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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m fl picc ob eh cl cl-b 2fg 2h tpt trb tb timp perc hp synth str
Voordat ik zag : voor koor, strijkkwartet en orkest / Douwe Eisenga, tekst: Herman van Veen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2fl/picc 2ob 2cl 2fg hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bsn 4h 2tp 2trb tb perc hp str soundtrack
With or Without : for chamber orchestra and choir / Chiel Meijering; text by the composer
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2clBb 2bsn sax-a fr.h tpt trb dr 2vl vla vc cb SATB
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