gerelateerde werken
Concerto : for violin and two orchestras / Edward Top
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
vl-solo 2picc(fl) 2ob cl(cl-b) fg(cfg) 2trp 2trb tb-b perc hp pf(synth) str
Symphonie no. 3 : pour grande orchestre, 1981-1985 / Luctor Ponse
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
3343 4331 5-6perc hp pf str
Night and day : for chamber orchestra, 1988 / Caroline Ansink
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
fl(pic) ob cl fg h trp trb perc hp str
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
2fl 2fl(pic) 3ob eh 3cl cl-b sax-s sax-a 3fg cfg 4h 4trp 3trb tb 2timp 2perc 2hp str
compositie
Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top
Auteur(s):
Top, Edward
(Componist)
Toelichting:
This piece in itself is an eruption, a celebration of the intense outbreak of youthful vigor, capturing a tour de force of speed that does not diminish for the entire duration. It is the raw and unrestrained crest of musical heights that is captured in the fleeting moment of an eruption.
The idea came about when, by chance, I discovered a striking similarity between cadences in the Ars Nova style, a French medieval musical style, compared to power chords of the modern-day Heavy Metal genre, where the use of parallel perfect fifths plays a pivotal role in its unmistakable sound. The experience might be likened to a modern painter creating cave drawings even when many developments in skill and style have since transpired. It was this primal yet contemporary approach that justified the transforming of elements from the extreme metal subgenre such as blastbeat drumming (intense sixteenth-note strokes on the snare drum), chromatically moving power chords and metrical shifts, into a contemporary symphonic esthetic.
Eruption is commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for joint performances by the TSO and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. It will be performed in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal during the 150th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 2017. Eruption was composed with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Edward Top, Vancouver (October 2016)