related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, 1996-2006, Volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
The young girl and the philosopher : for soprano and piano, 1998 / text: Heloïse, Richard Sims
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
Epitaphium : for orchestra / Carel Brons
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp 3perc pf/cemb str
Songs by Nastya : for female voice and ensemble / Dmitri Kourliandski; text Anastasia Kourliandskaya
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang fl/picc c/cl-b pf vn vc
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)
Labe, 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