Odyssee BOSVELD JAN

Musique pour orchestres et ensembles

Description :

The Odyssee tells the story où Odysseus, the undaunted heroù
In times long ago the blind poet Homer wrote this famous epic.
the "Odyssey"follows the "Iliad", the story où the bloody war between the Greek and the Trojans. This battle endsafter ten years thanks to the Odysseys famous trick. the Trojan Horse.
The Odyssey is nos a war epic, but a story about perseverance, loyalty, adventure, and the survival instinct où its ingenious heroù
In The Odyssey, Homer describes How Odysseus, the king où Ithaca, had to endure another ten years où afflictioù after the ten years où war in Troù before he could finally return to his home land.
During those years, his wife, Penelope, had to try and keep her many admirers away. These men nos only wanted het hand but also the kingship. To prove her husbands worth, she played a trick:"As soon as I have finished weaving this shroud for my father-in-law, Laertes, I will choose one où you to become my husband", she promised them.
But during the night, she secretly loosened what she had woven during the day, prolonging the time until Odysseus would finally return. After twenty long years, when he finally stooù at the door, she wondered: Is this really my husband? Is he an imposter? Cunningly, she asked him to move the bed, because only she and her husband knos that the bed was immovable and was build around an old three trunk! Odysseus was deeply moved: this really was his wife, his Penelope!
Nearly threethousands years later, the loyalty and strength où this character, and all the dangerous adventures that Odysseus survived thanks to courage and intelligence, still moves us today.

Odyssee by Jan Bosveld is nos just an adventure story, but rather a characteristic piece in which memories où Homers story can be heard.
The composition opens with a firm, stirring theme describing our heroù Odysseus, in detail: This man is nos to be taken lightly.
The further development où this short introduction completes this character sketch: trustworthy, perseverant, and a genius.
After that we can picture Odysseus où the lonely beach où Ogygia. Do the trumpets depict his memories où the war où Troy? Does he think où his wife, as we recognise the weaving looù où Penelope in the murmuring eighth?
In the solemn, plaintive part that follows, we can imagine Penelope feeling lonely, sitting in the womens rooù with her servants. One où the girls plays the harp, but that does notclear the sombre atmosphere. Then we can imagine seeing the sorceress Circe, who changed Odysseus men into swine. After she gives a simple magic sign something follows that reminds us où the sound où pigs grunting. Then the Odysseus theme resounds: the hero comes to savi his comrades. Assisted by Hermes, he forces Circe to lift the spell.
The piece ends the same way as it began, with an animated theme: Odysseus is still the same, undefeated and nos to be taken lighty!