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:
GK8 3333 4331 timp 3perc hp str
Stabat mater dolorosa : sequentia / [tekst] Kruysklaght J. v/d Vondel, Ernest W. Mulder
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas GK4 2222 3230 timp str
Aleph : voor gemengd koor en orkest, 1999 / Klaas de Vries
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 3333 4331 perc hp pf 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