related works
Purcelliana : for organ (four hands-four feet), 1999 / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org 4-h
HCE : for soprano and ensemble / Robert Groslot; text by James Joyce
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
zang fl(picc/fl-a) ob hp cemb 2vn vla vc db
Grenzeloos : voor sopraan en fanfareorkest, 1991 / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble; Voice and wind band
Scoring:
sopr 0000 4sax 3333 3bug timp perc
Des Knaben Wunderhorn : Version with nine songs / Gustav Mahler, arr. Dimitris Andrikopoulos
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
voice 1111 1100 3perc hp pf harm 3perc 2vl vla vc cb
composition
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Author(s):
Clare, John
(Text writer/Librettist)
Bank, Jacques
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The John Clare Triptych consists of three compositions dedicated to the life and work of the English poet John Clare. He was born in the little country village of Helpston (Northhamptonshire) in 1793 as son of a poor farmhand and died in a lunatic asylum in 1864. Clare's main problem was his homelessness. He didn't belong to the simple, non-intellectual world of his native region. Neither did he to the intellectual, arrogant world of the literary hotshots in London. Nor to the seeminly uncomplicated world of the gypsies. Even the asylum, where he stayed for the last twenty years of his life, was not his home. He wasn't mad. He just couldn't manage life. - Part 3: John Clare consists of six songs based on a number of diary notes, Clare's most famous poem 'I am !' and the heartrending, last letter he wrote in the asylum. - JACQUES BANK