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Allarme enigmatico : for string quartet / Bram Kortekaas

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Strijkkwartet (2 violen, altviool, cello)
Bezetting: 2vn vla vc

Heterophonic : for orchestra / Evrim Demirel

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

Night Setting : for orchestra / Walter Hekster

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 6fl ob 2cl perc g pf str

Divertimento : op. 27, 1944 / Jan Koetsier

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 1121 2200 timp str

compositie

L'Élue : Prelude pour orchestre / Bram Kortekaas

Auteur(s):
Kortekaas, Bram (Componist)
Toelichting:
L'Élue (The Chosen One) is written as a companion piece to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). L'Élue is a prelude not just in the musical sense. Its story precedes the actions the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps.
Stravinsky’s ballet focusses on the collective actions of a pagan tribe. In L'Élue the attention is shifted to the individual within this tribe. The composition explores the feelings of a young woman, who is afraid of becoming the Chosen One for this year’s sacrifice.
Stravinsky’s concept of Day and Night for the first and second part of Le Sacre du Printemps (as described in The Rite of Spring: sketches 1911-1913, page xxi) are mirrored in L'Élue.
The composition starts with an impression of the night (La Nuit). At dawn, the first signs of Spring appear (À l'Aube du Printemps). This is noticed by the young woman, presented by the Alto Flute. The realization that the tribe’s yearly Spring sacrifice approaches fills her with dread. In a premonition, she sees herself as that year’s The Chosen One (La Prémonition de L’Élue). The premonition dissolves, after which Le Sacre du Printemps is performed attacca.