related works

The Pied Piper and the Cars : Opera for soprano, bass, two choirs, wind instruments, percussion and electronics / Peter Kerkelov; Libretto by Dragomir Yossifov, based on self-titled story by Gianni Rodari

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang GK KK 3fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg(cfg) 2h 2tpt 3trb tb 2perc hp pf tape

Het lied van den Wind : for female choir and orchestra / Rosy Wertheim; words by J.A. van Draagenbroeck

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Female choir and orchestra
Scoring: VK orchestra

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

Twee ballades : voor vrouwenkoor en kamerorkest (oorspr. piano) / [tekst van] (Paul Fort), Willem Pijper

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Female choir and orchestra
Scoring: VK3 1110 1000 perc str(2.2.2.2.1.)

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”.