‘Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man’.  This is the beginning of the first stasimon from the Ancient Greek Tragedy ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles (5th century B.C.).  A famous and beautiful sentence which makes one reflect.  What exactly separates human beings from all other life on our planet; How has man reached the high standard of life as we know it today?  I searched for an answer trough seven different excerpts from world literature, each of them dealing with another aspect of mankind.  I provided these texts with a musical impression of the underlying content.  The result is a composition in seven parts, starting and ending with a praeludium and postludium, and in between five larger movements.  ‘Secreta’ is meant to be a philosophical as well as a musical search for the secrets behind human society.

Secreta (excerpt 2)

‘Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man’.  This is the beginning of the first stasimon from the Ancient Greek Tragedy ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles (5th century B.C.).  A famous and beautiful sentence which makes one reflect.  What exactly separates human beings from all other life on our planet; How has man reached the high standard of life as we know it today?  I searched for an answer trough seven different excerpts from world literature, each of them dealing with another aspect of mankind.  I provided these texts with a musical impression of the underlying content.  The result is a composition in seven parts, starting and ending with a praeludium and postludium, and in between five larger movements.  ‘Secreta’ is meant to be a philosophical as well as a musical search for the secrets behind human society. Live performance by Royal Symphonic Wind Band Vooruit (cond. Geert Verschaeve)

Secreta (excerpt 1)

Erik Desimpelaere is a Belgian composer, pianist and conductor.

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