related works
les grillons sont d’exquises bruiteurs : for two pianists and a percussionist / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2pf perc
Yizkor : cantata for soprano, mixed choir and symphony orchestra / Josef Malkin
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr GK5 pic fl fl(fl-a) 2ob 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 3h trp trp(trp-p) 2trb trb-b tb timp 2perc hp cel pf str(14.12.10.8.6.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
ten 2recit GK4 3222 4331 3perc hp str pf-solo
Quid hoc dementiae est? : for double choir and orchestra, 2004 / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2GK4 1202 2230 timp perc hp 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