related works
mais le corps taché d'ombres : for harp and string orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harp and string orchestra
Scoring:
hp-solo str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2010 0000 harm str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2fl(picc/fl-a) 2ob(eh) 2cl sax-a 2fg(cfg) 2h 2tpt 2trb(trb-b) tb perc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra; Mixed choir and wind band; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
6recit sopr alt ten bas 2GK4 MK4 6rec 2222 4330 perc hp 3org str wind-band: 1131 3sax 1202 3crt barh euph perc cb
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