The Secret of Mercury Jan de Haan

Titel / Title: The Secret of Mercury
Herausgeber / Publisher: De Haske Publications
Instrumentation: Concert Band/Harmonie
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Concert and Contest Collection CBHA
Sprache / Language: English-German-French-Dutch
Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 2022
Genre: Konzertwerk
ISMN: 9790035245217

This work was commissioned by the concert band Da Capo Leeuwarden from the Netherlands, which was linked with the Dutch postal service PTT up until 1995. Mercury happens to be the messenger of the gods a kind of mailman, one could say. Yet the composer did not choose the god but the planet Mercury as his source of inspiration for this work in four uninterrupted movements. He created a multifaceted work in which the mysterious celestial body is represented, as well as a number of space missions exploring it. This interesting subject matter guarantees a composition that fascinates from start to finish.