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Orchestral suite of music I composed for the full-length ballet 'Dorian', a modern-day adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic Dorian Gray novel, choreographed by Ernst Meisner and Marco Gerris. The choreographers aimed to bring out the dark, gothic undertones of Wilde's original story, yet retell it in a modern world (a world predominantly concerned with appearances and in which people seek hedoni...

00:03 I. Always with forward motion 11:00 II. Ayre 21:10 III. Scherzo: Night Flight 29:27 IV. Landscape (Live Recording)

Joey Roukens: Requiem (2022), for SATB chorus, string orchestra and percussion. Part One 00:04 1. Invocatio 02:03 2. Introitus 09:01 3. Graduale: Si ambulem 13:10 4. Dies 18:52 5. Oro supplex - Lacrimosa Part Two 24:35 6a. Praeludium 26:38 6b. Interludium I (Under the wide and starry sky) 28:55 7a. Invocatio 30:56 7b. In Paradisum 35:09 8. Interludium II (I am not there) 38:43 9. Offertorium 43...

Joey Roukens: Night Flight, played by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bertie Baigent. A fast, grotesque nightly "carnival ride", this piece will also be the third movement (scherzo) of a forthcoming Symphony in four movements written for the same orchestra. As a stand-alone piece, it was premiered during the International Conducting Competition Rotterdam 2022 as the compulsor...

Joey Roukens: Vertekende Fantasie (naar J.P. Sweelinck) / Distorted Fantasia (after J.P. Sweelinck), for orchestra (2021). Written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as a tribute to Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death. Live recording of first performance at Concertgebouw Amsterdam by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra cond...

Joey Roukens: What Remains, string quartet in two movements I. Strange Oscillations 00:00 II. Motectum 09:41 Played by the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam Live recording of my fourth string quartet 'What Remains' by the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, who premiered the piece during the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam 2020. The piece is cast in two big movements: a driving, motoric post-minimalist first move...

A longer excerpt from Angeli (2018) for 8 cellos and 5 female voices, an extremely serene and introspective piece inspired by Renaissance polyphony based on the Latin 'In Paradisum' text. Performed by Wishful Singing & Cello Octet Amsterdam (Live Recording)

Live recording of the first performance of my 3-movement concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra 'In Unison', written for and premiered by the amazing young Dutch piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, featuring the duo's father Paul Jussen on timpani) conducted by Emilio Pomarico. In Unison (2017) 1. Neon Toccata 0:04 2. What I...

For string orchestra, 6 percussion players, harp and keyboards (celesta/synthesizer). 00:00 I. Manically 03:22 II. Glacially 10:36 III. Propulsively Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Alan Gilbert 'Boundless' was written for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, who requested a homage to the great Leonard Bernstein (anticipating the centennial of the composer/conductor in 2018) that could...

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, conducted by Marc Albrecht. Morphic Waves is a symphony cast in one continuous 23-minute span. Although the piece starts in a manner indebted to American (post)minimalism, the piece gradually takes on a distinctly 'European' symphonic element, with diverging subsections organically morphing into one another in a way that's perhaps more akin to Sibelius 7th Symp...

Nationaal Jeugd Orkest (National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands) cond. Etienne Siebens. A short, highly kinetic orchestral piece evoking a high speed car chase.

Second movement of my two-movement concerto 'Roads to Everywhere' (2015) for violin and ensemble. Live recording of the premiere performance. Joseph Puglia, violin, ASKO|Schönberg conducted by Clark Rundell. The second movement, subtitled ‘Across the Fields’, is basically a slow and melodic movement featuring an unabashedly tonal, tender theme, which gets developed throughout the movement. The ...

First movement of my two-movement concerto 'Roads to Everywhere' (2015) for violin and ensemble. Live recording of the premiere performance. Joseph Puglia, violin, ASKO|Schönberg conducted by Clark Rundell. The first movement, subtitled '(Im)pulses', is mostly a fast movement full of rough-edged energy and syncopated, pulsating rhythms, but there are also more brooding melancholy moments (such ...

This is a compilation of excerpts from various compositions of mine written between 2006 and 2015, ranging from orchestral works to chamber music to opera. I only chose excerpts I hadn't posted on my channel before. This compilation features the following works: 0:00 '365' for orchestra 1:17 Visions at Sea (String Quartet no 3) 3:08 eNergized (from 'Etudes for piano') 5:08 Rising Phenix, for ch...

Joey Roukens : Lost in a Surreal Trip (2014) excerpt

Joey Roukens: Rising Phenix (for chorus and orchestra), Part I

Joey Roukens: Rising Phenix, for chorus and orchestra, part IIa: We are sojourners (excerpt)

Joey Roukens: At Muller's Bar and Dance Hall (Scenes from an old memory box I)

Joey Roukens: Concerto Hypnagogique IV Finale (excerpt)

Joey Roukens: Concerto Hypnagogique, Mvt. II 'Running through Lucid Dreams'

Joey Roukens: Fast Movement (and Epilogue), excerpt

Joey Roukens - Scenes from an old memory box, excerpt slow movement

Joey Roukens - Percussion Concerto (2011), excerpts; Colin Currie percussion

Joey Roukens: Out of Control (2010), for orchestra - excerpts

Joey Roukens - From funeral to funfair, for orchestra, excerpt

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