Thursday 25 April 2024, 20:15
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György Kurtág’s Kafka-Fragmente
Keren Motseri soprano Joe Puglia violin
An iconic masterpiece
“With fearless technique, Motseri explores every corner of Kurtág’s extreme sound world. When a waltz casually appears in the last movement, Motseri and Puglia fill the space with more flair than a Viennese string orchestra. A moment later, an abstract piece of Eastern European folk music thunders into the dance hall, which the virtuoso Puglia draws out of his violin with ferocity and passion. Motseri and Puglia play as if they share the same dream.”De Volkskrant ***** Keren Motseri and violinist Joseph Puglia are always inspiring. On stage they challenge each other to find drama in their dialogues, but also the subtlest nuances. A long-cherished wish comes true: they perform György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments . A masterpiece by the now 98-year-old Hungarian composer and an iconic cylce of the 20th century. The two musicians travelled to Budapest to spend several days working on the piece with the perfectionist Kurtág. The Kafka Fragments is a journey into Kafka’s world. The music demands the utmost from the musicians: extroverted theatre, but also heartfelt introspection.
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Two concert festival
It is a trend: piano music that is becoming simpler and simpler, performed by pianists who seem to lose themselves in a dreamy atmosphere. The composer/pianist Ludovico Einadi is enjoying unprecedented popularity. Nearly two centuries ago Chopin and Liszt were moving in the complete opposite direction. Inspired by the demonic virtuosity of Paganini, they began to write increasingly complex pieces for piano. Their goal was to advance piano technique, but above all to enable pianists to transcend themselves and their instrument with new worlds of sound and expression. They liked to embrace etudes for their innovations. Also Debussy, Bartok, Ligeti and Rachmaninov composed groundbreaking etudes to challenge themselves and pianists. To this day, composers write etudes to push boundaries.Nathalia Milstein and Antonii Baryshesvkyi , we have invited two master pianists for a two concert fesival with etudes, from Chopin to contemporary composers. An ode to the power of imagination.
Wednesday 29 May 2024, 20:15
etudes
Etudes-Tableaux
Nathalia Milstein piano
Fairy tales and paintings
“One of the greatest talents of the new generation.” France Musique is full of praise for pianist Nathalia Milstein , known for her successes on the biggest concert stages. She opens our two concert festival of piano etudes with Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux opus 39. These etudes are inspired by fairy tales and paintings. Although Rachamninov kept his sources of inspiration to himself, it is clear that each of the nine etudes tells a compelling story of its own. The music presents the pianist with great technical challenges, but above all it demands a maximum palette of colours and great narrative power. Qualities that Nathalia Milstein excels in. Her previous performances of Rachmaninov's masterpiece left a deep impression. She also performs Pièces de clavecin by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Claude Debussy’s Images and Thème et Variations by Gabriel Fauré .
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Thursday 30 May 2024, 20:15
etudes
From Chopin till Shalygin
Antonii Baryshesvkyi piano
An ode to imagination
Pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi presents a full evening of etudes. Iconic piano works by Chopin , Liszt , Debussy , Bartók and Ligeti alongside a wide range of contemporary etudes by Shalygin , Lunyon , Kerkelov , Hosokawa and Szymanski . Baryshevskyi continues to captivate audiences with an inexhaustible palette of colours and the communicative power of his playing. He has won prestigious competitions and has been acclaimed in leading venues from the Wigmore Hall in London to the Philharmonie in Berlin. This recital is an exhilarating journey through several musical time periods and an ode to the boundless imagination of composers who explore new worlds of sound.
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Sunday 22 September 2024, 20:30
Geestverwanten
Drop after Drop
Kamerorkest van het Noordenconductor Maryana Golovchenko sopranoNico de Rooij lightning design
An appeal to peace
A call for peace and a tribute to the innocent victims of the war in Ukraine. The Chamber Orchestra of the North performs Drop after Drop . It is an international ensemble of 20 young string players. We were so impressed by their inspired playing that we invited them to make their debut in The Hague, with the distinguished composer and conductor Maxim Shalygin leading the ensemble in works by himself and his Ukrainian compatriots Svyatoslav Lunyov and Valentin Silvestrov . Soprano Maryana Golovchencko sings intermezzi between the compositions. A meditative and introspective programme enhanced by a lighting design by Nico de Rooij .
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Wednesday 29 November 2023, 20:15
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Sublimely Intimate: Opera Gala in the Salon
Elisabeth Hetherington soprano Barokensemble Postscript Aysha Wills traverso
Cynthia Freivogel & Tomoe Badiarova violin
Iteke Wijbenga viola
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde cello
Artem Belogurov harpsichord
Opera in the Salon
Elisabeth Hetherington's star is rising fast. For both early music and new music, she is a dream interpreter, with a radiant voice and an equally lucid imagination. This opera gala takes us back to the eighteenth-century noble salon, where visitors loved to listen to the hits from the opera theatre in domestic settings. Many popular opera arias from that era were brilliantly arranged for smaller ensemble. These are brought to life by Postscript, one of the best baroque ensembles in our country. A programme with arias by Handel, Hasse, Bononcini and other grandmasters.
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Thursday 16 November 2023, 20:00
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Phonoramas by Godowsky and Debussy
Tobias Borsboom piano
A masterpiece
Dutch pianist Tobias Borsboom likes to search for hidden treasures in the piano repertoire. On one of his quests he came across the Java Suite by the composer Leopold Godowsky . Godowsky was on a concert tour in Indonesia in 1924 and fell under the spell of Java's temples, jungles, cities and volcanoes. He wrote an hour-long musical travelogue: virtuoso piano music that allows the pianist to conjure a kaleidoscopic palette of colours from the piano.
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Friday 17 November 2023, 20:15
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Contrasts
Coraline Groen violin Jelmer de Moed clarinetRik Kuppen piano
In Full Swing
About 100 years ago, jazz, tango and other dance music breathed new life into the compositions of a growing number of composers. Clarinettist Jelmer de Moed, violinist Coraline Groen and Rik Kuppen play a colourful programme around Bartók's Contrasts, written for jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman, with plenty of room for swing. Works by Bernstein, Gershwin, Milhaud, Stravinsky and Ives are also on the programme.
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