related works

Registers : for piano / Louis Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Giammateo Asola’s Psalter : Psalms for 5 voices / Various composers; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: voices

The word unfinished : text on a lost language, for 16 choir groups and 9 sound tracks, opus 49, 1998/1999 / texts by Peter te Nuyl based on Aeschylus - Prometheus, Plato - The cave, King James Bible - Genesis 11, 1-9, Huub Kerstens

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: GK4 soundtracks

Wie wenn am Feiertage : voor vocaal ensemble, 1983 / tekst: Friedrich Hölderlin, Klaas Govers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12); Mixed choir
Scoring: 3voices / GK3

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