Amsterdam: 750 years
Programme
- Lecture by Maxim February
- Jeff Hamburg Mokum
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck from Cantiones sacrae: Selection
- Rudolf Escher Songs of love and eternity
- Louis Andriessen from George Sand: Un beau baiser
- Recitation by Anneke Brassinga
- Calliope Tsoupaki Another day (world premiere)
- Louis Andriessen The City of Dis
The NTR Saturday Matinee puts Amsterdam in the spotlight as it celebrates 750 years of the city.
Music by Amsterdam residents
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor perform commissioned works by former composer of the nation Calliope Tsoupaki and Jeff Hamburg. With songs by Renaissance composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Rudolf Escher from the last century, the program spans four centuries of music by Amsterdam natives. Louis Andriessen is of course also on hand, with "Un beau baiser," a song from the opera George Sand wrote for theater group Baal, and "The City of Dis" from La Commedia. In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Dis is a city in the depths of hell, a city of violators, usurers and blasphemers.
750 years of magical creativity
Calliope Tsoupaki wants her composition to express her love of music, which brought her to Amsterdam. Jeff Hamburg hooks into the city's Jewish history, expressing 750 years of magical creativity.
Performers
Netherlands Radio Choir
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Bas Wiegers
Conductor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Orchestra
Anneke Brassinga
Speaker
Maxim February
Speaker
Katrien Baerts
Soprano, Beatrice
Yuan Xia
Marimba
Anke Brewer
Soundscape
Coming soon
Classic Hits by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Stéphane Denève: Poulenc Revisited
Oriental Sounds by Sheherazade & Darvishi
Adventurous top soloists
Rossini's Stabat Mater
Rossini’s *Stabat Mater* with the Groot Omroepkoor
Fausto, a forgotten opera
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra with Thomas Beijer
