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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
3 Vocalises : for mixed choir / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
3sopr 3alt 3ten 3bas
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
GK8 tape
composition
Sinfonia de uma noite inquieta : for mixed choir, 1997 / poems by Fernando Pessoa, Joost Kleppe
Other authors:
Pessoa, Fernando
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kleppe, Joost
(Composer)
Contains:
Lento, un poco rubato (sempre intenso, compo un 'fado', ma non troppo vibrato)
Allegro rigoroso (quasi in modo da canzone populare, barbara)
Description:
Program note (English): Sinfonia de uma noite inquieta is based on a text from The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). It is a typical Portuguese ode to sleep, to an inactive world. Or as Pessoa expresses it: 'every action destroys a dream'. In the text a vision is called of extraterrestrial greatness. But eventually there is nothing left but the complaint that it remains a sin not to have slept. This piece arose during a stay in Lisbon, where I began composing with the language and the culture of Portugal in my mind. For this concise 'choral symphony' my plan was to convey the melancholy of a Portuguese fado without the composition being a true fado. - JOOST KLEPPE