Berlayar Ke Mata Hari V ‘New Voices’
Gamelan orchestra, western percussion septet, metal percussion, 19 winds, three keyboards, solo quinton, 19 voices
Handwritten sketches and drafts
to be found in the loose bundle of manuscripts and in the black cover logbook #1
Completion of the composition
1-IV-1998
Analysis
see Berlayar Ke Mata Hari V (1998) under Articles
Quotes
“Dans nos sociétés mondialisées et standardisées, la passion et la créativité sont des biens précieux. J'aime beaucoup le gamelan en particulier, un peu ensorcelant, complètement hors du temps, exotique et planant. Les compositions de Casteels sont originales avec une démarche intellectuelle et oecuménique très intéressante”.
Nadine Vildé, Paris
“The music conjures up thoughts of screening pictures behind tunes – wheat blowing in the wind, streams gently gliding their way along sunlit meadows, the turquoise sea tossing itself towards the horizon”.
Rosalie Martin, Melbourne
Duration:
25' 27"
Composed In:
1998
Dedicated to:
Parts:
For score, parts and CD Berlayar (track 2), please email <rc@robertcasteels.com>
First performance:
24.05.98 Cultural Hall LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
First performed by:
LASALLE Gamelan Ensemble, LASALLE-SIA School of Music, Singapore Wind Symphony and Philharmonic Chorus conducted by R Casteels
Commissioned by:
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