Via Crucis meditation with De Leeuw and Sellars

By Olga de Kort, 23 March 2016

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Reviewed at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Eindhoven on 17 March 2016

Liszt, Via Crucis, S 53

Reinbert de Leeuw, Piano

Peter Sellars, Presenter

Kissing her hair: Barbara Hannigan at Park Avenue Armory

Jacob Slattery, 16th November

Barbara Hannigan joined pianist Reinbert de Leeuw for a Second Viennese School recital at the Park Avenue Armory.

*****

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

Ligeti, Chin and de Vries with Reinbert de Leeuw and Asko|Schönberg

Thea Derks, 14th November

Asko|Schönberg, ensemble in residence at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, opened the first edition of the Young Pianists Festival with a concert featuring two piano concertos, by György Ligeti and Klaas de Vries. The Dutch composer wrote his Second Piano Concerto for Daniël van der Hoeven, who won the Young Pianists Competition three years ago.

****1

Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 10th February

Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps.

*****

Voicing early modernism: The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 24th January

Billed as “The soundtrack of the 20th century”, The Rest is Noise season of 2013 has now commenced at the Southbank Centre. Concert programmes scheduled throughout January have focused on the Second Viennese School and its infamous break with western tonality.

*****

A feast for the ears at the opening night of Haarlem's Koorbiënnale

Renée Reitsma, 24th June

The Koorbiënnale in Haarlem is a biannual festival, organized for the sixth time this year. The opening night consisted of four exciting modern pieces and the world premiere of a new work by the Latvian composer Ēriks Eŝenvalds. The first piece played was Daan Manneke’s Topos for chorus and harmonium. It is a song cycle set to four poems by Arthur Rimbaud.

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Olga de Kort

Musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (The Netherlands) studied in Russia (piano, culture sciences), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, organ) where she has lived from 1998. She is active as a music journalist, lecturer in music history and culture and as a freelance musician. She writes for Piano Bulletin, Pianist, Luister, Preludium, De Klank, Het Orgel, Muziek&Liturgie, Kunstzone and Bachtrack. Besides her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a website about Russian music in the Netherlands. At this moment she is working on a book about Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and on a biography of Russian singer Anna El Tour.

Via Crucis meditation with De Leeuw and Sellars in Eindhoven