Uraufführung am 26.11.2004 beim Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Marco Blaauw

blaauw (2004) for double bell trumpet blaauw

= blauw; Dutch for "blue"

"As it deepens towards black... (blue) becomes like an infinite self-absorption which has, and can have, no end. The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white."

Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art, 1911-12

"We love to contemplate blue, not because it adva...