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#HF11 Thomas Adès sails his own ship and steers across familiar waters with new compositions

De ark als de aarde, als een ruimteschip dat ons door de chaos van het heelal naar een veilige haven voert. De Poolster als ogenschijnlijk magnetisch middelpunt van het heelal waaromheen alle sterren draaien. Nee, dit is geen zweverig new age geleuter, het zijn de uitgangspunten voor Tevot and Polaris, twee grote orkestwerken van Thomas Adès, die onder leiding van de componist zelf hun Nederlandse première beleefden.

#HF11 Playing with Nietzsche's moustache in opera fantasy by Wolfgang Rihm

An opera based on texts by Nietzsche, and then start with loud laughter and main character N trying to catch two water nymphs. Wait a minute, that's Wagner! Well, at Wagner's Rheingold involves three Rhine daughters, but the similarity is too great to be coincidental. And neither is this one, but in the first minutes of Wolfgang Rihm's Dionysos is much more going on. Here is a composer at work who not only plays with text and music, but also with centuries of cultural history and knows how to add jokes to it. It is to get intoxicated.

#HF11 Weather barbed, lovely and humorous notes at mini-festival Xenakis 1234

With the battle between Titans and gods on Mount Olympus, Xenakis opens 1234, a mini-festival in the great Holland Festival. In four concerts, spread over two days, it features Iannis Xenakis central. There is also an extensive exhibition dedicated to the Greek composer, who was a mathematician and architect by birth.

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