related works
mais le corps taché d'ombres : for harp and string orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and string orchestra
Scoring:
hp-solo str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2221 2220 timp perc pf str
Hoplopoia : voor kamerkoor en orkest, (1973) / Wim de Ruiter
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
4sopr 4alt 4ten 4bas 2221 2210 2perc str(12.10.8.6.4.)
Arnhemsche psalm : voor soli, koor en orkest / op tekst van Jan Engelman, Herman Strategier
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
recit sopr bar GK4 2222 4330 timp perc hp 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