shade bluish, sometimes a golden light is added. Treatment of the 12 voices in his work about the “Cantique des Cantiques” [Song of Songs] also remains diatonic, both in his pianissimo and forte. His work on part of “l’Apocalypse” [The Book of Revelation] provides a new timbral element with staccato of the horn and the clarinet. Plainsong is introduced in his “Psaumes pour la Messe des Morts” [Psalms for the Requiem Mass], as well as dramatic effects where the beating of the tam-tam comes up against the ostinatos of the marimba, against the calls of the female voice. There are even bunches of chords with the use of modes. But the spirit always remains diatonic in a static way that is very close to the type of oriental music which penetrates the listener and gets him into a semi-oneiric state, the state of a waking dream.' Ton de Leeuw wrote about 160 compositions, spanning the whole range from solo pieces to complete operas, but it is the vocal and, more specifically, the choral works which reveal most clearly what he was striving to obtain: a conjunction of the essence of past and present, a link between Eastern and Western thought, and the result was a unique purity of expression. His last work, 'Three Shakespeare Songs', was performed on 13 June 1996 by Rosemary Hardy with the Ensemble InterContemporain. Selected recordings Mouvements rétrogades Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Szell, BFO, 1988 Mouvements rétrogades Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, Ernest Bour, Olympia, 1989 Modal Music for accordion Miny Dekkers, BFO 1990 Sweelinckvariations for organ Lien van der Vliet, Composers Voice, 1991 Symphonies of Winds Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Composers Voice, 1992 Haiku II for soprano and orchestra, Elena Vink, Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, Ed Spanjaard, Composers Voice, 1992 Les Adieux for piano René Eckhardt, NMClassics 1992 Hommage a Henri for clarinet and piano Sjef Douwes, Jan Gruithuyzen NMClassics, 1992 Résonances for orchestra, Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, Ed Spanjaard, Composers Voice, 1992 Trio for flute, bass clarinet and piano Harrie Starrveld, Harry Sparnaay, René Eckhardt NMClassics, 1992 Cinq hymnes Netherlands Chamber Choir, Reinbert de Leeuw, Gerrit Kommerson, Paul Prenen, piano, Herman Halewijn, Ger de Zeeuw, percussion, NMClassics, 1993 Men go their ways for piano Ivo Janssen, NMClassics, 1994 Men go their ways for piano Ljuba Moiz, Dynamic, 2001 Danses sacrées for piano and orchestra, David Kuyken, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, NMClassics, 1994 Missa brevis Quink Vocal Ensemble,