Amsterdam 750 years

Muziek city Amsterdam - from Sweelinck to Tsoupaki

image: Andrés Barrios

Come and celebrate Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary with us! Music from Amsterdam is being performed at the Concertgebouw on the organ and by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Choir and soloists, all under the direction of Bas Wiegers.

With Louis Andriessen we will board the Ship of Fools and enter the hellish City of Dis.

Concert programme

  • Jeff Hamburg

    Mokum, for choir (commission NTR SaturdayMatinee, world premiere)

  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    Music from ‘Cantiones sacrae’ for choir

  • Rudolf Escher

    Songs of Love and Eternity

  • Louis Andriessen

    'Un beau baiser' for choir a cappella

  • -- interval --

  • Calliope Tsoupaki

    Another Day (commission, world premiere)

  • Louis Andriessen

    The City of Dis, or: The Ship of Fools

Performers

  • Bas Wiegers

    conductor

  • Benjamin Goodson

    choral conductor

  • Netherlands Radio Choir

    choir

  • Katrien Baerts

    soprano

  • Maxim Februari

    spoken voice

  • 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. As a city of music, Amsterdam is made up of many voices. Around 1600, people would come from far and wide to visit the composer and city organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Since 1888, the Concertgebouw and the Concertgebouw Orchestra have served as international ambassadors of the city – and of the Netherlands. 

In the twentieth century, the composer and inspiring teacher Louis Andriessen was for years a magnet for young musicians from all over the world. Many of them would go on to further enrich musical life here, such as Jeff Hamburg and the former Composer Laureate of the Netherlands Calliope Tsoupaki. Brand-new works by both have been programmed on this Saturday Matinee concert. With Andriessen, who passed away in 2021, we will board the Ship of Fools and enter the hellish City of Dis, a city of water and fire. 

This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.

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About this concert

Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. The more diverse the mix, the stronger the city’s character. As a city of music, Amsterdam is made up of many voices. Around 1600, people would come from far and wide to visit the composer and city organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Since 1888, the Concertgebouw and the Concertgebouw Orchestra have served as international ambassadors of the city – and of the Netherlands. 

In the twentieth century, the composer and inspiring teacher Louis Andriessen was for years a magnet for young musicians from all over the world. Many of them would go on to further enrich musical life here, such as Jeff Hamburg and the former Composer Laureate of the Netherlands Calliope Tsoupaki. Brand-new works by both have been programmed on this Saturday Matinee concert. With Andriessen, who passed away in 2021, we will board the Ship of Fools and enter the hellish City of Dis, a city of water and fire. 

This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.

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