Joep Franssens - Harmony of the Spheres

Joep Franssens (1955) Harmony of the spheres : cycle in five movements for mixed choir a cappella, with mixed choir and strings in part three (2001) Movement I - 00:00 Movement II - 10:10 Movement III a - 18:15 Movement III b - 33:45 Movement IV - 42:36 Movement V - 49:20 Netherlands Chamber Choir Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste Dedicated to Tõnu Kaljuste and the Nederlands Kamerkoor Program note: Parts can be performed separately. Harmony of the Spheres is also written for other instrumentations. Sheet Music available through music publisher Deuss Music: Joep Franssens is a Dutch composer. He studied piano in Groningen, and composition in the Hague and Rotterdam with Louis Andriessen and Klaas de Vries respectively. He is representative of the post-serial generation of Dutch composers who use tonal means and an accessible idiom without neo-Romantic features, even if the pathos-laden, highly e