Asko|Schönberg play Debussy and Ravel

By Cynthia Wilson, 19 January 2014

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Reviewed at Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht on 18 January 2014

Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin

Debussy, Preludes: selection (transc. Hans Zender)

Ravel, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

Grisey, Partiels for eighteen musicians

Het Muziek (formerly Asko|Schönberg)

Etienne Siebens, Conductor

Katrien Baerts, Soprano

Immersive cinematic experience: Reich/Richter in Amsterdam

Clare Varney, 3rd April

British percussionist Colin Currie joins Asko|Schönberg at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ for performances of Reich/Richter, a visual and musical feast.

****1

Blinding ice: Finsterer's frozen Antarctica at the Sydney Festival

Jeremy Eccles, 5th January

Gorgeous music by Mary Finsterer and an evocative setting by Elizabeth Gadsby transport you to the ends of the earth.

****1

A portrait of Hans Abrahamsen at the Concertgebouw

Rose Dodd, 14th May

For a programme given by Asko|Schönberg at the Concertgebouw, Hans Abrahamsen’s choice of his own works spans an important and transitory period of creative stillness.

****1

Pulsating new Andriessen at Holland Festival

Jenny Camilleri, 11th June

Louis Andriessen’s new opera is a masterly expedition into the grand and grotesque mind of Athanasius Kircher, polymath and fantastist, but it is hampered by a clumsy libretto.

***11

Noordegraaf musical theatre captivates

David Pinedo, 12th June

Arnoud Noordegraaf’s As Big as the Sky received more than the usual attention at the Holland Festival due to his collaboration with Ai Weiwei.

****1

Asko|Schönberg premières Rzewski

Thea Derks, 5th March

A Dog's Life – Frederic Rzewski's 2nd Piano Concerto – is full of playful detail, but a little too long.

***11

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Cynthia Wilson

Boston-born, educated at Concord Academy and Sarah Lawrence College, Cynthia Wilson studied harpsichord in Amsterdam. She has performed, taught and held significant management positions: public radio, Philips Hall, Rotterdam Philharmonic. Wilson subsequently founded wwclassics: (arts) policy and (events) production. She recently published the biography of Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio).

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