related works
Dubbelspoor : = (Double track), for ensemble and tape, 1986, revision 1994 / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
vibr(glock) cel cemb pf
Vrees niet, gij klein kuddeke : for mixed choir / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Milonga de Manuel Flores / Ron Ford
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
sopr GK4
Kinder-lijck : gem. koor a cappella, 1944 (rev. '52) / [tekst van] (J. v.d. Vondel), Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir; Vocal ensemble (2-12)
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas / GK4
composition
Flora Tristan : for mixed choir a cappella, 1990 / text by Fleur Bourgonje, Louis Andriessen
Other authors:
Bourgonje, Fleur
(Text writer/Librettist)
Andriessen, Louis
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): (Premiere: 23-3-1994 - Lincoln Center, New York - New York Virtuoso Singers, cond. Harold Rosenbaum). The multilingual text written by Fleur Bourgonje gave me the idea to write the composition in two different tempi that sound simultaneously: the male voices sing fast the narrative Spanish texts and the female voices always sing slow, like the invocations from Flora Tristan to her daughter. To the end of the piece, after the assault in the text, all the voices come together in the same rhythm. - LOUIS ANDRIESSEN