Nieuw Ensemble features young composers in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ

By Thea Derks, 17 January 2014

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Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 16 January 2014

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Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

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Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe and the LSO

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Songs and symphonies from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, concluding with a vision of “heavenly life” from Gustav Mahler.

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Conviction, passion and clarity: Sir Stephen Hough at Wigmore Hall

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Fragments by Brahms, Schoenberg and Schubert orbit Beethoven's Waldstein and Schumann's Carnaval in another masterful recital from Sir Stephen Hough.

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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