related works
Spijkerboor : for ensemble, 2002 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2010 2sax 1121 perc g g-b pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
alt 2vl vla vc / alt str(vl vla vc)
Sappho's tears : for female voice, tenor recorder and violin, 1990 / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
female voice rec-t vl
Stay O Sweet : for soprano, oboe, string trio and harpsichord / Elena Langer; Lyrics John Donne
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang ob vl vla vc cemb
composition
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Author(s):
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