componist
Jan Vriend is van meet af aan een muzikale alles-eter die een uitgesproken modernistische benadering combineert met een open oor en oog voor het belang en de noden van een ...
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Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Andere combinaties van strijkers en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
pf vl vla vc cb
3 intermezzi : for wind ensemble, 1980 / Misha Mengelberg
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Blazersensemble (9 en meer spelers)
Bezetting:
1121 2221 cb
Babel : 6 orkesten, 14 pauken, 3 tamtams, 1985 / Daan Manneke
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
8876 6631 6timp 3tam 4str
Fructus : for string quartet and six percussionists, 1993 / Micha Hamel
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-11 spelers)
Bezetting:
6perc 2vl vla vc
compositie
Double Concerto : for piccolo, piano and orchestra / Jan Vriend
Toelichting:
The idea for the concerto came about after a successful first performance of the Sonata for piccolo and piano that took place in The Goods Shed in my hometown of Tetbury in November 2018. What started off as a mere pipedream, well aware that few orchestras, if any, were desperately waiting for an opportunity to premiere such a novel concept, became a genuine ambition for me.
I set to work regardless of practicalities as soon as I didn’t have any other commitments and produced four movements within a year. When I began writing the music another triumphant performance of the sonata had meanwhile taken place in Amsterdam, followed later in the year by a CD recording, launched at the end of 2019. As the sonata’s fourth movement became a particular favourite of the musicians I pondered if a version with a light orchestral accompaniment couldn’t feature as the slow second movement. However, after finishing all four movements I started having second thoughts about it and decided to compose a new one in its place.
Jan Vriend