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:
GK4 2fl fl(pic) 2ob ob(eh) 2cl cl(cl-b) 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 3-4perc hp pf str tape
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas GK4 0200 0000 str bc
Holland : een hymne voor koor en orkest / muziek Ernest Willem Mulder, tekst Potgieter
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3333 4231 timp 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