Stravinsky: Les noces

Stravinsky: Les noces

Completed by Theo Verbey | 2007

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Duration:
24'

Instrumentation:
Solo Voice(s) soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass Chorus SATB 2perc/2cim.hmn.pianola

Commissioned by:
Peppie Wiersma with financial support from the Société Gavigniès

First performance:
15 August 2009 at the Hermitage in Amsterdam as the opening concert of the Grachtenfestival, performed by Cappella Amsterdam:
Françoise Rivalland: Cimbalom
Michiel Weidner: Cimbalom
Dirk Luijmes: Harmonium
Peppie Wiersma: Percussion
Rozemarie Heggen: Percussion

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Press Quotes

“Of all his ballets, Stravinsky’s Les Noces – an evocation of Russian peasant wedding rituals – was the one he laboured over longest as he changed his mind several times about its instrumentation.[…]

All that said, the pianola’s mechanistic and inexorable tempo drives much of the performance, effectively depersonalising the ritual while sharpening the rhythmic profile of much of the music. Yet the Ensemble Aedes and its various soloists, even while working with the pianola’s relentless drive, admirably characterise their singing, one moment full of rough enthusiasm or raw emotion, the next beguilingly lyrical.

Hearing Stravinsky’s long-desired but originally unfulfilled version of Les Noces – so compellingly realised between Verbey and these fine musicians – is worth the price of entry alone.” – Daniel Jaffe, BBC Music Magazine

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Strauss: Zwei letzte Lieder

Strauss: Zwei letzte Lieder

Arranged by Theo Verbey | 2018

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Duration:
14'

Instrumentation:
Solo: CT; 2(2picc).1.eh.2.bclar.2 - 2.1.1.0 - timp, cel – str [6.6.4div.4div.4]

Commissioned by:
The Royal Concertgebouworkest

World premiere:
4 April 2019, David Robertson, conducting

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Rachmaninov: Spring Waters Op. 14 no. 11

Rachmaninov: Spring Waters Op. 14 no. 11

Inst. Theo Verbey | 2017

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Duration:
3'

Instrumentation:
1.picc.2.eh.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp, perc[snaredr.trg.cymb.bassdr.glsp], hp - str - soprano-solo

Commissioned by:
The Royal Concertgebouworkest

First performance:
conducted by Mariss Jansons, with Eva-Marie Westbroek as soprano soloist

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Mussorgsky: Without Sun

Mussorgsky: Without Sun

Inst. Theo Verbey | 1989

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Duration:
15'

Instrumentation:
voice 2.0.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 - str (6.6.4.4.2)

Based on texts by:
A.A. Golenishchev-Kutusov

Dedicated to:
Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Premiere:
21 March 1992, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Birgit Remmert, Mezzo Soprano, Amsterdam Sinfonietta conducted by Lev Markiz

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Mussorgsky: The Nursery

Mussorgsky: The Nursery

Inst. Theo Verbey | 1994

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Duration:
14'

Instrumentation:
voice, 2.2.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 - perc, hp, str (6.6.4.4.2)

Commissioned by:
Amsterdam Sinfonietta with financial support from the Nestlé Composition Fund

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Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Inst. Theo Verbey | 1994

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Duration:
21'

Instrumentation:
voice 2perc, pf str (6.6.4.4.2)

Commissioned by:
Amsterdam Sinfonietta – with financial support from the Nestlé Composition Fund

Premiere:
19 Feb. 1996, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam – Nikita Storozjev, bass, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Marikz, conductor

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Gesualdo: Sacrae Cationes – 8 songs

Gesualdo: Sacrae Cationes – 8 songs

Completed by Theo Verbey | 2005

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Duration:
20'

Instrumentation:
cantus, sextus, altus, quintus, tenor bassus

Commissioned by:
Cappella Gabrielli

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Whitman

Whitman

1992
For soprano and orchestra, on poems by Walt Whitman (1819-92)

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Duration:
7'

Instrumentation:
sopr 4343 4331 timp 5perc 2hp pf str(16.14.12.10.8)

Based on texts by:
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

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Two Poems of Bloem: Mixed Choir

Two Poems of Bloem

Twee Gedichten van Bloem | 2012
Based on poems by Dutch poet and essayist J.C. Bloem (1887-1966)

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Duration:
11'

Instrumentation:
4part mixed choir SATB

Based on texts by:
J.C. Bloem

Written at the request of:
The Dutch Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei

First performance:
During the national Dutch ceremony to commemorate the war dead on 4 May, 2007 with Queen Beatrix in attendance

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Two Poems of Bloem: 4-part Female Choir

Two Poems of Bloem

Twee Gedichten van Bloem | 2007
Based on poems by Dutch poet and essayist J.C. Bloem (1887-1966)

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Duration:
11'

Instrumentation:
4part female choir

Based on texts by:
J.C. Bloem

Written at the request of:
The Dutch Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei

First performance:
During the national Dutch ceremony to commemorate the war dead on 4 May, 2007 with Queen Beatrix in attendance

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