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Music publicist Maarten Brandt: 'For one note from Mahler's Ninth, I would give the gift of Shostakovich's entire oeuvre'

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... 

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Sofia Gubaidoelina: 'Only in the West could I set myself large-scale goals and realise them'

Sofia Gubaidoelina has become a true audience favourite in our country. She is also a welcome guest in broadcasting series. The AVROTROS Friday Concert, for instance, brought the Dutch premieres of Glorious Percussion (2011) and O Komm, Heiliger Geist (2016). Friday 23 March will see the first Dutch performance of her Triple Concerto for bayan, violin and cello. The piece is dedicated to... 

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Symphony of Psalms Igor Stravinsky: away with romantic sentiment

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... 

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Cello Biennale full of highlights: 'Cellists are just nice people'

It no longer hums, buzzes, sings, saws and buzzes in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ. The cello caravan has left. The sixth edition of the Cello Biennale Amsterdam is over, leaving the thousands of cello and music fans with a feeling of emptiness. Nowhere else does such an amazing festival of cello take place in ten days, where the audience feels like... 

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Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016): Fins ikoon van de eigentijdse muziek

Afgelopen woensdagnacht, 27 juli overleed Einojuhani Rautavaara in zijn huis in Helsinki, ten gevolge van complicaties bij een operatie. Hij werd 87 jaar oud en gold algemeen als de ongekroonde troonopvolger van Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), die rond 1930 zijn laatste noten schreef.

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Conductor Han-Na Chang: 'Music never offers just one answer'

'She is the embodiment of the incredible lightness of existence, agile, alert and precise on the beat.' So says one critic about Korean-American conductor Han-Na Chang (Suwon, 1982), who led just about every major orchestra after her debut in 2007. In 2014, she scored highly at the renowned BBC Proms with her fresh interpretation of the Fifth Symphony.... 

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Violinist Daniel Rowland: 'One spontaneous action can change the world'

The healing power of music, some firmly believe in it - in 2013, it was even the premise of the City of London Festival. Believing that music can connect people and have a healing effect on conflictual societies, festival director Ian Ritchie asked the Brodsky Quartet to commission a composition around this theme. Thus was born the by... 

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De muziek van Arvo Pärt: niet altijd een warm bad

Welke titels schieten je te binnen bij de naam Arvo Pärt? Sonatine opus 1; Symfonie nr. 1; Perpetuum mobile, of Fratres; Für Alina; Spiegel im Spiegel? Ik gok op de tweede reeks, want met dit soort stukken veroverde Pärt eind twintigste eeuw de wereld. Het publiek stroomde in drommen toe om zich onder te dompelen in zijn welluidende klankwereld, maar… 

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A vital and pitiful procession: William Kentridge at EYE

With its latest retrospective If We Ever Get To Heaven, EYE again convincingly and confidently presents itself as a museum that looks beyond film history. Previous exhibitions such as Expanded Cinema, which showcased visual artists working at the intersection of film and art, already demonstrated this. Now William Kentridge has been given the honour of... 

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Top talent in final Princess Christina Competition

On Sunday afternoon 26 April, I was a member of the press jury at the final of the Prinses Christina Competition in Lucent Danstheater in The Hague. Definitely not a punishment, as all six finalists performed at top level, no matter how young and inexperienced they were. Time and again, the organisation proves that all the gloom about the future of classical music is nonsense: this year too, there were... 

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Composer Henryk Górecki: art or kitsch?

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... 

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Festival 'Alba Rosa Viva' puts forgotten composer centre stage

This Sunday, September 28, the one-day festival Alba Rosa Viva will take place in Utrecht, in honour of the 125th birth anniversary of Alba Rosa Viëtor. Alba Rosa who?!!! Well, Alba Rosa Viëtor was an Italian violinist and composer who was born Alba Rosa in Milan in 1889. In 1919, she married Dutch businessman Jan Freseman Viëtor and in... 

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Reinbert de Leeuw in Zomergasten, not in Muziekzomer

In just over two weeks, the NJO Music Summer, with more than sixty-five concerts performed by young musicians, spread across more and less obvious locations in the province of Gelderland. One hundred and sixty young people flocked from all over the world to show their skills from 1 to 17 August. Anyone staying in Gelderland at that time could not possibly miss their presence.

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Anna Mikhailova: ‘Black Perfume gaat over verslaving en angst’

Amsterdam, 10-12-2012 – Afgelopen weekend begon het Babelfestival in het Ostadetheater, een initiatief van de Diamantfabriek. Deze twee jaar geleden opgerichte productiekern biedt jonge makers de kans kleinschalig muziektheater te ontwikkelen. Dit weekend volgt de première van Black Perfume, van de Russische componiste Anna Mikhailova en de Nederlandse regisseur Annechien Koerselman, naar het verhaal Morfine van Michail Boelgakov.

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Mahler Chamber Orchestra flirt vrolijk met Haydn, maar Russische componisten doen je het lachen vergaan #hf12

Heus waar. Er wordt gelachen in de klassieke muziek. Bij menig orkestrepetitie zijn de altvioolgrapjes niet van de lucht. En in het Concertgebouw kun je wel eens wat besmuikt gegniffel opvangen. Maar klassieke componisten staan niet bekend om hun humor. Behalve Joseph Haydn. De Weense componist bracht hier en daar een gezellige kwinkslag aan in zijn werk. Eén van zijn… 

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