Joey Roukens, a composer featured on this album, grew up listening to pop, rock, and world music, and believes composers are part of society, not above it.
Composition History
Erkki-Sven Tüür's Solastalgia is a concerto for piccolo and orchestra, commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2015, significantly enriching the piccolo's limited repertoire.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Erkki-Sven Tüür's Solastalgia addresses the concept of 'solastalgia,' a feeling of distress caused by environmental change, a phenomenon the composer experiences daily on his island home.
Compositional Technique
Peter Eötvös's Multiversum features an unprecedented instrumentation of organ, Hammond organ, and orchestra, poetically translating the theory of parallel universes into sound.
Composition History
Richard Rijnvos's Amérique du Nord was commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Leonard Bernstein's centenary and is the second part of his orchestral cycle Grand Atlas, which depicts the seven continents.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Peter Eötvös, a Hungarian conductor and composer, believes it is his duty to open listeners' ears to new musical horizons, embracing the motto: 'Don't give the audience what they want - give them what they need.'
Composition History
Joey Roukens's work Boundless is a 'mini symphony' and a psychological portrait, commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to commemorate Leonard Bernstein's centenary.
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