related works
The Memory of Roses / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano; Piano 4 hands; Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
pf / pf4h / vl pf / vc / ob trb glock / hp / voice pf / sopr fl vc / GK4
Prayer of John Henry Newman : for mixed choir / Rens Tienstra
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Van de lente : for male choir, female choir and soprano solo / Israel Olman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
sopr MK VK
Elis : for a cappella mixed choir, 1987 / (poems by Georg Trakl), Henri Delnooz
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
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