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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 : for violin and orchestra, 2002 / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2trp 2trb perc str(12.12.10.8.6.) vl-solo
Concert : voor 2 violen en orkest / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2202 0220 timp perc vibr str 2vl-solo
Toamna : ballata moldava, per siringa ed orchestra, 1982 / Willem Strietman
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Fluit en orkest; Viool en orkest; Mondharmonica en orkest
Bezetting:
2222 sax-a 2110 2perc cel hp str panfl-solo (or other instr)
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