Celtic Classics for Wind Orchestra & opt. Solo Fiddle 管樂團 獨奏提琴

"我從未如此愉快地參與過一個項目。從豐富的愛爾蘭傳統民間音樂中進行選擇是一項艱巨的任務。當我準備好 16 分鐘的音樂時，已經到了完成作品的時候--但我還有很多材料可以做後續！"

作曲家: Johan de Meij
樂器: Fiddle;Wind Ensemble
出版社: Amstel Music
原文簡介:
“I have seldom worked on a project with this much pleasure. It was a difficult task to choose from the abundance of traditional Irish folk music. By the time I had 16 minutes of music ready, it was time to finish the work – but I had plenty of material left for a follow-up!”

This quote comes from the program notes for my piece At Kitty O'Shea's. Three years later, I happily present the follow-up: Celtic Classics, another folk song suite based on the wildly inventive, foot stomping, irrepressible genre that is Irish music. In both works I try to carry on the tradition of composers like Percy Grainger, Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who all have created superb original repertoire for wind orchestra based on folk music, such as Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, Shepherd's Hey and Molly on the Shore; Holst's Moorside Suite and Suites No. 1 and 2; and Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite.

For Celtic Classics I have focused on the following songs and instrumental works:

• Down by the Sally Gardens (Gort na Saileán) – After a poem by William Butler Yeats

• Give me your hand (Tabhair Dom do Lámh)

• She Moved Through The Fair

• The Butterfly

• Temple House & The Green Gates (Irish Reels)

–Johan de Meij, New York, May 2016.
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