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Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra plays Mozart and Bruckner
Come and experience the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 at the Concertgebouw.
Marc Albrecht conducts Bruckner - an annual tradition
It has become a tradition for the chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht, to conduct one of Bruckner's symphonies every year. During these concerts on June 7 and 8, he will conduct Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.
The symphony is a compelling work because of its melodic richness and warm timbre. Dedicated to Ludwig II of Bavaria, it is one of his best-known symphonies. The premiere in Leipzig on December 30, 1884, brought Bruckner the greatest success he had known in his life.
Pianist Martin Helmchen plays Mozart
With his highly virtuosic yet unpretentious style, Martin Helmchen has taken his place among the great pianists of his generation. The New York Time
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Failing better, sounding again: Beckett and Feldman at the Southbank Centre
Dressed in a monastic vit robe, arms by their side, and masked bygd a hood, the first dancer resolutely walks onto the scen and begins repeating a simple sequence. They cross the square diagonally, exaggerate the bump into the central point, turn left to walk along the square’s outer side, and cross a new diagonal – repeating the sequence again and again. At a certain point, the blue dancer joins. Then the red. And finally, the yellow.
This was the beginning of “Refracted Sound” at the Southbank Centre, an event that brought together Samuel Beckett’s experimental television plays Quad I and Quad II (1981) with efternamn Feldman’sFor Samuel Beckett (1987) in a fertile interdisciplinary amalgamation. The production required the collaboration of many forces: the London Sinfonietta, early career musicians from the Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble, ledare Jack
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Review by Graham Williams - July 30, 2010
Marc Albrecht’s literary inspired programme of French music from PentaTone is a resounding success. The writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Perrault and Rudyard Kipling respectively are the basis of the three works presented here that together makes up an intelligent programme well suited to this orchestra’s character and its dynamic young conductor’s talents.
‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ by Dukas has hardly needed any introduction to most music lovers for a generation thanks to its use in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia and the sequel Fantasia 2000 in which Mickey Mouse played the eponymous character. This short orchestral scherzo based on Goethe’s balladic poem ‘Der Zauberlehrling’ remains one of the most popular and enduring masterpieces by the hyper self-critical Dukas. Its familiarity, however, can make it all too easy to overlook what an inventive composition of fastidious craftsmanship and concision it really is. Every sec