Wenneke Savenije studied Dutch and viola. She writes reviews and interviews for NRC Handelsblad (1985-2012) and numerous music magazines, and travel reports and other stories for magazines. She published 'Over Mozart Gesproken', a biography on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and a book on Jascha Heifetz. Together with Elger Niels, she is editor-in-chief of music magazine De Nieuwe Muze. With pianist Marietta Petkova, she published Der Dichter spricht. In 2008, she translated From East to West, the autobiography of Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang, and in 2011 Strijdlied van de Tijgermoeder by Amy Chua. With pianist Marietta Petkova, she published Der Dichter spricht. In 2008, she translated From East to West, the autobiography of Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang.
This video by Thomas Oliemans is really fun to watch, it lasts 1 hour and 14 min. That's how nice streaming can be. So much nicer when you are there!
No love without power relations. And certainly not when that love takes place in a royal bedroom. That bedchamber is now the setting for a tragic love triangle between a king, his lover and his wife in Lessons in Love and Violence, the third opera by English composer Georges Benjamin and playwright Martin Crimp. The Elizabethan drama Edward II...
'It took me 18 years to make a new recording,' Croatian pianist Ivo Pogorelich (1958) says with a modest smile. 'Just as much time as it takes a baby to come of age.' It is Wednesday, November 2. A special moment, because on that day Pogorelich's CD-less new recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas No 22 and No 24 will go on...
It no longer buzzes, hums, sings, saws and buzzes in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. The cello caravan has left. The sixth edition of the Cello Biennale Amsterdam is over, leaving the thousands of cello and music fans with a feeling of emptiness. Nowhere else does such an amazing festival of cello take place in ten days, where the audience feels like...
Every morning Maarten Mostert, spiritual father and artistic director of the Cello Biennale Amsterdam, is squeezing oranges at half past seven in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. The early birds among cello lovers then flock to the place to be for a free croissant with orange juice, followed by a top-notch performance of one of Bach's six Cello Suites in the Bach...
The Cello Biennale Amsterdam, the world's largest cello festival taking place from 20 to 29 October in Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, has begun and it is already taking a battering. For ten days, 27 international cello soloists, 6 orchestras, 11 ensembles, 1 choir and many musicians from 26 countries will give over 800 performances. From morning...
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