Works
performer
: Cornelis, Evert
instrumentation: contralto and piano // mezzo-soprano and piano ♦ After Diepenbrock had completed the large-scale symphonic poem Im grossen Schweigen (In the Great Silence, RC 67) at the beginning of February 1906, he felt like taking on something entirely different…
instrumentation: male choir and organ ♦ Alphons Diepenbrock composed the Hymnus de Spiritu Sancto at the request of chaplain, hymnologist and church musician Cornelis van Erven Dorens. He was looking for a Veni Creator Spiritus he could reh…
instrumentation: mezzo soprano and piano ♦ At a recital in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on 12 February 1912 the Hungarian alto/mezzo-soprano Ilona Durigo sang three songs by Diepenbrock: besides Clair de lune (Moonlight, RC 43) and Mandoline (M…
instrumentation: mezzo-soprano (or baritone) and piano ♦ Puisque l’aube grandit (Since Dawn Awoke) is the fourth song Diepenbrock wrote on a text by Paul Verlaine. The poem is from the collection La bonne chanson (The Good Song) that had been given to Diepe…
instrumentation: mezzo soprano and piano ♦ The first sketch of Diepenbrock’s setting of Verlaine’s Mandoline (Mandolin) dates from 7 June 1909. On p. 16 of sketchbook C-10 the contours of the opening melody of the voice, in the key of D major,…
instrumentation: violin and orchestra ♦ In March 1910 Diepenbrock arranged the famous Chaconne in g minor for violin and continuo by Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663-1745) for the unusual combination of solo violin and an orchestra of two flutes…
