related works
cōnflārī : Version for cello, piano and French romantic organ / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vc pf org
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3323 sar/cfg 4332 timp 3perc hp pf str(0.13.10.8.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
bar GK4 community-singing 3222 4230 perc str
In illo tempore : voor twee solisten, koor en orkest / Mathieu Geelen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
alt bas-bar GK4 2222 2231 timp 3perc str
composition
Ausschweifungen : for chamber orchestra and optional choir / Rick van Veldhuizen
Other authors:
Veldhuizen, Rick van
(Composer)
Description:
Ausschweifungen is a tender fairy tale dedicated to a Ukrainian lover I met in Berlin, who passes his days half-conscious, on a whim. The fairy tale is that this person - who is the hero of the piece - with a blurry peripheral vision and sometimes half asleep in the street, has voices pitying him tenderly chanting to him, before a terrifying swarm of birds come to wake him up and exalt him (as those who live on the edge are hardly terrified by what would normally be seen as aberrant or terrifying).
Most of the piece is a vacillating, microtonal lullaby, which then flies off the rails and into a crooked - but sumptuous - apotheosis.
Rick van Veldhuizen