Jacob de Haan: Partituras medio

Esta obra describe la forma en que el río alemán Saar lleva los nombres de todas las personas que vivieron una vez en la zona y de las que viven allí ahora. La introducción muestra al río fluyendo hac...

Esta obra describe la forma en que el río alemán Saar lleva los nombres de todas las personas que vivieron una vez en la zona y de las que viven allí ahora. La introducción muestra al río fluyendo hac...

Free World Fantasy was commissioned in Holland for celebrations commemorating the liberation of Groningen, and therefore symbolises the dream of a world without war. It is the first piece of a series...

Film music is usually written to match the action of each scene. In Jacob de Haan's piece La Storia however there are no scenes and no plot, yet the composer supplies us with music full of action and...

Variazioni in Blue is a series of variations in which elements from the Blues, such as the specific 'blue notes', run throughout the piece. Following a stately introduction, which includes part of the...

Odelettesis the title of a cycle of poems by the 19th-century French writer, Gérard de Neval. In his work, Trois Odelettes, Jacob de Haan set three of de Neval's poems to music for soprano voice and c...

A composition of much contrast based on a well-known psalm melody. As its title announces, it starts with a majestic introduction in which parts of the psalm melody can be heard. Next we hear the comp...

Le Lion de Belfort was composed for the official inauguration of the sculpture Le Lion de Belfort : an enormous red sandstone lion that dominates the landscape of the French city of Belfort. This 22 m...

Salamander Symphony is a three-movement work for symphonic wind band in which the city of Kornwestheim, situated in Baden-Württemberg, occupies centre stage. It is the name of the well-known shoe fact...

Salamander Symphony' is a three-movement work for symphonic wind band in which the city of Kornwestheim, situated in Baden-Württemberg, occupies centre stage. It is the name of the well-known shoe fac...

Fanfare for Korea was commissioned by the first Korea International Concert band Festival, which took place in 2010, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. In this triumphant fanfa...

Odelettesis the title of a cycle of poems by the 19th-century French writer, Gérard de Neval. In his work, Trois Odelettes, Jacob de Haan set three of de Neval's poems to music for soprano voice and c...

Für Mezzo-Sopran und Concert Band

Für Mezzo-Sopran und Concert Band

Hora Est! (Latin for 'it is time!') was composed to bid adieu to Sjoerd de Boer's following forty years as conductor of the Chr. Fanfare Band, based in the town of Wjelsryp in the Netherlands. In the...

Hora Est! (Latin for 'it is time!') was composed to bid adieu to Sjoerd de Boer's following forty years as conductor of the Chr. Fanfare Band, based in the town of Wjelsryp in the Netherlands. In the...

A composition of much contrast based on a well-known psalm melody. As its title announces, it starts with a majestic introduction in which parts of the psalm melody can be heard. Next we hear the comp...

In this composition, Jacob de Haan sees the 'Ross Roy' as a metaphor for the years spent at school (a monument in time), where one's personality is formed. So, the opening theme the artist calls the R...

Ross Roy ist der Name einer monumentalen Villa in Brisbane, Australien, in der 1945 das St. Peter Lutheran College gegründet wurde. Im Auftrag dieses Schulorchesters komponierte Jacob de Haan dieses K...

This concert work, the latest of Jacob de Haan works based on American states, is a suite in three movements, based on a well-known folk tune from Arkansas. In the course of this varied work the folk...

This concert work, the latest of Jacob de Haan works based on American states, is a suite in three movements, based on a well-known folk tune from Arkansas. In the course of this varied work the folk...

Utopia is the name of a book written by the English author Thomas More and was published in 1516. The title is a word thought up by More himself, after the Greek language, meaning 'Nowhereland' and le...