Martijn Padding - First harmonium concerto

Описание: Martijn Padding (1956)

First harmonium concerto : for harmonium and ensemble (2008)

1. Horlepiep - 00:00
2. Procession - 04:35
3. Third Movement - 09:50

Dirk Luijmes, harmonium
Ensemble: Asko-Schönberg
Conductor: Etienne Siebens

written for Dirk Luijmes and Ensemble 'De Ereprijs'


Martijn Padding is a Dutch composer. He studied musicology and sonology at Utrecht University and undertook piano studies with Fania Chapiro. At The Hague Royal Conservatory he studied composition with Andriessen and instrumentation with Geert van Keulen. Before becoming a full-time composer, he was for several years a pianist for the National Academy for Ballet, and also worked with modern dancers such as Krisztina de Châtel, Beppie Blankert and Bianca van Dillen.
Padding, like Stravinsky and his teacher Andriessen, believes that music is about the music of others; he feels that the many different types of music in the post-serial years have led to an 'age of stylelessness'. His music is related to the anti-Romantic and post-minimalist aesthetics of The Hague school, but also draws inspiration from Mahler's juxtaposition of popular and art-music styles. In his large orchestral work Scharf abreissen (1995), part of a trilogy including Nicht eilen, nicht schleppen (1993) and Jesu, erbarme Dich noch einmal (1993), he juxtaposes two-part Renaissance-like chorales with sections of irregular, 'psychotic' rhythmical chord progressions inspired by the music of Thelonious Monk, and with sections of music of greater hysteria and bombast recalling Mahler and Brahms. He strives for an uninhibited manner of composing, which is nevertheless always dominated and guided by harmonic principles. In his trilogy, for example, a matrix of six six-part chords is the unifying harmonic framework which allows the music to modulate between diatonic and chromatic textures. His more recent works are less prone to the angular construction and pithy harmonic structure of his earlier pieces, and although Padding's music often still exhibits a technical-musical aspect, a theatrical element is increasingly evident.