Al is Alles Stil (2022)

A setting of Mijn hart zingt door by Vrouwkje Tuinman

SATB

Duration:
5′

First performance:
09 October 2022
Capella Vocale, Monique Schendelaar, Petruskerk, Leiden, Netherlands

UK premiere:
23 November 2024
University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, Sam Paul, St Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, UK


Score


Programme note

Al is Alles Stil was written for the Dutch choir Capella Vocale for their 25th anniversary concert in October 2022. On the one hand it is a work of celebration and festivity, however, as the world emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is also tinged with sadness and nostalgia at all that was lost and could have been. The work sets a direct and emotive poem by Vrouwkje Tuinman, Mijn hart zingt door (‘My heart sings on’) which praises the act of singing and the relationships formed in doing so. I took the ‘action’ of the poem as an impulse to write the piece, the lines ‘I sing until you and I come closer’ and ‘My song finds you’ being taken in an almost literal fashion in my work with the female voices gradually moving closer to the males before an impassioned finale chorale on the words ‘My heart sings on.’

PAC

Tobias Patrick Wolf

Tobias is an award-winning German conductor and composer based in North East Scotland. He is Music Director of the renowned King’s Studio Orchestra (Scotland), the Braeside Singers (Aberdeen) and Principal Guest Conductor of the German Winds. Tobias is PhD researcher at the University of Aberdeen, exploring hybrid composition and performance practice. Sought after as guest conductor for ensembles around the globe, he brings new music to life — for audiences in the concert hall, on radio and television, and across multi-platform online streaming services.

https://www.tpwolf.com
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