In februari 2017 combineerde Het Collectief de radicale muziek van Galina Oestvolskaja met de hemelse gezangen van Hildegard von Bingen. Minder vreemd dan het lijkt, want beiden waren diep gelovig en componeerden vanuit innerlijke noodzaak. Donderdag 26 oktober plaatst het Spectra Ensemble Oestvolskaja naast Karel Goeyvaerts in Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. Oestvolskaja is hier te lande inmiddels genoegzaam bekend, maar wie was…
Dutch composer Klaas de Vries (Terneuzen 1944) pairs Stravinskyian clarity with southern sensuality. He nurtures a love for poets like Pablo Neruda and Fernando Pessoa, and his work excels in recognisable melodies and rhythms. 'However innovative, to be communicative, music must always contain a traditional element,' he said. On 28 and 30 November, Asko|Schönberg will play...
Het zal je maar gebeuren. Op je 70e eren ze je met een cd-box, vijf jaar later krijg je een dubbel zo omvangrijke compilatie aangeboden. Het overkwam de Nederlandse hoboïst Han de Vries (Den Haag, 1941), die afgelopen augustus zijn 75e verjaardag vierde. In 2011 verzamelde zijn oud-student Peter Bree de radio-opnames op negen cd’s, dit keer vulde hij een…
On Friday 10 February in Utrecht, the Nederlands Kamerkoor will kick off its concert series Sacred and Profane, based on Benjamin Britten's choral work of the same name. The programme also includes his popular cycle Hymn to St Cecilia, which he composed during World War II. The score was confiscated by the US Customs Service in 1942 because it allegedly contained codes that were dangerous to the state. The American fear of a...
De Amerikaans-Nederlandse violist Joseph Puglia is een hartstochtelijk pleitbezorger van eigentijdse muziek. Vorig jaar gooide hij hoge ogen met zijn vertolking van het Vioolconcert van Anders Hillborg, samen met de jonge musici van het NJO Symfonieorkest. Hij is eerste violist van Asko|Schönberg, waarmee hij eerder dit jaar de wereldpremière presenteerde van het speciaal voor hem gecomponeerde vioolconcert Roads to Everywhere van Joey Roukens.
Bassoonist Pascal Gallois gets laughs when he tries in vain to insert the flowers he has just received into the tube of his instrument. Also in the now classic Dialogue de l'ombre double by Pierre Boulez, he manages to make the audience chuckle on Sunday 19 June, when he produces a kind of elephant-like trumpet with much misfiring. His performance is part of the action ''Save the bassoon', which will conclude on Sunday 25 June with a concert at the Holland Festival Proms at the Concertgebouw. For this hundreds of (amateur) bassoonists ON. Action successful, in other words.
For Theatre of the World, his fifth full-length opera, Louis Andriessen (1939) drew inspiration from the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). He was the last Renaissance man, someone who could do everything and knew everything. Kircher wrote books full of the most diverse subjects, from the meaning of hieroglyphics to vulcanology and musical instruments. He even designed a cat piano, based on the idea that each cat screams at a different pitch when you tap its tail. After his death, Kircher fell into disrepute as a charlatan.
However, unusable for science, he forms gefundenes Fressen for a composer like Andriessen, who likes to explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. His opera Writing to Vermeer (1999) is based on fictional letters to the Delft painter; Rosa, a Horse Drama (1994) is about the murder of a composer, allegedly part of a conspiracy against music.
Hij zou op 26 maart 91 zijn geworden, maar overleed dinsdagnacht 5 januari in zijn woonplaats Baden-Baden. Pierre Boulez was de laatste nog levende componist van de groep die na WOII de richting van de muziek een nieuwe wending gaf. Zijn collega hemelbestormers gingen hem voor: Karlheinz Stockhausen stierf in 2007, Luciano Berio in 2003, Karel Goeyvaerts in 1993 en…
They are each other's opposites: Michiel Borstlap exudes luxury and relaxation, Micha Hamel a tense frown. But the two not inconsiderable gentlemen have both recently joined the Academy of Arts. They played new work last weekend and I spoke to them afterwards. Actually, I was programming Michiel Borstlap's concert for a theatre in Driebergen. In an expensive Jaguar, we drove to a restaurant for coffee...
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
For another 15 years, the Delft Chamber Music Festival, so named to reflect its international character, has encompassed 15 years. Violinist Isabelle van Keulen handled the chamber music festival's programming for the first ten years, Lisa Ferschtmann - also a violinist - took over from her five years ago. But even this already successful festival fears the upcoming budget cuts. A pity, because what...
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