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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
Préludes: Premier livre : for orchestra / Claude Debussy / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
2fl fl-a(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb 3perc hp cel str
Canzoni e rondo : per orchestra, opus 956, 1998 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
1122 2000 str
6 Etats intermédiaires : Sinfonia for orchestra / Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
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