related works

Concert voor piano en orkest / Ton de Leeuw

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Piano and orchestra
Scoring: pic 2fl 2ob 2cl cl-b 2fg 2h 2trp 3trb timp perc str pf-solo

Psalmus CL : for mixed choir, brass quintet and timpani / Christian Blaha

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: GK4 2tpt h trb tb timp

Roulette of moments : for choir (percussion and strings ad lib.), 1979 / Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir; Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: GK4 (perc str ad lib.)

Lecture : for 16 singers, 2 clarinets, horn and 2 double-basses, 1985 / Ivo van Emmerik

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: 4sopr 4alt 4ten 4bas 2cl h 2cb

composition

Lamento pacis I : for choir and instruments / Ton de Leeuw; text by Erasmus

Other authors:
Erasmus, Desiderius (Text writer/Librettist)
Leeuw, Ton de (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): (Première: June 14, 1969 - NCRV Vocal Ensemble and Percussion Group Amsterdam, Marinus Voorberg, conducting - Holland Festival) -
Erasmus completed Querela Pacis in 1517. This complaint of peace provides us with a striking view of the restless political situation in those years. It contains a large number of protests against nearly all the leading persons and institutions from political, social and religious life, and culminates in a call for true peace, which in its failure is just as pathetic as corresponding pleas from our time. Nothing than the works in Erasmus' oeuvre can better function as a bridge to our own time. This text was the foundation of a composition for a 16 voiced choir and eight instrumentalists. Only some selected fragments were used from the original text. I was more concerned about the moral aspects of the contents and the direct understanding of it. . This comprehension is nearly excluded because the choir sings the original Latin version, and by the complex manner of textual treatment. The composition has three movements, which greatly differ in character from each other (they can be also
be performed separately). The first movement characterises itself by large, monolithic block-systems, which are opposite to each other. For that purpose the performers are separated into two spatial groups. These passages are interrupted by smaller, more transparent fragments, which have an entirely different character, among others due to the multiple use of microtones. Microtones are in our time what chromaticism was in the time of Gesualdo da Venosa. For this reason this movement is a homage to this Italian master. - TON DE LEEUW