YEAR OF COMPOSITION

2014

INSTRUMENTATION

Children’s choir, youth choir, community choir, concert choir, saxophone quartet, percussion (snare drum, djembe, vibraphone), narrator

DURATION

1h 45'

commissioned by

Altra Voce & Koor & Stem

LYRICS

• Lyrics by

  Annelies Verbeke (b. 1976), based on the novella of the same name

Language

Dutch, French, English and German

PREMIÈRE

• Date

  20 December 2014

• Place

  Schouwburg Kortrijk (Belgium)

• Choirs

  Altra Voce (Kortrijk), Kalliope (Ghent), Pro Ecclesia (Kortrijk), Maria Bernardakoor (Zwevegem), De Arnootjes (Anzegem), Kallikids (Ghent), Japanese School of Brussels, Ensemble Vocapella (Germany), Choeur Sorbonne Universités (France), Landmark Show Choir (England), Maven Sings (The Netherlands)

• Instrumentals

  [sic]

• Narrator

  Kurt Defrancq

• Conductor

  Sabine Haenebalcke

Award

• Unfinished Landscape was one of the nominees for the Sabam Award 2015.
• On 22 November 2015, Unfinished Landscape came in 13th in radio station Klara’s Top 100

SCORE

• Publication

  Publication: 10 ‘What if’ and 28 ‘Berceuse’ are available via Koorklank; other movements available upon request

• Movement Titles

  Timing & Instrumentation

LINKS

• Interview with Annelies Verbeke and Maarten Van Ingelgem in Stemband #21
• More info: www.onvoltooid-landschap.be

Audio

• CD Recording

  Hampstead Heath, 18 March 2017, Keyhof Residence, Huldenberg, by the Brussels Chamber Choir and Helen Cassano (conductor), Etcetera Records KTC 1601 ‘Made in Belgium’

• iTunes

  Hampstead Heath

• Spotify

  Hampstead Heath

• Amazon

  Hampstead Heath

• CD Recording

  Hampstead Heath, 27-30 August 2019, Jesuit Church, Heverlee (Belgium), by the Flemish Radio Choir and Bart Van Reyn (conductor), Evil Penguin EPRC 0033 'Ton Sur Ton'

• SoundCloud

• YouTube

  
  

  Hampstead Heath, one man choir (Noah Thys)

  Hampstead Heath by the Flemish Radio Choir and Bart Van Reyn (conductor)

  Le Bébé by Vocaal Ensemble Freya and Gert-Jan Verbueken (conductor)

  Promotion clip

  Bomen, Wat als... & Nacht by Kalliope and Sabine Haenebalcke (conductor)

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