gerelateerde werken

Raas en de basketbal : Versie voor verteller en kamerorkest / Bram Kortekaas; tekst Jibbe Willems

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Spreekstem en orkest
Bezetting: spreekstem 2fl/picc 2ob 2cl 2fg/cfg 2h 2tpt trb [erc str

Sinfonietta : per orchestra, 1940/41 / Jan van Dijk

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2233 4331 timp perc hp pf str

See-through : for orchestra, 2000, revision 2001 / Michel van der Aa

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: pic fl 2ob 2cl cl-b fg 4h 4trp 3trb tb 4perc hp str

Tripel-concert : voor viool, cello, piano en orkest / Hans Lachman

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: vl vc pf 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bn 4h 2tr 3trb 2perc 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