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
De zee en het land : declamatorium, 1953 / muziek van Hendrik Andriessen, tekst van Bertus Aafjes
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2recit GK8 3222 4331 timp perc hp str
Lenteliedje : for mixed choir and chamber orchestra / Israel Olman; words by C. Lanis Leipoldt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK orch
Kerstliederen : voor koor en orkest / Otto Ketting
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 1111 2000 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