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Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Woodwind ensemble (2-12 players)
The end : seven songs for bass/baritone solo, 1992 / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bas-bar ; bas-bar instr
The blue woman : for soprano and ensemble, 1999/2000 / poems: Wallace Stevens, Wim Laman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl cl(bh) pf vl vc
Deng Deng : for Ziggurat ensemble / Theo Loevendie
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m panfl sax-s duduk(Paetzold) qunum(voice) perc erhu vdg cb
composition
Le cheval mort : mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet, piano, percussion: marimba + tamtam, 2 synthesizers, 4 channel tape / text: Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Other authors:
Bertrand, Aloysius
(Text writer/Librettist)
Eisma, Will
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The compositions Le Gibet and Le Cheval Mort were set to surrealistic poems by Aloysius Bertrand from his collection: Gaspard de la nuit, septième livre, Pièces détachées. The wonderful ambience derived from the poems inspired me to set some of these to music. The text of the poems expresses the dramatic environment of a battlefield and a graveyard. This lends itself easily to natural nocturnal sounds, bloodcurdling whistling and cracking noises. This is, however, something I wanted to avoid. I have tried to create an unreal atmosphere in my music. In Le Cheval Mort the electronics are prominent, especially in the second half of the work. It was written for the music festival in Witten, Germany and received its première there in 1976. - WILL EISMA