Katrien Baerts überragt beim Amsterdammer Ligeti Festival

By Michael Klier, 09 April 2018

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Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 7 April 2018

Ligeti, Lux aeterna

Ligeti, Kammerkonzert für 13 Instrumente

Ligeti, Three fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin

Ligeti, Nacht, morgen

Ligeti, Pápainé

Ligeti, Nonsense Madrigals

Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre

Het Muziek (formerly Asko|Schönberg)

Nederlands Kamerkoor

Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor

Katrien Baerts, Soprano

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.

****1

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.

****1

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.

*****

Buoyant Brahms’ First from the RCO under Iván Fischer

Jenny Camilleri, 6th April

Bach’s Magnificat featured superlative solos from both singers and musicians, but the RCO and Iván Fischer reached a higher plane in a beautifully crafted and optimistic Brahms’ First Symphony.

****1

Fabulous soloists in the RCO’s St John Passion

Jenny Camilleri, 27th March

Superlative vocal and instrumental soloists, led by Michael Schade as a vividly intense Evangelist, impress in Bach’s St John Passion at the Concertgebouw.

****1

A poignantly beautiful opening to Valletta's festival

Katy Wright, 10th January

Robert White's Lamentations bring a programme of English polyphony to a memorable climax.

****1

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Michael Klier

Michael Klier macht schon seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert Musik. Als gebürtiger Berliner kam er 1993 nach Amsterdam. Er war Mitglied unterschiedlichster internationaler Ensembles und Orchester. Heute betreibt er eine florierende Unterrichts- und Coachingpraxis. Als Teamcoach bietet er dort Schulungen an, in denen die Kursteilnehmer miteinander komponieren, um so ihre ungenutzten kreativen Potentiale zu entdecken und besser miteinander zu kommunizieren. Denn: Musiker sind die Architekten des Himmels.