YEAR OF COMPOSITION

2023

INSTRUMENTATION

Mixed choir with two conductors

Duration

8’

arrangement of

De vier weverkens (Flemish traditional)

cOMMISSIONED BY

Koor&Stem, the Flemish organisation for vocal music

DEDICATION

To the Belgian National Youth Choir ‘BEvocaL’ and its conductors Benoît Giaux en Jori Klomp

LYRICS

Folk song lyrics

Language

Dutch

PREMIÈRE

• Date

  5 July 2023

• Place

  Musica Mundi, Waterloo (Belgium)

• Choir

  BEvocaL

• Conductors

  Benoît Giaux and Jori Klomp

audio

CD-recording

4 July 2023, Musica Mundi, Waterloo (Belgium), by BEvocaL, Benoît Giaux and Jori Klomp (conductors), Cypres Records CYP 2627 ‘By the Rivers of Belgium’

Background © Verdure with two pheasants