related works

Night and Day Hymns : Dynamic études for piano solo / Peter Kerkelov

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

De dagen na de kruisiging : proloog van de opera Bar Abbas, 3 solostemmen, vrouwenkoor en orkest, (1986) / tekst: Ab van Eyk, Simon Pluister

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Female choir and orchestra; Opera
Scoring: sopr ten bar VK3 2121 sax-a 1230 2perc hp pf(cel) str

Sous le pont Mirabeau : pour soprano, contr'alto, flûte, harpe et quatuor à cordes (ou orchestre à cordes), 1936 (nouvelle revision 1944) / musique de Daniël Ruyneman, paroles de Guillaume Apollinaire

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s); Vocal ensemble (2-12) and orchestra; Female choir and instrument(s); Female choir and orchestra
Scoring: sopr alt / VK2 fl hp 2vl vla vc / 1000 0000 hp str(vl vla vc)

Deirdre : voor 2 spreekstemmen, vrouwenkoor, 2 harpen, slagwerk en strijkorkest, 2002 / op tekst van A. Roland Holst, tekstbew.: Bernard van Beurden, Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Female choir and orchestra
Scoring: 2recit VK3 2hp 2timp 2perc str

composition

Time Études : for solo voice, two female choirs and orchestra / Peter Kerkelov

Other authors:
Kerkelov, Peter (Composer)
Description:
"Time Etudes" does not attempt to musically deal with the subject of time as a deep philosophical question – infinity, stillness, immensity. Instead it uses the idea of “human” time – measurable, cyclical, finite... But human in time is far beyond the numbers he creates. It is about observation, childhood memories, rituals – all kinds of vital acts, that need time to unfold and thus we to unfold through them. And that merging of needless measure and foolish emotion is what gives time a true paradoxical beauty. The (close to) equally long studies of this composition are like six identically sized canvases, in which same spaces of density and emptiness are rearranged in different ways. It is a trial of a hopeless plea to understand what to do with “all this time”, to find the connection. But may be at the end of all this Hamlet awaits and retorts: “The time is out of joint”.