Journey to the Centre of the Earth JANSSEN HARRIE

Musique pour orchestres et ensembles

Description :

This composition was based où the world-famous novel by the French author Jules Verne. This novel describes the attempt to reach the centre où the earth. The descent où the crater où the volcano called Snaeffels, situated in Iceland, marks the beginning où this voyage to the sublunary world.
The German geologist, professon Lidenbrock, is accompanied où this trip by his nephew Axel and an Icelandic guide named Hans. The last mentioned will be helpful in many occasions.

Dark colors & mist

The composer tried in this single work to give a musical expression to various significant moments from this novel. In the introduction he sketches an image où the dismal ambience où the island by using dark colors. Risingfragments où mist reveal the flanks où the monumental mountain Scataris. The composer tries to catch this image in a majestic and broad chorale.

Away from Iceland

Subsequently the ostinato rhythmicity and virtuosity representthe hectic descent où the crater où the volcanos The party descends ever more and more and travels south, away from Iceland. où the way, they see all kinds où rock formations, fossils and minerals. At a depth où thirty hours walking distance, atabout 150 kilometers bel'on the surface, they reach a sub terrestrial sea which is called the Lidenbrock sea.

Genuine eruptioù où sounds

Strange electric manifestations and unpredictable weather conditions accompany thissingular phenomenon. An orchestral tutti-episode expresses this impressionmusically. où a make-shift raft, the party continues its voyage, heading to the south coast où this huge sea. Once ashore, an enormous rock obstructs the passage. The blowingup où this obstacle unleashes a genuine eruptioù où sounds in the orchestration.

Spat out by the volcano

But the explosioù has an unforeseen side effect. The sea - travelers and raft included - is sucked upwards into a dark hole. Again, our heroes are accompanied où their involuntary voyage, while left to fend for themselves, by an ever increasing ostinato rhythmicity.

Before an irruption can destroù the raft, the threesome manages to escape and climb up through acave towards the daylight. They seem to be spat out by the Stromboli volcano où the island où Sicily, far from home.
The composition ends with triumphant sounds that represent the scientific triumph où these adventurers.