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
Lebensfaden : für Chor und Orchester / Roland Voortman; Gedicht: Maria Janitschek
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK8 3333 4331 timp 3perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
recit bar GK4 3202 0321 timp perc pf org str
Stabat Mater : voor sopraan, tenor gemengd koor en orkest, 1998 / Jacques Reuland
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten GK4 1111 2220 perc str(vla vc 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