{"id":787,"date":"2026-06-11T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/?page_id=787"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:09:04","slug":"uit-diepten-strijkkwartet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/composities\/uit-diepten-strijkkwartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Uit Diepten (From Depths, String Quartet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Uit Diepten (From Depths)<\/strong> is a String Quartet based on the melody of Psalm 130 from the Genevan Psalter. Although the words don\u2019t sound, the meaning of this Psalm, which is a prayer from depths, is heard in the music. The depths represent the feeling that God doesn\u2019t listen. However, the writer of the Psalm asks God to hear him, because he knows that God is good and forgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Instrumentation<\/strong><\/td><td>Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/td><td>6 minutes<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Year of composition<\/strong><\/td><td>2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Premiere<\/strong><\/td><td>21 March 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recording<\/strong> \u2013 21 March 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Uit Diepten (Strijkkwartet) - Harmen van den Berg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ye7d0iUGpAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I first wrote this piece for Mezzo-Soprano, Bass, Organ and String Quartet. When I critically looked back on this, I discovered that the music didn't need the text itself to express the text. That's why I rewrote the piece to a String Quartet. With this, I don't mean to say that I discard the version with voice and organ, they're both valuable to me. You can find the earlier version <a href=\"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/composities\/uit-diepten\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"515\">here<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uit Diepten is een Strijkkwartet op basis van de melodie van Psalm 130 uit het Geneefs Psalter. Hoewel de woorden niet klinken is de betekenis van deze Psalm, een gebed uit diepten, te horen in de muziek. De diepten stellen het gevoel dat God niet luistert voor. Toch vraagt de schrijver van de Psalm God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":534,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions\/879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenvandenberg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}