related works
Violin Concerto 'Out of the Deep' : for violin and orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and orchestra
Scoring:
vn-solo 3fl(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb timp 3perc hp pf/cell str
5 Chansons : voor zang, hobo en piano / Hans Lachman; Words by Charles Baudelaire
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang ob pf
Suite : voor mezzosopraan, fluit en guitar / Hans Lachman; Words by William Shakespeare
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m fl gt
The snow man : for soprano, percussion and bass-clarinet / text by Wallace Stevens, Walter Hekster
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr cl-b 3perc
composition
Angeli : for 5 female voices and 8 celli / Joey Roukens
Other authors:
Roukens, Joey
(Composer)
Description:
Angeli is a piece written for eight cellos and five female voices (2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano and 2 altos), based on two texts (In Paradisum and Absolve Domine) taken from the Latin liturgy. I have always loved classical music of the sacred tradition, whether by Machaut, Josquin, Bach, Cherubini, Bruckner or Stravinsky, and in this piece I’ve tried to write my own kind of ‘sacred music’. Despite the texts coming from the Requiem Mass, it’s not a sad or dark piece. Rather, the character of the music is mostly serene, introverted and hopeful, since I wanted to emphasize the consoling nature of those texts. There is a middle section, though, where the music becomes highly energetic, even euphoric. In this piece I wanted to create a kind of imaginary or dreamed ‘early music’. Thus, the piece is full of echoes of old polyphonic styles and contrapuntal techniques, but at the same time one can clearly hear it's contemporary music, because of the strange, unpredictable harmonic twists and turns one won't find in any early music.