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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
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Crudele acerba : voor 5 solo stemmen of 5-stemmig gemengd koor, 1985 / Huub Kerstens
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12); Mixed choir
Scoring:
sopr sopr-m alt ten bas / GK5
De Profundis : voor gemengd koor / André Laporte
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