related works

Metselwerk : (Brickwork), for solo-percussion and orchestra, 1979, (rev. 1987) / Will Eisma

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Percussion and orchestra
Scoring: 2222 2210 hp str perc-solo

Je vis, Je meurs - song cycle : Version for soprano, string quartet and harp / Monique Krüs

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr str hp

Denkmal an der Grenze des Fruchtlandes : voor sopraan en 9 instrumenten / Alex Manassen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr pic ob cl fg h pf vl vla vc

To whom : for soprano and ensemble, opus 23, 1973/2000 / poem by Adrian Mitchell, Peter Schat

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr 2cl 3fg h trp pf el.g el. g-b

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