related works
unde imber et ignes : for soprano and orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-solo 2fl(picc) fl-a(picc) ob ob(obdam) eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-ten trb-b tb timp 3perc hp str
Geschreven in het teken des kruizes / tekst van Jules Deelder, Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 fl 2ob 2fg 2h trp 2trb trb-b 4timp perc org str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2222 2200 timp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
ten bar bas GK fl fl-a cl bcl tim perc pf 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