related works
Serpents and Doves : Bestiary for four female voices / Peter Kerkelov
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo
Scoring:
zang
Quodlibet seria : alto solo, hautbois oblig., choeurs (femmes), orch. à cordes / Jacques Beers
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
alt VK4 0100 0000 str
Deux chansons : pour choeur de femmes et orchestre à cordes ou piano / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra; Female choir and piano
Scoring:
VK3 str / VK3 pf
A song of joys : aug. '38, op. 14 / music: Arij Verhaar, [text] (Walt Whitman)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
bas VK4 1111 1000 timp hp pf str
composition
Time Études : for solo voice, two female choirs and orchestra / Peter Kerkelov
Author(s):
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”.