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Le café de nuit : for orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp pf cel str

Levenszomer : phantasie voor orkest, opus 21, 1903 / Johan Wagenaar

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3fl 2ob 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb timp hp str

Symfonie no. 1 : voor orkest, opus 27, 1978 (revisie: 1979) / Peter Schat

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3fl(pic) 2ob(ob-am) ob(eh) 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 2trp trp(trp-pic) 3trb 2tb timp 4perc 2hp mouth-org str

Ouverture : voor symfonie-orkest, op. 154 / Herman Mulder

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3333 4331 timp perc 2hp str

compositie

Le café de nuit : for orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff

Overige auteurs:
Graaff, Jan-Peter de (Componist)
Toelichting:
"Le café de nuit" is a 13-minute fantasia/nocturne for orchestra, based on the painting (with the same name) by Vincent van Gogh, and the letters he wrote to this brother Theo during his stay in Arles, where he rented a studio above the café. In the letters, he describes this place as "a place where you can ruin yourself, go mad, commit crimes". This subject really interested me as a composer as there is really a conflict within the concept of a café. Usually, one goes to a café to escape the ongoing world and everyday problems, to dance, to celebrate life and to drink and go drunk to immerse oneself in a different reality. However, there is a danger, as van Gogh states, as the café also influences the world outside. It is a place where the darkest side of human behaviour emerges. In the piece I tried to find this strange balance between joy and danger, between alertness (or even panic) and being drunk, between passion and truth.
Jan-Peter de Graaff