(2025)
Composer Juliana Hodkinson
Instrumentation 3[picc].3[eh].3[EbCl,BCl].2/4.3.3.1/timp,perc/archi
Category Orchestra
Publication year 2026
Catalogue no. B.0949
Duration 7 minutes
These arrangements (Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Notturno and Clara Wieck Schumann’s Romanze) do not provide one definitive interpretation of each movement, but scale up the pianistic material to orchestral format in a way that leaves some space between the two historical periods of then and now. Unless new manuscripts come to light, we will not hear more orchestral music by these two composers than the little we have, and we will not know what they would do with an orchestra if they lived today. These arrangements are hopefully as full of questions as they give answers. There are the questions – for the arranger, and for conductor and musicians – of choice of tempi, how much rubato is feasible for an orchestra (compared with a solo pianist), and how much scope to leave for dynamic variation within the original markings. There is additionally the question for audiences of how to listen to the repertoire omissions of the past. The challenge of solving this in the moment, without pinning the composers’ musical visions down to just one interpretation, is one of the main points of these arrangements.
Notturno – Arrangement of Fanny Mendelsohn
2025 • Juliana Hodkinson
Orchestra
5 minutes
3[picc].3[eh].3[EbCl,BCl].2/4.3.3.1/timp,perc/archi
On/Off
2019 • Juliana Hodkinson, Sophia Kalkau, Ursula Andkjær Olsen
Other
Binaural/ambient sound installation
Lightness
2015 • Juliana Hodkinson
2-6 Instruments
14 minutes
Sound and light theatre for 3 musicians playing safety matches, sandpaper, sand and water, with amplification, optional distortion effects and lighting
(something in capitals)
2017 • Juliana Hodkinson
7+ Instruments
15 minutes
6 or 12 amplified voices – each with an electric/electronic music gadget (amplified), and small bells and any number of instrumentalists
Nothing Breaking/No Care
2016 • Juliana Hodkinson
Solo
15 minutes
One or two performers using voice, three string instruments (optionally electric/amplified), audio playback drone, some active audience objects, threads and scissors
Nothing Breaking the Losing
2016 • Juliana Hodkinson
2-6 Instruments
12 minutes
(One or) two performers with one (electric) string instrument, audio playback drone, some active audience objects, threads, and scissors
Jounce
2016 • Juliana Hodkinson
Solo
4 minutes
Cello using two bows (optionally with attachments)