related works
De volharding : = (Perseverance), for piano and wind instruments, (1972) / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble and keyboard instrument (3-8 players)
Scoring:
3sax 3trp 3trb pf
Consolations : for mixed choir a cappella, 1992 / poem by Park Benjamin, Willem Duyn
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
bar GK4
I taste a liquor never brewed : for chamber choir, (1955) / text by Emily Dickinson, Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK3
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