Wereldpremière van de jonge componist Thomas van Dun geschreven in opdracht van Asko|Schönberg, meesterpianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in het Pianoconcert van György Ligeti en Unsuk Chin vindt haar inspiratie op straat. In 2008 en 2009 bezocht de Koreaanse componiste Unsuk Chin Hongkong en Guangzhou. De sfeer van de oude woonwijken met hun smalle, kronkelende steegjes, marktplaatsen en voedselverkopers deed haar denken…
This weekend, there was some fuss on Twitter. Something about a Nazi comparison that didn't quite work out. Now there is quite often a fuss on Twitter because of a Nazi comparison that doesn't quite work out, but this time it concerned one of our cultural figureheads. Kees Vlaardingerbroek, artistic director of the NTR Saturday matinee and former head of programming at the Rotterdam...
Het Holland Festival van 2019 was het beste in decennia. In ieder geval in de 25 jaar die ik er bewust van mee heb gekregen kan ik mij geen nationaal festival herinneren dat zoveel impact koppelde aan zoveel prestige. Of bezoekerstargets al of niet gehaald zijn, zal me daarbij een zorg zijn. Het is, zoals Volkskrant-collega Hein Janssen ooit opmerkte,…
That you cannot shamelessly treat a black man as a rutting primal beast and a faceless object for your unlimited lust fantasy as a white woman? Seems logical to me, but for Angélica Liddell, world-renowned performance artist, it is typical of the new puritanism that threatens free art. She now brings The Scarlet Letter to the Netherlands, a theatrical performance that is rather...
Sounding Alchemy, is the name of the chunky volume recently published by music publicist Maarten Brandt (1953). It has 715 pages, including illustrations and an extensive index. In 98 articles, Brandt unfolds his views on music and music programming. He dedicated the beautifully designed book to Marius Flothuis, whom he admired and who was programmer of the Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. His heirs received a first copy during...
When you go to a concert, you think about the music, the ensemble, the soloist and/or the conductor. Maybe you look up something about the composer but you never think about the programmer who made the concert possible. Astrid in 't Veld is someone who thinks about the range of concerts on offer years in advance in order to help you with...
Baroque specialist and conductor Andrea Marcon, together with his La Cetra Barockorchester, manages to weave a fine lace work in Vivaldi's opera seria Catone in Utica (1678 - 1741), on which, among others, German soprano Anett Fritsch, Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg and striking Italian mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti shine like precious jewels. The international cast of Catone in Utica...
Zaterdag 13 december presenteert de NTR Zaterdagmatinee de wereldpremière van Unscrolled voor piano en orkest van de Chinees-Amerikaanse componist Huang Ruo (Hainan, 1976), met de pianist Emanuele Arciuli en het Residentie Orkest onder leiding van Emilio Pomàrico. Hiermee start zijn drie maanden durende verblijf als composer in residence van het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw. Ruo is de eerste die deze eer te…
This Saturday, 14 February 2015, Reinbert de Leeuw will conduct the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Polish composer Henryk Górecki's (1933-2010) Fourth Symphony at the NTR Saturday matinee. Górecki established his name overnight in 1992, when the CD of his Third Symphony shot to the top of the classical charts like a flare. The recording of this Symphony...
Reinbert de Leeuw turned seventy-five last September, but already in May the VPRO honoured him with three full-length broadcasts on Radio 4. Together with Aad van Nieuwkerk, I made a selection from his finest recordings of Kagel, Ustvolskaya and Louis Andriessen, among others, about which I also let him speak. This was followed in September by a real Reinbert festival and his own magazine. The magazine not only highlighted him...
On 8 September next, pianist, composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw hopes to turn 75 and this will be celebrated with a range of events. These include a three-day festival dedicated to him in The Hague and Amsterdam at the end of September, and next season he will be
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