related works
cōnflārī : Version for cello, piano and Dutch/German baroque organ / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vc pf org
Lyrische suite : voor orchest en koor / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 1010 sax-a 0100 timp perc str
De zee (De sé) : voor 3-stemmig gemengd koor en orkest / Henk Alkema; tekst: Hessel van der Wal
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK3 3223 4331 3perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten bar GK4 2222 4331 timp perc 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