Brazilian-flavoured Rite of Spring opens the Holland Festival

Evangelia Kranioti's film to accompany The Rite of Spring

Karina Canellakis and Christiane Jatahy

By Eleanor Knight, 10 June 2024

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“reawakens the extraordinary extremity of Stravinsky’s original score”

Reviewed at Westergasfabriek: Gashouder, Amsterdam on 6 June 2024

Shaw, Music in Common Time

Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Ticheli, Earth Song

Christiane Jatahy, Director

Evangelía Kranióti, Video

Cappella Amsterdam

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest)

Karina Canellakis, Conductor

Denève, Lewis and the Netherlands Radio Phil in Utrecht

Laurence Vittes, 23rd January

At TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal: a program of Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann that, intentionally or not, invited reflection on long-range musical continuity.

***11

Edward Gardner conducts an emotional L'Enfance du Christ in Utrecht

Clare Varney, 19th December

The Netherlands National Radio Choir and National Children's Choir amplify the emotional intensity of Berlioz's L’ Enfance du Christ at TivoliVredenburg.

****1

Mirrors and echoes: Pierre Boulez celebrated at the Lucerne Festival

Elodie Olson-Coons, 27th August

Liv Redpath and Bertrand Chamayou shine at the Lucerne Festival in this celebration of Pierre Boulez's legacy.

****1

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius

Clare Varney, 13th June

British vocal talent adds some very British glamour to the closing Avrotros Friday concert featuring Elgar's most famous oratorio.

***11

White-knuckle ride: Bomsori Kim plays Tchaikovsky at the Concertgebouw

Eleanor Knight, 3rd July

Bomsori Kim tackles the dangers of Tchaikovsky's concerto, before Ryan Bancroft and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic hurtle through Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

****1

Grounded Beethoven, intense Shostakovich in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 12th May

Karina Canellakis brings her Netherlands Radio Philharmonic to the Musikverein, joined by Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto.

****1

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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.