related works
(un)mensch : for symphonic wind orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Band
Scoring:
picc 2fl fl-a 2ob eh 2fg cfg 4cl cl-b cl-ca 5sax 2corn 3tpt 4h 2trb-t trb-b euph tb timp 5perc hp pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3021 0000 str
Requiem pro Elisabeth : for choir and small orchestra, 1998 / Bernard Bartelink
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar GK4 1101 1000 str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3344 2sax 4331 5perc 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