gerelateerde werken
Sonate : voor piano, 1997 / Edward Top
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Piano
Bezetting:
pf
2nd violin concerto : for solo violin and orchestra, 1996 / Hanna Kulenty
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
4fl 4ob 4cl 3fg fg(cfg) 6h 4trp 4trb tb timp 2perc hp pf str(16.14.12.10.8.) vl-solo
Concert Piece : for violin and orchestra / Henriëtte Bosmans
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
vl-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2tpt 2trb timp perc str
Toccata e Canzone : for violin and orchestra / Olga Victorova
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
vn-solo 2fl(picc) ob cl 2fg(cfg) 2h tpt timp str
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