Calefax and Nederlands Kamerkoor join forces in theatrical concert

Por Thea Derks, 04 abril 2014

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Crítica hecha desde Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Ámsterdam el 3 abril 2014

Heredia, Ensalada

Martland, Skywalk

Dolphy, God bless the child

Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time): Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus

Shostakovich, Preludio y fuga núm. 12 en sol sostenido menor, op. 87 (Arr for Wind Quintet)

Ockeghem, Mort tu as navré

Monteverdi, Lamento d'Arianna

de Chavarria, Fuera, fuera! Haganles lugar!

Bjarnason, Ek ken die nag

Dlamini, Woah Lashona

Calefax

Nederlands Kamerkoor

Robert Hollingworth, Dirección musical

Through the looking glass: Amsterdam Sinfonietta are a class act

Clare Varney, 12th May

Candida Thompson’s performance of Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel with understated beauty, immaculate phrasing and restrained emotion, steals the show.

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Roukens Requiem: eine Hommage an die Totenmesse

Michael Klier, 3rd November

Joey Roukens' Requiem ist eine abwechslungsreiche und tröstliche intime Komposition.

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Sublime singing in Scenes from Goethe's Faust

Jenny Camilleri, 6th December

Soloists and choir, headed by a spellbinding Christian Gerhaher, brought real lustre to Schumann’s treatment of Goethe’s magnum opus.

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Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities at Festival d’Aix

Pwyll ap Sion, 13th July

In his 2016 opera Blank Out, Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has managed to create a new kind of operatic ‘reality’ that resonates powerfully with today’s Zeitgeist. Highly recommended.

*****

Katrien Baerts überragt beim Amsterdammer Ligeti Festival

Michael Klier, 7th April

Katrien Baerts und die Musiker vom Asko|Schönberg zischten und swingten um die Wette, dass es vom ersten Moment an ein ansteckender musikalischer Genuss war.

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Ein klanggewaltiges Konzerterlebnis der besonderen Art

Michael Klier, 2nd February

Matthias Pintscher wusste als dirigierender Komponist zusammen mit Leila Josefowicz, der außergewöhnlichen Solistin seines Violinkonzerts und dem RCO Beeindruckendes auf die Bühne zu bringen.

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Thea Derks

Thea Derks studied English at Groningen University and musicology at Amsterdam University. She graduated with honours in 1996. She was singer/songwriter of the new-wave group Tess. She lectured on modern music in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw from 2003–12, gives pre-concert talks throughout the Netherlands, and is a reporter and programmer for Radio 4, the Dutch classical music station. She recently published a biography on Reinbert de Leeuw that has been well received. www.theaderks.wordpress.com