Jan van der Roost: spartiti difficile

This piece attempts to portray atmospheric pictures through music. The opening section evokes the somewhat misty and hazy early morning atmosphere surrounding the ancient monument. When the band reach...

This piece attempts to portray atmospheric pictures through music. The opening section evokes the somewhat misty and hazy early morning atmosphere surrounding the ancient monument. When the band reach...

From Ancient Times è un brano di grande impatto che attinge nella musica rinascimentale franco-fiamminga. La trama si appoggia su principi e tecniche di scrittura caratteristici di questa scuola che h...

Colores is Spanish for 'colours' - a word which this composition seeks to reflect and build itself upon. Musical colours, timbres, sounds, soft and sharp color tones, sonorous effects ... they are all...

Colores is Spanish for 'colours' - a word which this composition seeks to reflect and build itself upon. Musical colours, timbres, sounds, soft and sharp color tones, sonorous effects ... they are all...

From Ancient Times is a major work for brass band, inspired largely by the music of the Franco-Flemish School of the Renaissance. Hints of Gregorian chant and middle age dances pay tribute to music fr...

I Shall Love But Thee' is an occasional work in the literal sense of the word, since it was originally written on the occasion of the composer's youngest son's wedding. The texts, by William Shakespea...

I Shall Love But Thee' is an occasional work in the literal sense of the word, since it was originally written on the occasion of the composer's youngest son's wedding. The texts, by William Shakespea...

Dopo l'opera originale Stonehenge, pubblicata nel 1992, il compositore Jan Van der Roost ha nuovamente dedicato un nuovo lavoro a questo monumento molto speciale, in risposta alle recenti ricerche che...

A spectacular dive via an extended chromatic scale immediately submerges us in a charged and somewhat archaic-feeling atmosphere. Trumpets, horns and trombones resound in rhythmic patterns, buttressed...

Freude, Traurigkeit und Fröhlichkeit sind die drei Stimmungen, die Jan Van der Roost in diesem Werk für Bassklarinette und Klavier in ebenso vielen Sätzen vertonte. Während die Freude in einem rhythmi...

In questo concerto in tre movimenti Jan Van der Roost riprende alcune citazioni di opere barocche di Vivaldi e Bach che hanno contribuito in modo importante ad ampliare il repertorio per tromba. I tre...

The impact that Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the Saxophone, (Dinant, Belgium, 1814 - Paris, France, 1894) has had on musical history is undeniable. In this work, Jan Van der Roost has tried to pay a s...

This major concert work cosists o five movements. 1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas, a group of lagoons in isolated and myste...

It may be surprising to see a fanfare piece commissioned by a Japanese ensemble, since fanfare orchestras are typically found in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, and also France and Switzerland. Senzo...

This semi-programmatic work about medieval Great Britain - of which Albion is the earliest known name - was originally composed for brass band. Due to its great success, Jan Van der Roost created a fa...

This semi-programmatic work about medieval Great Britain - of which Albion is the earliest known name - was originally composed for brass band. Due to its great success, Jan Van der Roost created a fa...

Knocking at Heaven's Gate briefly brings us into contact with heaven by way of music. It has beautiful solos for euphonium and flugelhorn, a star role for the trumpets and trombones, but it is also a...

Knocking at Heaven's Gate briefly brings us into contact with heaven by way of music. It has beautiful solos for euphonium and flugelhorn, a star role for the trumpets and trombones, but it is also a...

This piece attempts to portray atmospheric pictures through music. The opening section evokes the somewhat misty and hazy early morning atmosphere surrounding the ancient monument. When the band reach...

In the south-west of England, an impressive circle of sandstone blocks has stood for more than 3,500 years. Despite extensive research and scientific calculations, the exact meaning of this site is st...

Als Jan Van der Roost Spartacus/I> komponierte, hatte er nicht ausdrücklich die Absicht, programmatische Musik zu schreiben, weshalb in der Komposition keine bestimmte Geschichte verfolgt oder zum Aus...