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Yannick Nézet-Séguin turns Rotterdam Doelen into a swirling sea of sound

In a letter to Franz Liszt in 1852, Wagner stressed that in his Der fliegende Holländer should be shown as realistically as possible, full of violent waves. One hundred and sixty years later, Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes that advice very much to heart in port city Rotterdam. Nothing about this Holländer ripples, from the first notes it storms, culminating in a third act at hurricane force, with a leading role for the Netherlands Opera choir.

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Vredenburg Friday in 'Red Box' for one more season

Toen Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in 2007 de deuren sloot voor een ambitieuze verbouwing werden de symfonische concerten verplaatst van het centrum van Utrecht naar de noodlocatie Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn aan de A2. De twee jaar daarvoor in het leven geroepen omroepserie ‘De Vrijdag van Vredenburg’ verkaste mee naar deze tijdelijke behuizing, die al snel werd omgedoopt tot ‘Rode Doos’. Tegen alle verwachtingen in wist programmeur Astrid in ’t Veld daar de prille concertserie uit te bouwen tot publie...

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Prokofiev fairytale opera on repeat

L'amour des trois oranges
In 2005 betoverden regisseur Laurent Pelly en dirigent Stéphane Denève het Nederlandse publiek met hun visie op L’amour des trois oranges van Sergei Prokofjev. Deze productie van De Nederlandse Opera voldeed met zijn inventieve decors, uiterst muzikale regie, oogverblindende kostuums en geweldige prestaties van solisten, Koor van DNO en het Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest aan de meest hooggespannen verwachtingen.
'Zelden zo'n geslaagde synthese van muziek, beeld en esp...

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Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music

What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms... 

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Sculpted Ovation for 'ingenious' conductor Iván Fischer

"Programmatic ingenuity goes hand in hand with Fischer's ebullient and finely crafted performances". So when someone says that about you, you have earned a prize. So that is what the jury of formerly the Classical Music Prize thought of Iván Fischer, the Hungarian-born conductor who was therefore awarded the 'Ovation' on Monday 17 October 2011. And so then the 'Ovation'... 

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Superbly performed opera by Rimsky Korsakoff provisional highlight of changeable opening weekend Gergiev Festival

"My commitment to the city (Rotterdam) and the orchestra knows no end," Valeri Gergyev spoke on the occasion of the Gergyev Festival taking place in Rotterdam this week. This is good news, as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the former principal conductor still get along well. And to be backed by this global top-five conductor is... 

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It's final: the format for arts subsidies until 2016 is with the chamber

We have another letter from the secretary of state for culture. Halbe Zijlstra has sent it to parliament, to make it official that from 2013 a very bleak wind is going to blow in arts land. That makes cuts of 200 million final, still excluding the probably 150 million in so-called friction costs that the ministry also has to get from somewhere (u... 

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Gergiev comes to Rotterdam with a top orchestra and top repertoire, but audiences are used to that from him

Russian conductor Valeri Gergjev was back in Rotterdam for a while, for one concert. He conducted his own orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), in de Doelen. The famous orchestra played repertoire that we in our country know inside out: Gustav Mahler's 1st symphony and Dmitri Shostakowich's 1st piano concerto. A now historic combination: because the Netherlands has become fused... 

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Rutteleaks 4 on orchestras: 'Mergers Brabants Orkest and Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Gelders Orkest and Orkest v.h. Oosten, Residentie Orkest and RphO'

Of course we are being horribly abused. By the coughing chain-smoker with his trench coat in that Hague car park. Is there a bigger plan behind it. Which again we know nothing about, but which will become clear on 23 May. So be it. Until then, we can do nothing but slavishly write down what the coughing oracle coughs at us. Well: We already knew that... 

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Superior played-in recordings are no guarantee of delivering a reference CD

The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra currently has an unprecedented luxury: it is releasing CDs on two labels at the same time. How is that possible? The orchestra signed under its own name with BIS Records, the label with which the eccentric owner Von Bahr releases one extraordinary recording after another, while chief conductor Yannick Néze-Séguin is old-fashionedly under contract as maestro with EMI.... 

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Yannick spurs his orchestra to a memorable and historic performance of Prokofiev's fifth symphony

Het Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest wordt door dirigenten verschillend gewaardeerd. Of je kunt er mee uit de voeten en dan is het feest, of het wordt nooit iets en dan blijft het bij een enkele dirigeerbeurt. Bovendien wordt de enorme reactiesnelheid van de musici gevreesd. Bij andere orkesten kunt je nog wel eens freewheelen – een orkest als het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest (KCO) speelt hoe dan ook toch wel door - maar bij het RPhO kan een klein gebaar al een enorme orkaan veroorzaken. Wat j...

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Liszt's music is too important to ignore

Fransz Litszt, born in 1811, explored every nook and cranny of the piano in his work, trying to incorporate every conceivable technique. As this contemporary of Carl Czerny, Niccolo Paganini and Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago this year, so there is a Liszt year. The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra bit the bullet of that on Friday 28 January,... 

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Conductor Ono does not stand with his boots in the blubber and so does not go home with a passing grade

Rotterdam - That every disadvantage 'hep' its advantage is often apparent with symphony orchestras. A chief conductor, for instance, is usually in charge of his own orchestra for no more than about 12 weeks a year. He divides the rest of his time among the other orchestras he is also already chief of. For instance, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is now chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic as well as... 

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Russian soul dissected: religion and vodka create moral dilemmas

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By Willem Jan Keizer

Rotterdam - Thanks to conductor Valeri Gergyev, we get more insight into the huge reservoir of Russian composers. Rodion Shchedrin for example. Last year a piano concerto of his was performed, Sunday night in de Doelen it was his opera for the concert stage 'The Enchanted Wanderer', after the book 'The Enchanted Wanderer' by Nikolai Leskov. The opera is dedicated to conductor Lorin Maazel, who also conducted the premiere in New York in 2002.

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RPhO's gift to the resurrected city falls short at opening Gergiev festival

Tim Hugh
By Willem Jan Keizer
Rotterdam – De vijftiende editie van het Gergjev Festival is vrijdagavond in bijzijn van Hare Majesteit de Koningin in concertgebouw de Doelen officieel van start gegaan met een concert van het Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest onder leiding van Valeri Gergjev. Hoewel het festival zich afspeelt op een kleine twintig locaties in de stad - niet alleen in de Doelen maar ook in de Laurenskerk, het conservatorium, museum Boijmans van Beuningen en tal van andere onverwac...

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