related works
Eauman : for baritone and string quartet / Text and music by Rick and Veldhuizen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang 2vn vla vc
Naar de maan : voor vrouwenkoor, gemengd koor en orkest / op text van Bert Schierbeek, Nico Schuyt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
VK3 GK3 4222 2200 timp 6perc pf4h str
Canto Inferno : for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra / Maxim Shalygin; poem by Robert Frost
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2fl (picc/fl-a) 2ob 2cl 2bsn 4h 2tp 2trb trb-b tb hrp sopr-solo SATB str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten bas GK8 pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl 2fg cfg 6h 3trp 3trb tb timp 4perc str
composition
Ausschweifungen : for chamber orchestra and optional choir / Rick van Veldhuizen
Author(s):
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