Cassandra Miller and Joanna Baillie: works in congruity

By Rose Dodd, 01 October 2021

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“shades of intention are also shaped, never intended to be quite captured”

Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 30 September 2021

Bailie, Artificial Environments nos. 1-5

Miller, Warblework

Bailie, From above and far away

Miller, Perfect Offering

Ives Ensemble

Five hours of mystic puzzles: Ives Ensemble perform Feldman's String Quartet II

Rutger Muller, 3rd October

Ives Ensemble are one of today’s important ambassadors of Feldman’s later works. In November 2011 they performed the 90-minute Piano, violin, viola, cello (1987) in Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. I wrote about that impressive performance and the history of Feldman’s music on Bachtrack.

****1

Ives Ensemble honors Morton Feldman's final piece Piano, violin, viola, cello

Rutger Muller, 15th November

Felix Meritis, located in central Amsterdam, is west Europe's oldest concert building. One of its concert series for fall 2011 is "News from the Front - 250 years of 'modern' music", offering performances by three renowned ensembles: the Van Swieten Society, the Ives Ensemble and the Asko Chamber Choir.

****1

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

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Rose Dodd

Amsterdam based composer Rose Dodd as well as writing for TEMPO (UK), seismograf (DK), Positionen (GER) also writes books about contemporary music, most recently on composers Christopher Fox and Louis Andriessen. Since being awarded a Mention at Prix Ars Electronica'99, her own work draws on inspiration found in the current Norwegian scene, combining ambient electronics with quiet focus on instrumental timbre.

Find more about Rose at Muck Rack and LinkedIn

Cassandra Miller and Joanna Baillie: works in congruity at the Muziekgebouw