Speaking truth to power: Jaap van Zweden conducts Shostakovich

Jaap van Zweden

Jaap van Zweden and Kirill Gerstein

Von Eleanor Knight, 24 April 2023

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“the opening unison theme was a direct hit to the solar plexus”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp, am 21 April 2023

Mozart, Klavierkonzert Nr. 17 in G-Dur, KV453

Schostakowitsch, Symphonie Nr. 7 in C-Dur "Leningrad", Op.60

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Jaap van Zweden, Musikalische Leitung

Kirill Gerstein, Klavier

Antwerp Symphony opens season with magical Weber and exciting Schumann

Simon Thompson, 11th October

Philippe Herreweghe conducts Marie-Elisabeth Hecker in Schumann’s Cello Concerto in this fine programme in the Concertgebouw Brugge.

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Brilliant Szymanowski from Christian Tetzlaff and the Antwerp SO

Marc Haegeman, 9th January

Christian Tetzlaff conjures brilliant colour and ecstatic passion from Szymanowski's First Violin concerto in Ghent.

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Philippe Herreweghe et le Collegium Vocale Gent font frémir Bozar

Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 27th April

À la tête de l'Antwerp Symphony Orchestra et d'un formidable Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe propose un Requiem de Verdi orageux et passionné malgré un inégal quatuor de solistes.

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Elder and Elgar: riveting Enigma Variations from Sir Mark in Antwerp

Cameron Kelsall, 14th May

Mezzo-soprano Stephanie d'Oustrac also met the dramatic and musical challenges of Berlioz's Les Nuits d’été.

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Philippe Herreweghe conducts an energetic Mozart Requiem in Antwerp

Edward Sava-Segal, 7th May

Despite distancing, the members of Collegium Vocale Gent filled the Queen Elisabeth Hall with an impressively cohesive sound, transparent and powerful at the same time.

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Jaap van Zweden welcomed back in Antwerp

Zoltán Szabó, 12th February

The Dutch conductor returns to his old orchestra for a concert stream of Beethoven, with Nicholas Angelich, and Tchaikovsky.

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.

Speaking truth to power: Jaap van Zweden conducts Shostakovich in Antwerp