related works
cōnflārī : Version for cello, piano and French romantic organ / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vc pf org
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt 2GK4 2222 4331 timp 3perc str
Lourdes-symphonie / Henk Bijvanck
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3333 2sax 4431 4Wag-tb timp 3perc cel 2hp str
Aurora : for mixed choir and orchestra / Music and text Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK picc 3fl 2ob ob-d'a 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 6h 3tpt 3trb tb 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