" PROSPULSION " (2003) FOR COMBUSTION CHAMBER ENSEMBLE.
Combustion Chamber Ensemble :
Rutger van Leyden (director), Remco Jak (alto saxophone), Maarten van Norden (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone), Bas Apswoude (baritone saxophone), Allard Robert (horn), Frank Anepool (trumpet), Jeroen Drenth (trombone), Pauline Post (piano), Fedor Teunisse (marimba, percussion), Hans van der Meer (drums, percussion), Bas Wiegers (violin), Wiek Hymans (electric guitar), Florian Friedrich (bass guitar).
Recorded live in 2004 at Grand Theatre / Groningen .
Commissioned by the AMSTERDAMSE RAAD voor de KUNST .
RELEASED ON C.D. " INTERCONNECTOR " BY COMBUSTION CHAMBER (BVHAAST 0804)
www.bvhaast.nl
PRESS
On Combustion Chamber / c.d. “Interconnector”:
“Frank Crijns's "Prospulsion" shows that the ensemble can venture out into more harmonically challenging territory without sacrificing a sense of compositional architecture”
(Dan Warburton,
paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2005/05may_text2.html )
“ Frank Crijns is responsible for writing “Prospulsion”, a complete different piece with echoes of Arnold Schoenberg and Miles Davis ”
(SR)
“ and the fanciful “Prospulsion” by Frank Crijns offered further proof of the Combustion Band’s amazing versatility combined with precision and fervour”
(E.J.Roozendaal, PCZ , 2OO4)
“ in Frank Crijns “Prospulsion” the pulse wages a fascinating struggle with looming stagnation ”
(J. Valkenburg, NRC Handels blad, 2005)