related works
Klein protocol : voor viool en cello / Will Eisma
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
vl vc
En Hollande : for soprano and string quartet / Leo Samama; text Paul Verlaine
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr 2vn vla vc
Windstreken : voor de verenigde ensembles van een muziekschool en geluidsband, 1981 / Wim Franken
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Children's choir and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
KK2 2rec 5252 6320 timp 5perc 2hp 2g g-b 2acc el.org cemb pf4h 6vl 2vc tape
Two love poems : for voice, clarinet, viola, cello and harpsichord / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice cl vla vc cemb
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by 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. The live electronics in Le Gibet were consciously set to the background. But there is one moment in which the electronic sounds predominate: shortly before the end is a burst of instrumental resonance. - WILL EISMA