componist
Luc Brewaeys werd geboren in 1959 te Mortsel (België). Hij studeerde compositie bij André LAPORTE in Brussel, bij Franco DONATONI in Siena (Italiê) en bij Brian FERNEYHOUGH in Darmstadt (Duitsland).
gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest met elektronica
Verzamelde liederen / arr. Toek Numan, Modest Musorgskij
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
ten-c 2perc 2vibr hp 7vl 4vla 2vc cb
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
bas-bar 1110 sax-t crt 2perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
compositie
Schumann’s Ghosts : for soprano ad lib. and ensemble / Luc Brewaeys
Toelichting:
This small piece was commissioned by the Ictus Ensemble and composed in 1999. It was (the first) part of a cycle of "arrangements/revisits" of the song cycle op. 99 by Robert Schumann, realized by 7 composers, among them Jonathan Harvey. The idea was to keep untouched the vocal line composed by Schumann, while everything alse was totally free to each composer's discretion. I received song n° 1 "Lied des Schmiedes" (Song of the smith), which is very staightforward and harmonically very simple. I just kept the basic harmony and filled it with different moods, at places with many notes. I took a lot of fun realizing this, quoted Mahler (2nd Symphony) and Janacek (Glagolithic Mass) and made a grotesque kind of Foxtrot in the third verse. At the end a cuckoo sings "goodbye", while repeating sharpening by a quarter tone each time and the ensemble desintegrates before playing the conclusive bars which are a perfect mirror of the first two. I intentionally previewed two versions, with or without the voice. The first performance took place in december '99 in Brussels by Mitsuko Shirai with the Ictus Ensemble under George-Elie Octors.