related works
Etude no. 2 : voor piano / Hans Henkemans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
She weeps over Rahoon : for soprano and orchestra, 1980, Roel van Oosten / [text] (James Joyce)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 4231 timp perc hp pf str
Zij sluimert : voor tenor of sopraan en orkest, 1900 / Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
high 0131 4030 str(vla vc cb)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 4354 4341 7perc 3hp 2man 2g str
composition
Chamber music : a cycle of eight songs for tenor voice and small orchestra, 1991 / poems by James Joyce, Hans Henkemans
Other authors:
Joyce, James
(Text writer/Librettist)
Henkemans, Hans
(Composer)
Contains:
Andantino
Allegretto molto tranquillo
Allegretto leggiero
Andante con moto, quasi rubato
Allegro non lento
Vivo
Quasi lento
Allegro non troppo, ma feroce
Description:
Program note (English): [Première: 11-12-1992 - Vredenburg, Utrecht - Ian Partridge, tenor with the Radio Chamber Orchestra, David Porcelijn, conducting] - The texts of the song cycle Chamber Music have been taken from a collection of poetry by James Joyce which was published in 1907. Joyce, who received a musical education in Paris for concert singer, published his own texts. The sleeve of the publication by Jonathan Cape mention among others this: Elusive and formal, these poems are, above all, musical. Joyce, who trained as a singer in Paris, set of to write of lyrics that could be sung, and their imagery - characteristically - appeals chiefly to the ear. Echoes from books, together with images from musical instruments, contribute to Joyce's "elegant and antique phrase". His models are the Elizabethan lyricists, the airs of Dowland and the words of Shakespeare. I have selected eight of the 36 poems for this cycle. - HANS HENKEMANS