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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
Concerto : voor 2 violen, altviool, cello en orkest / Julius Röntgen
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
2vl-solo vla-solo vc-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp timp str
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
fl pic 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb timp perc hp str
Zes symfonische epigrammen : = (Six symphonic epigrams), for orchestra, 1928 / Willem Pijper
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
3fl fl(pic) 3ob eh 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 4trp 4trb tb timp 3perc 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