Partitions difficile de Concertos

La Quintessenza is a musical approach of the quintessence, the heart of the matter. By focusing a five note motif in a number of variants, De Meij tries to get through to the essence of the musical ma...

Strathcarron is a movement from Philip Sparke's Hymn of the Highlands, in which each movement reflects a different location in the beautiful Scottish highlands. Stratcarron, named after a village at t...

Das Stück Pentangle besteht aus drei Sätzen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden, und orientiert sich am klassischen Aufbau des barocken Concerto grosso. Das Blechbläserquintett und das begleitende...

Algemiz is a town situated on the banks of the river Sucron, in the south of Valencia in Spain. Algemiz by Ferrer Ferran was inspiredby two historical events connected with the town. When the Iberian...

The innovative Spanish composer Ferrer Ferran has taken Greek mythology as an inspiration for his concerto for trumpet and concert band. Hydra, the water monster decapitated by Hercules and Iolaus, te...

The Haunter of the Dark is based on a tale by the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) about a deserted church, where according to an old legend a monster had been lying low for years. A scien...

Blue Horizons ('Horizons bleus') est un tryptique mystérieux, puissant et luminescent qui dépeint l'univers de la mer et les créatures marines. 1. Dans Luminescent Creatures ('Créatures luminescentes'...

Hercule (Heraklès en grec), le héros mythologique, est célèbre pour avoir accompli Douze Travaux particulièrement difficiles. Sa force, son courage et sa persévérance devinrent légendaires. Hercules e...

Written to celebrate the Zeppelin-Foundation's centennial, Thomas Doss' first symphony represents the passionate history of the world's most renowned airship. Throughout his contrasting score, Thomas...

In this colourful composition, Jan van der Roost recreates the energetic and multi-racial city life in Manhattan, using four contrasting movements. The opening movement is rather short and rhytmical....

The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Al...

This composition is based on a passacaglia theme, in which artistic perfection, symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of vari...