related works
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring:
zang/rec-t str tape
Missa concertata : (1970) / Marius Monnikendam
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas GK4 2222 4330 timp perc hp pf org str
Jiskor : Version for mixed choir and orchestra / Jaakov Rabin, orchestration by Hans Lachman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
bar GK 2fl 2ob 2bn 2tr hp str perc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2222 2220 timp perc 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