related works
Purcelliana : for organ (four hands-four feet), 1999 / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org 4-h
Vier gedichten van M. Nijhoff : voor een zangstem en 15 instrumenten, 1935 / Piet Ketting
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m 2230 0000 perc pf acc vl 2vla vc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m cemb 7vl 2vla 2vc cb
1494 : for voice and instrumental ensemble / Kim Bowman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr(perc) 1001 2200 2perc hp pf vl vla vc cb / sopr(perc) 1001 2200 2perc hp pf str
composition
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Other authors:
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