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
Vom Jahreslauf / [Text] (Rudolf Steiner), Henri Zagwijn
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK8 3333 4331 timp perc cel 2hp 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
Syrinx : for choir and orchestra / Carlos Micháns; text by Ovid
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3333 4331 timp 4perc 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