Ensemble Modern the ultimate precision instrument in Amsterdam

Sir George Benjamin conducts Ensemble Modern

Sir George Benjamin, Helena Rasker and Keren Motseri

Par Eleanor Knight, 18 septembre 2023

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“the muted trumpet struck like a sharpened flint out of an harmonic veil”

Critique faite à Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam, le 16 septembre 2023

Benjamin, At First Light, for chamber orchestra

Ligeti, Concerto de chambre

Benjamin, Into the Little Hill

Ensemble Modern

Keren Motseri, Soprano

Sir George Benjamin, Direction

Helena Rasker, Mezzo-soprano

Olga Neuwirth à l'honneur de la 35e édition du Festival Présences

Chloë Rouge, 4th February

Consacrée à la musique de la compositrice autrichienne, l'édition 2025 du festival a proposé une pléiade de créations d'esthétiques variées, de l'énergie folle de Christophe Bertrand au bruitisme de Margareta Ferek-Petrić.

A House of Call de Goebbels aux confins du temps et de la mémoire

Chloë Rouge, 25th November

Entrer dans l'œuvre bouillonnante de Heiner Goebbels, c’est voir son expérience d’écoute du concert se transformer. Retour sur un événement mémorable, porté par la virtuosité de l'Ensemble Modern Orchestra.

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Ensemble Modern stages a post-war Modernist revival

Kurt Gottschalk, 3rd July

In Frankfurt, a set of new works sound a little too familiar to one pair of old ears.

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Habt keine Angst: Muntendorfs Melencolia beim Holland Festival

Michael Klier, 19th June

Melencolia ist ein komplexes Projekt, das das Potenzial moderner Technologien im traditionellen Format der Oper demonstriert und uns gleichzeitig einen Spiegel vorhält.

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Ensemble Modern brings music of global migration to New York City

Kurt Gottschalk, 13th April

Ensemble Modern devote a night at Zankel Hall to musical tracings of migratory patterns with works by ex-pat composers born in Cuba, South Africa and the United States.

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Sounds of nature: Francesco Filidei world premiere in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 3rd September

At the Musikfest Berlin, Sir George Benjamin and the Ensemble Modern present an all-contemporary programme reflecting on nature, including Cantico delle Creature.

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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.

Ensemble Modern the ultimate precision instrument at the Concertgebouw