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CHAMBER

Enivrez-Vous! (2022)

for reed quintet

  • 18 min
  • Donemus Publishing
  • November, 2022

ENIVREZ-VOUS! (Get drunk!) leans its title from the poem with the same name by Charles Baudelaire. In four movements this piece describes different forms of being drunk, both in metaphorical as in literal sense.

  1. Proverbs: Drunk by wisdom: A strict and obsessive melody that develops into something more nuanced and colorful, until it dozes off…
  2. Ecclasiastes: Drunk by conviction: An obsessive hammering movement altered by distracting wave forms and a drunk organist who fails to perform a hymn.
  3. Lamentations: Drunk by grief: A lumping melody, sobbing forwards until it bursts…
  4. Canticles: Drunk by love: A waltz not knowing what it should do with itself but spinning into eternity.

First performance

Ensemble Calefax Reed Quintet
Oboe Oliver Boekhoorn
Alto Saxophone Raaf Hekkema
Bassoon Alban Wesly
Bass Clarinet Jelte Althuis
Clarinet Bart de Kater

General information

Instrumentation Reed quintet (Ob/CA.Clar.Asx/Ssx.Bsn.Bcl.)
Commissioned by Calefax Reed Quintet

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