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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Piano
Bezetting: pf

Dance : for chamber ensemble / Fergus Currie

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: flugelh sax-s eh cl-b mar hp pf 2vn vla vc

Elegy for André : for violin solo and string ensemble / Frédéric Devreese

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: vn-solo 4vn 2vla 2vc db

One Last Waltz : for two recorders, viola, violoncello and piano / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: 2rec vla vc pf

compositie

Tipperary Concerto : Version A for sax-quartet and chamber orchestra / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Overige auteurs:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Componist)
Toelichting:
There are 2 versions of the Tipperary Concerto:
A: sax quartet, pf, tmp, gc, str. orch. (ad lib. expandable like option B: mar. perc. 3tp, 2tb, btb).
B: sax quartet, 3 tp, 2 tb, btb, mar, perc. sd, gc, tmp, pf, str q. db

In 2014 it was exactly 100 years after the Great War began, which reminded me of a popular song in those days: ‘It's a long way to Tipperary’ by Jack Judge. This was sung by Irish soldiers but was
soon copied by British, Russian and French soldiers. Although Tipperary is a small town in Ireland, where not even Jack Judge had ever been, the song expressed the desperate longing of homesick
soldiers. Even in WW2, this was a popular tune in the military, I myself remember my dad who was a soldier then singing it.
However, apart from a small quote in measure 126 the original tune is not present in this concerto.
The piece has one movement and opens with an adagio that seems to be standing still in time.
Eventually, this adagio leads into a first apotheosis, followed by a ‘liquid blues’, opening the way to a kind of scherzo with a fast final section, followed by a coda, a reminiscence of the initial adagio.