related works
De negen symfonieën van Beethoven : voor promenade-orkest en ijscobel / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3 trb timp 2perc pf el.g g-b str
De mei is gekomen : voor gemengd koor / Israel Olman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
8soloists GK8
Magnificat : for mixed choir, 1985, revision 1987 / Xander Hunfeld
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
4sopr 4alt 3ten 3bas
composition
Flora Tristan : for mixed choir a cappella, 1990 / text by Fleur Bourgonje, Louis Andriessen
Author(s):
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