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Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sopr-mezzo fl(fl-a, picc) vc hp 3pf
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
bar 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h trp trb perc fortepf cb electronics
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
ten 1121 1110 perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
Voices in the dark : for soprano, winds, bassguitar and piano, 1979 / Charles van der Leeuw
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
sopr 1010 3sax 2220 g-b pf
compositie
Schumann’s Ghosts : for soprano ad lib. and ensemble / Luc Brewaeys
Auteur(s):
Brewaeys, Luc
(Componist)
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.