Berlayar Ke Mata Hari V ‘New Voices’

  • Solar piece for gamelan orchestra, western percussion septet, metal percussion, 19 winds, three keyboards, solo quinton, 19 voices on text by Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil”

  • Duration: 25' 27"
  • In 1 movement
  • Composed in 1998
  • First performance: 24.05.98 LASALLE Gamelan Ensemble, LASALLE-SIA School of Music, Singapore Wind Symphony and Philharmonic Chorus conducted by R Casteels Cultural Hall LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore)
  • Parts: To rent the parts, please email <rc@robertcasteels.com>
  • Downloadable scores for inspection:
Sound Extracts:
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Berlayar 5
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Review
“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, France

 

Review

“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

Composer, conductor in Singapore with specialty in fusion music

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