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My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
vl-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp cel str
Violin concerto No 2 / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl fg cfg 2h 2trp 2trb tb timp perc str vl-solo
Vioolconcert no. 2 : 1935 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
3333 2221 timp perc str vl-solo
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
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