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Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Trombone en orkest
Bezetting:
trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str
Concert voor viool en orkest : (1940) / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2222 0100 str vl-solo
Concertino : per violino e orchestra, (1963) / Oscar van Hemel
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2222 4230 timp str vl-solo
Vioolconcert : 1933 / Nico Richter
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2202 2200 timp perc str(8.8.6.5.) vl-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