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
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
alt bar GK4 2121 2200 timp 2perc pf cemb el.org str
Missa Majellana : 4-stemmig gemengd koor en orgel (strijkorkest ad libitum), 1984 / Nico Hermans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra; Mixed choir and organ
Scoring:
GK4 org (str ad lib.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob 2cl fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb-ten trb-b tb timp perc GK 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