We would like to invite you to our coming concerts:
Amsterdam Saturday afternoon March 21st at 1 PM English Reformed Church, Begijnhof 48, 1012 WV Amsterdam
Utrecht Sunday evening March 22 at 8 PM Silokerk Herenstraat 36, 3512 KD Utrecht
We do not charge admission to our concerts but we very much appreciate your donations which help us to pay the rent of the church, the programs, posters and for our musicians.
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We are thrilled to have pianist Henry Kelder, an international artist, and professor of piano at the Utrecht Conservatory, performing with us again. He once coached the Hommage a’ R. Schumann with the Hungarian composer Kurtag and this insight will surely deepen our understanding of the piece.
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Please join us for this musical adventure through Hungary, Germany, England, and France. |
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Rietveld Ensemble and Friends |
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Henry Kelder, piano Erik Janse, tenor Elisabeth Perry, violin Richard Wolfe, viola Matthias Naegele, cello Nancy Braithwaite, clarinet |
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György Kurtág
Hommage á R. Sch. Op. 15d for viola, clarinet and piano
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Roger Quilter
Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22 for tenor, violin, cello, and piano
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Paul Hindemith
Quartet for violin, cello, clarinet en piano (only in Utrecht)
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Quartet Op. 41 in Bb
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Here is some interesting background information on Kurtag’s composition.
“Hommage à Robert Schumann is based on Märchenerzählungen by Schumann and uses the same instrumentation. Kurtág wrote the first movement in 1975 and completed it in1990. The movements of this short (10 minute) work refer to Schumann’s alter egos Florestan, Eusebius and Meister Raro and also in the first movement to Johannes Kreisler, a fictional moody, anti-social composer, who was the alter ego of the novelist E T A Hoffmann, and who in turn inspired Schumann’s Kreisleriana. The first five movements are, as with Webern, very short. The longer last movement refers to Guillaume de Machaut, a 14th-century poet, and composer who was especially influential in the development of isorhythmic motets (in which a repeating rhythm helps to unify a piece). Here the three players independently repeat their own rhythmic pattern, the piano strictly, the other two parts gradually condensing their rhythms. Does Meister Raro reconcile them?” |
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Paul Hindemith, one of the most important German composers of the 20th century, wrote his Quartet for the unusual combination of violin, clarinet, cello and piano in 1938, just a few years before Messiaen composed his famous Quartet for the End of Time in 1941 for the same instrumentation. |
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| The English composer Roger Quilter is known particularly for his songs and we are very happy to welcome back the marvelous tenor, Erik Janse, to share these vocal treasures with you. The beautiful Piano Quartet by the French composer Saint-Saens was premiered in March 1875 with the composer at the piano and on the violin the famous virtuoso, Pablo de Sarasate.
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The following concerts in this series will be on Saturday, May 16th at 1 PM in Amsterdam and Sunday, May 17th at 8 PM in Utrecht. Canadian pianist Elaine Hou and hornist Hans Dullaert will join us at that time for works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Kahn, and Franz Schubert. |
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