Warm-Up for the World Minimal Music Festival 2013

By Rutger Muller, 04 April 2012

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Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 31 March 2012

Moore, 101

Riley, A Rainbow in Curved Air (arr. Marinissen/Fiumara)

Eno, Discreet Music for Tape

Reich, Double Sextet

Percussion Students from Amsterdam Conservatory

Lunapark

Het Muziek (formerly Asko|Schönberg)

Ensemble Klang

Tom Trago, Electronics

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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Rutger Muller

A masters student in music technology from Amsterdam, Rutger searched for peculiarly beautiful sounds in experimental electronic music, and later learned to appreciate the acoustic sounds of contemporary classic music. He's always on the look-out for new music that can instantly captivate him.