related works
Serpents and Doves : Bestiary for four female voices / Peter Kerkelov
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo
Scoring:
zang
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)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
VK4 2000 0000 pf4h str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar VK4 3222 4230 timp hp 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”.