp hp str vl-solo
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
0000 0040 timp 5perc str(12.12.8.8.4.) 2vl-solo
compositie
My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top
Overige auteurs:
Top, Edward
(Componist)
Toelichting:
This 10-minute work is based on the etching with the same title of Belgian artist James Ensor. On separate panels, it shows two states of the artist himself. One is a ‘skeletonized’ version of the other, as if the artist celebrates the wearing of his own death mask. This transformation from one state to the next, from the real to the surreal, from the ordinary to the grotesque is the main element in the composition. The orchestral introduction already shows this process of transformation. The first violins play the initial phrase of a melody in the style of Tchaikovsky that is soon brought into a surrealistic realm of celesta, harp and strings harmonics. This process is then applied to the large form. The violin solo expands the initial phrase after which the mood entirely changes into a grotesque dance, entitled ‘Entry of the Masked Skeletons’. ‘My Schizoid Portrait’ is the subtitle of a cadenza-like section, which culminates in a grand and slow postlude.
Edward Top