Music

African Suite No. 22 For Flute, Recorder, and Piano Score and Three Parts First Movement: Boda Boda Second Movement: Karungi Third Movement: Too hot! Inside Kampala is my African Suite No. 22; its about my impressions of the 4-million-population capital of Uganda where I stayed many times during my travels through Africa in recent years. Boda Boda is the name of the motorcycle taxi you find...
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Oriental Rhapsody for Recorder Orchestra Score and 15 Parts Sn S AAA TT BB Gb KbKBKb (SGB - SKB) In October 2012 I traveled two and a half weeks through Jordan with my kids. The highlight of our trip was a visit to the desert Wadi Rum, known for Lawrence of Arabia, who organized the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire from here during the First World War. The film Lawrence of Arabia was...
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For Recorder Orchestra ATTBBGGKKK First Movement: Amaza (Waves) 2. Satz: She's still there 3. Satz: Fa wo do yi mame (Give me your love) Ububele in Xhosa means kindness. When the famous German Comedian and Songwriter Hanns Dieter Hüsch was asked, at the end of his life, what his work had all been about, he answered, "To bring more kindness into the world." I was quite impressed when I heard this...
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Revised Edition. For Recorder Trio ATB / SAT / ATB. Djaboué is the first of several african suites and pieces I have composed and still want to compose in the future. I wrote this piece in february 1994 for the Ensemble Flutes en bloc - Anette Bahe, Ebba-Maria Künning und Corinna Fröhlich (www.flutesenbloc.com), who were the first to perform it and who recorded it on their marvellous Album...
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Score and Five Parts I love variations. My favourite piece of Brahms are the Haydn Variations for Orchestra, my favourite piece by Elgar the Enigma Variations. When the Ensemble Pipelife asked me in September 2013 to contribute something to their British programme called The Silver Swan I surfed on Youtube (looking for Irish recorder) and found a young Irishman who played three old Irish tunes on...
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Unfortunately, my favourite composers, Ravel and Débussy, did not write anything for recorders. I wrote the Suite sentimentale in 1998 for those who love impressionist harmonies as much as I do, but particularly for the Berlin ensemble, Dreiklang. But sentimental doesn’t just mean nostalgic in the sense of a longing for Débussy-esque major seventh chords; it also means soulfully: the doleful...
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In 2003, I was asked to write a piece for 12 recorders for the closing concert of the Utrecht recorder festival. Its debut was performed by the Symen Quartett, Brisk Quartett and ALSQ in Utrecht in 29/5/2004. As is so often the case in my African pieces, Celebration expresses feelings of expectation, overwhelming exuberance and woefulness. However, the unusual instrumentation allowed me to write...
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12 Variations on an Old Dutch Dance Tune For Recorder Trio 32 Pages Score and Three Parts. 19,90 € Playtime: 13:30 A real concert piece! Joachim van den Hove (1567 - 1620) was one of the most famous lutenists of his time. He even taught two Princes of Orange. One of his most famous compositions is Canarie, relating to a dance from the Canary Islands (hence the name), that expresses a "fiery...
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Concert Piece for Recorder Quartet and Recorder Orchestra. Score and 15 Parts Instrumentation: Recorder Quartet: SATB Recorder Orchestra: SnoSSAATTBBGK Jinja is a quite idyllic village on the white Nile. I travelled there on January 23rd: it took about two hours from the airport in Entebbe. An endless, dusty street in the midst of all the green. Churchill called Uganda the Pearl of Africa,...
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