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
Falling "Sturm und Drang" : for orchestra / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 3trb 2perc str
Het wonderlijk uur : suite no. 1, voor orkest / van Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4330 timp perc pf str(vc cb)
Symphonie no. 2 : Prélude à la nouvelle journée, 1919-1920 / Matthijs Vermeulen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4fl(pic) 2ob 2ob(eh) 5cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 2trp-p 4trp 3trb-t tb timp 4perc xyl 2hp str
composition
L'Élue : Prelude pour orchestre / Bram Kortekaas
Author(s):
Kortekaas, Bram
(Composer)
Description:
L'Élue (The Chosen One) is written as a companion piece to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). L'Élue is a prelude not just in the musical sense. Its story precedes the actions the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps.
Stravinsky’s ballet focusses on the collective actions of a pagan tribe. In L'Élue the attention is shifted to the individual within this tribe. The composition explores the feelings of a young woman, who is afraid of becoming the Chosen One for this year’s sacrifice.
Stravinsky’s concept of Day and Night for the first and second part of Le Sacre du Printemps (as described in The Rite of Spring: sketches 1911-1913, page xxi) are mirrored in L'Élue.
The composition starts with an impression of the night (La Nuit). At dawn, the first signs of Spring appear (À l'Aube du Printemps). This is noticed by the young woman, presented by the Alto Flute. The realization that the tribe’s yearly Spring sacrifice approaches fills her with dread. In a premonition, she sees herself as that year’s The Chosen One (La Prémonition de L’Élue). The premonition dissolves, after which Le Sacre du Printemps is performed attacca.