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Jolanda Spoel seamlessly forges hip-hop and classical together in Melomaniac. And that is quite difficult

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 October 202130 March 2022
1 min read
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'They come from two worlds, but work together towards something that is one. Jolanda Spoel has done that perfectly'. Katinka Reinders, head of education at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, is enthusiastic after one of the first play-in performances of Melomaniac at Maas Theatre & Dance. Just now, a room full of somewhat timid secondary school students turned into a churning group of lovers of...

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Rotterdam's Gergiev Festival delivers a brand new masterpiece

by one of our members
13 September 2015
4 min read
MUSIC

'Rachmaninov's melodic gift is impressive and makes the composer very popular'. This is how Valery Gergiev pithily sums up the quality of Rachmaninov's music. The Gergiev Festival that centred around this composer this weekend emphatically sticks to the popular works: the piano concertos and symphonies . Yet it omits many compositions that could have given these works more framework....

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Where did Rachmaninov's success come from?

by one of our members
9 September 201527 January 2019
5 min read
MUSIC

Actually, Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) was a bit of an oddity, an anachronism. He bit into the composition style of his great example Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who died in 1893. When contrasting Rachmaninov with some of his contemporaries (Dmitri Shostakowich, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Strawinsky and overseas Charles Ives, George Antheil and Edgard Varèse), it is only right to notice...

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Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music

by one of our members
16 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

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

by one of our members
13 September 201130 March 2022
4 min read
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"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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Rutteleaks 4 on orchestras: 'Mergers Brabants Orkest and Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Gelders Orkest and Orkest v.h. Oosten, Residentie Orkest and RphO'

by one of our members
7 March 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

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

by one of our members
24 February 201130 March 2022
5 min read
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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

by one of our members
12 February 201129 March 2022
4 min read
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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

by one of our members
30 January 201129 March 2022
4 min read
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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

by one of our members
14 November 20108 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

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

by one of our members
5 September 201029 March 2022
5 min read
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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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The only governing party with a coherent vision of culture is the PVV, reports the Green Left at the Paradiso Debate.

by one of our members
29 August 201029 March 2022
3 min read
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U hoort achtereenvolgens Axel Rüger, directeur van het Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, die reageert op de door VVD-er Mark Harbers geponeerde stelling dat de kunstwereld niet ondernemend genoeg is. Daarop volgt een reactie van oud cultuurwoordvoerster van het CDA Nicolien van Vroonhoven (door presentator Twan Huys consequent Nicolien van Vroemhoven genoemd) en oud NNT-acteur Boris van der Ham, nu cultuurwoordvoerder van D66. Daarna volgt een gloedvol betoog van M...

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