gerelateerde werken

L'Élue : Prelude pour orchestre / Bram Kortekaas

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: picc 3fl(picc) fl-a 3ob 2eh 3cl 2cl-b 3fg 2cfg 8h 5tpt(tpt-b) 3trb 2tb 2timp 3perc str

Monument 21 : voor orkest, (1999) / Caroline Berkenbosch

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl 2sax-a sax-t 2fg 2h 3trp 3trb tb perc pf str

Symphonie / Joh. Bordewijk-Roepman

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3332 4331 timp perc hp str

Symphonie no. 2 : geschreven te Minusio zomer 1921 / Willem Pijper

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 4444 8441 tenh timp 3perc 4hp 6man org 3pf(cel) str

compositie

Cosmic Cliffs : for chamber orchestra / Bram Kortekaas

Overige auteurs:
Kortekaas, Bram (Componist)
Toelichting:
In 2015 I wrote a composition inspired by an image from the Hubble Space Telescope: The Pillars of Creation. Recently, NASA published the first images that are made with their new James Webb Space Telescope. It includes a picture of the Cosmic Cliffs: a cosmic landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” at the edge of the Carina Nebula, the birthplace of new stars.
The new image captivated me and seemed to deserve a composition of its own. While composing, I envisioned a visit by the Voyager 1 spacecraft to the Cosmic Cliffs. In my imagination it performs its cosmic concert by playing the Voyager Golden Record, which includes amongst others a recording of the Georgian choral song “Chakrulo”. This choir has infinite space as its concert hall, but, perhaps, no-one to listen to it.
The composition mixes a number of feelings and impressions, like the awe for the beauty of the cosmos and the incomprehensible size of the Cosmic Cliffs with its peaks of seven lightyears tall, the desolateness of space and the lonesome trajectory of the Voyager Spacecraft and its music.
Bram Kortekaas