composer
Peter Kerkelov is a composer possessing ascetic sincerity and profound straightforwardness His works very often cross over the limits of mere sonic games and aim to the fields of philosophy, ...
related works
Windows and Oranges : for accordion and string orchestra / Peter Kerkelov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Accordion and string orchestra
Scoring:
acc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and instrument(s); Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and orchestra; Women and instrument(s); Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt / VK2 fl hp 2vl vla vc / 1000 0000 hp str(vl vla vc)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2sopr VK2 hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
VK4 2101 sax-a 1100 perc org str
composition
Time Études : for solo voice, two female choirs and orchestra / Peter Kerkelov
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”.