related works
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring:
zang/rec-t str tape
Verdwenen : 2006 / Merlijn Twaalfhoven
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar KK GK4 3fl/picc 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb tb timp hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK8 speaking-choir 2222 2121 timp 4perc 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