related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, 1996-2006, Volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

I am Ericka : for mixed choir, 1972, revision 1988 / text: Ericka Huggins, Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK3

Drei Motetten : für Chor a cappella / Julius Röntgen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK4

Motetus : (quasi in modo antico), for six-part a cappella choir, 1987 / Joep Straesser

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK6

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