related works

Ittrospezione III : (concept II) / Louis Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: cl sax-t h 3trb vibr(mar) 2pf vla cb

Duister : voor 4 stemmig gemengd koor en klanksporen, 1982 / Huub Kerstens

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

Two Songs of Praise : for 6 voices / Johannes de Fossa, Jean Guyot de Châtelet; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK

Four Haikus : for mixed choir / Reza Nakisa; text by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK

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