related works
Vanitas vanitatum : Three duos for violin and viola after David Bailly / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vn vla
San-Yüeh : for orchestra, opus 26, 1985, rev. 1988 / Leo Samama
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4231 5perc 2hp str
Ouvertüre : for orchestra / Fré Focke
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob 2cl sax-a 2fg cfg 3h 3trp 3trb tb timp xyl cel perc 2vl vla vc cb
Suite Hôtel de Pékin (version with reduced percussion) : for symphony orchestra / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl 2fg(cfg) 2h 2tpt 2trb(trb-b) tb timp 2perc str
composition
Cosmic Cliffs : for chamber orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Author(s):
Kortekaas, Bram
(Composer)
Description:
In 2015 I wrote a composition inspired by an image from the Hubble Space Telescope: The Pillars of Creation. Recently, NASA published the first images that are made with their new James Webb Space Telescope. It includes a picture of the Cosmic Cliffs: a cosmic landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” at the edge of the Carina Nebula, the birthplace of new stars.
The new image captivated me and seemed to deserve a composition of its own. While composing, I envisioned a visit by the Voyager 1 spacecraft to the Cosmic Cliffs. In my imagination it performs its cosmic concert by playing the Voyager Golden Record, which includes amongst others a recording of the Georgian choral song “Chakrulo”. This choir has infinite space as its concert hall, but, perhaps, no-one to listen to it.
The composition mixes a number of feelings and impressions, like the awe for the beauty of the cosmos and the incomprehensible size of the Cosmic Cliffs with its peaks of seven lightyears tall, the desolateness of space and the lonesome trajectory of the Voyager Spacecraft and its music.
Bram Kortekaas