Immersive cinematic experience: Reich/Richter in Amsterdam

By Clare Varney, 06 April 2025

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“an odyssey of patterns moving seamlessly across the screen”

Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 3 April 2025

Reich, Clapping Music

Reich, Four Organs

Reich, Reich/Richter

Theun Mosk / Ruimtetijd, Set Designer

Het Muziek (formerly Asko|Schönberg)

Colin Currie, Conductor, Percussion

Corinna Belz, Film maker

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

Martijn Padding's new opera Laika launched at the Holland Festival

Thea Derks, 3rd June

Martijn Padding's opera Laika is let down by its libretto, which illustrates that though authors may write successful novels, this doesn’t necessarily imply they can also produce good theatre texts.

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Clare Varney

Clare is a freelance writer and music critic from the UK, currently living in the Netherlands where she writes about Music, Food and Culture. Clare is a passionate musician, having learnt the violin and piano from an early age. When not at her laptop writing, she spends her time nurturing the next generation of brass players, all from her Dutch kitchen in the sky. Read more at The Spidy Editor.

Euphoric and immersive cinematic experience: Reich/Richter in Amsterdam