Polyphonic Amsterdam
Tania Kross sings Antillean aria’s, Bas Wiegers conducts music from Surinam and Amsterdam
Bas Wiegers leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in a program that reflects the polyphony of the city of Amsterdam. Featuring soprano Katrien Baerts, mezzo-soprano Tania Kross and the Netherlands Radio Choir.
In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, the whole world resonates in an Amsterdam appartment.
Concert programme
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Theo Verbey
Notturno
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Eddy Vervuurt
Fantasie (orch. Th. Beijer)
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Randal Corsen
Suite ‘Katibu di Shon’ (from the opera based on Carel de Haseth’s book)
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Calliope Tsoupaki
Another Day (commission, world premiere)
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Louis Andriessen
The City of Dis, or: The Ship of Fools
Performers
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Bas Wiegers
conductor
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Netherlands Radio Choir
choir
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Katrien Baerts
soprano
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Tania Kross
mezzo-soprano
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Ivan Podyomov
principal oboe
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Anneke Brassinga
poetry
About this concert
Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. The more diverse the mix, the stronger the city’s character. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. Bas Wiegers leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Choir and soloists in a unique programme of many voices. Tania Kross sings songs from several cultures, and evokes the rich culture of the Antilles in arias from Randal Corsen’s Katibu di shon, the first opera in Papiamentu. In addition, the orchestra performs a work by the Surinamese composer Eddy Vervuurt (1928-1988) and three Dutch composers.
In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, the whole world resonates in an Amsterdam appartment. In Louis Andriessen’s opera De stad van Dis (The City of Dis), we board the Ship of Fools and enter a hellish city, one of water and fire. Andriessen was an inspiring composition teacher, drawing young composers from all over the world to Keizersgracht in Amsterdam for lessons. Some stayed on to further enrich musical life here, such as the former Composer Laureate of the Netherlands Calliope Tsoupaki. The memory of her arrival in Amsterdam over 35 years ago inspired her newly commissioned work, Another Day, written in response to a poignant, image-rich poem by Anneke Brassinga.
This concert will be enriched by surtitles and images by Frouke ten Velden.
This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. The more diverse the mix, the stronger the city’s character. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. Bas Wiegers leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Choir and soloists in a unique programme of many voices. Tania Kross sings songs from several cultures, and evokes the rich culture of the Antilles in arias from Randal Corsen’s Katibu di shon, the first opera in Papiamentu. In addition, the orchestra performs a work by the Surinamese composer Eddy Vervuurt (1928-1988) and three Dutch composers.
In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, the whole world resonates in an Amsterdam appartment. In Louis Andriessen’s opera De stad van Dis (The City of Dis), we board the Ship of Fools and enter a hellish city, one of water and fire. Andriessen was an inspiring composition teacher, drawing young composers from all over the world to Keizersgracht in Amsterdam for lessons. Some stayed on to further enrich musical life here, such as the former Composer Laureate of the Netherlands Calliope Tsoupaki. The memory of her arrival in Amsterdam over 35 years ago inspired her newly commissioned work, Another Day, written in response to a poignant, image-rich poem by Anneke Brassinga.
This concert will be enriched by surtitles and images by Frouke ten Velden.
This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.