gerelateerde werken
Fêtes à tensions: (les) eaux marchent : for 20 players / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
fl(picc, fl-a) ob cl cl-b fg h trp trb 2perc hp pf 3vl 2vla 2vc db
Ereprijs in haar keel : voor sopraan en ensemble / Chiel Meijering; lyrics by Piet Gerbrandy
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
pic fl cl sax-s sax-a h trp 2trb tb perc pf g-el g-b
Speechless : for voice and ensemble / Maarten Altena
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
zang fl-a ob cl fg h tpt trb 3cymb pf hp 2vn vla vlc db
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
sopr 1121 1110 perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb
compositie
Schumann’s Ghosts : for soprano ad lib. and ensemble / Luc Brewaeys
Overige auteurs:
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.