At the first opportunity, he abandons her. He leads a debauched life, marries another and ends up in the madhouse. Yet Anne Truelove continues to love Tom Rakewell, the protagonist in The Rake's Progress. The National Opera will present its fourth production of Stravinsky's opera from 1 February, in collaboration with Aix-en-Provence. There, last July, the...
On Wednesday 24 January, the Nederlands Kamerkoor presents an adventurous concert at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ to kick off a short tour. On the lecterns are rarely heard music by Lili Boulanger and Ton de Leeuw. The highlight is Igor Stravinsky's famous Psalm Symphony in a version for choir and piano four hands by Dmitri Shostakovich. Ralph van Raat and Bobby Mitchell sign...
Erik Voermans (1958) is one of those people who writes down what you think yourself, but would never air publicly. The music editor of Het Parool likes to pose as your unsuspecting neighbour's boy, watching the music world with amazement. Take the phenomenon of opera: 'That's when someone with a knife in his taas walks around for half an hour singing that he's going to die.' If he...
De tekst is in eerste instantie uitgesproken als column in opdracht van het Nederlands Kamerkoor (april 2015- première in Theater De Harmonie Leeuwarden). Trip naar Scandinavië is daar een variant op in drie delen. Nu mét animatie. https://youtu.be/WAST2GoSY6k Kijk ook naar aflevering 1. … Je kunt nu inloggen om verder te lezen! Welkom in het archief van Cultuurpers! Als lid heb…
Cimbalom en harmonium zijn niet meteen de eerste instrumenten waaraan je denkt bij klassieke muziek. Toch plaatst het immer avontuurlijke collectief Ludwig juist deze buitenbeentjes centraal tijdens twee concerten, op zaterdag 26 september in het AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert in Utrecht en op zondag 27-9 in het Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. https://youtu.be/N63gikqYyWI In 1915 bezocht Igor Stravinsky samen met een vriend…
American-Italian voice artist Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) has gone down in history as 'the wife of Luciano Berio', the Italian composer with whom she realised such high-profile pieces as Circles, Sequenza III, Recital I for Cathy and Thema, Omaggio a Joyce. Yet they were married for only 14 years, from 1950 to 1964. Moreover, it is widely known that she had a large compositional share
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam has had a name to live up to since its establishment in 1829. In earlier times, it was invariably on hand when the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Willem Mengelberg performed large-scale choral works. Although the choir still consists of amateurs and its ties with the illustrious orchestra have weakened, it still puts (very) demanding pieces on its desks. For instance, the...
Three hundred years ago, the Treaty of Utrecht was signed, bringing an end to both the War of Spanish Succession, and the War of Queen Anne. Remarkably, this peace treaty was not negotiated on the battlefield, but at the negotiating table. It took a year and a half for the many parties to come to an agreement, and the treaty counts as the beginning of...
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