related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Concerto : for piano and ensemble / Bram Van Camp
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
pf-solo fl/picc ob/eh cl cl-b sax-bar/sax-a fg h tpt trb perc hp
Twilight Visions : Version for oboe and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Oboe and string orchestra
Scoring:
ob str
The end of a specimen : for orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4431 6perc 2hp pf str
composition
Knot : 2001, texts based on excerpts from various authors / Astrid Kruisselbrink
Other authors:
Baudelaire, Charles
(Text writer/Librettist)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(Text writer/Librettist)
Couperus, Louis
(Text writer/Librettist)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(Text writer/Librettist)
Labé, Louise
(Text writer/Librettist)
Levy, Amy
(Text writer/Librettist)
Ovidius
(Text writer/Librettist)
Parker, Dorothy
(Text writer/Librettist)
Tsjeng (Meester)
(Text writer/Librettist)
Woolf, Virginia
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The title of the work has several meanings. To begin with, that ball of wool, the knot of wool. That arises after spinning and weaving, two important traditional hand activities which women have always done. By means of the texts by Ovidius and among other things the harpsichord these jobs are converted into sound and will regularly return. Thus we all are familiar with the knot. Which here symbolizes several hairstyles (appearances) and the female vanity of longing to create. The several (appearances) forms, among other things bringing forward through the usage of different text sources, sound at the same time which results in the piling up of messy tangles, in own her own hair but also with each other, with leads us to the English meaning of knot. All in all the need arises to make knots. Such as one saws off the branches of a knot-willow tree forming a bald knot, whereupon new flexible willow tree branches can grow, and those branches are moreover suitable for basket
weaving.... but that is possibly something for a piece in the future. - ASTRID KRUISSELBRINK