Tag Archives: NTRZaterdagmatinee

Let me tell you Hans Abrahamsen – Ophelia resumes control

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Thea Derks

Hans Abrahamsen hopes to celebrate his 70th birthday in December 2022, but is already a central composer in NTR ZaterdagMatinee. On 29 January his Horn Concerto received its belated Dutch premiere; in May Asko|Schönberg will perform his trilogy Winternacht / … Continue reading →

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Le grand macabre György Ligeti: Surprisingly topical opera about the end of time

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Thea Derks

In Le Grand Macabre, the only opera György Ligeti ever composed, the protagonist Nekrotzar announces the end of time, but at the moment supreme he is the only one who perishes. The absurdist work was staged in this country in … Continue reading →

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Thomas Larcher voices fatal mountain climb in Third Symphony

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Thea Derks

In 2020, the world premiere of Thomas Larcher‘s Third Symphony fell through due to corona. The subtitle A Line Above the Sky refers to British mountaineer Tom Ballard, who fatally crashed in 2019. It wasn’t until February 2021 that the … Continue reading →

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Sam Adams’ take on Concerto grosso premieres in Concertgebouw: Movements (for us and them)

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Thea Derks

For the season 2020-2021 Samuel Adams was booked as composer in residence of The Concertgebouw. Both his residency in Amsterdam and the new orchestral work he was to compose for NTRZaterdagMatinee fell prey to Covid-19 however. On Saturday 22 May the … Continue reading →

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Thomas Larcher: ‘Each composition is an excavation from my past’

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Thea Derks

On Saturday 22 May, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, principal conductor Karina Canellakis and pianist Kirill Gerstein will premiere the new Piano Concerto by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher in NTRZaterdagMatinee. – Unfortunately still no audience is allowed in Main Hall The … Continue reading →

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Conductor Markus Stenz: ‘Sometimes I feel: now it’s music’.

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Thea Derks

In 2012 Markus Stenz was appointed chief conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, based in Hilversum. He conducted both classical masterworks, world premières and lesser known repertoire by Dutch composers, in NTRZaterdagMatinee in Concertgebouw Amsterdam and AVROTROSVrijdagconcert in TivoliVredenburg … Continue reading →

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Carola Bauckholt concocts music from sludge flakes and animal sounds

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Thea Derks

On May 18 NTRZaterdagMatinee presents an adventurous programme. The German Ensemble Musikfabrik will perform two world premières and a Dutch première by five composers of the same generation, four of whom are women. I earlier wrote about the pieces of … Continue reading →

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Rebecca Saunders composes music like a sculptor

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Thea Derks

Women composers invisible? Yes, they are still very much underrepresented in most concert series, though not in this season’s NTRZaterdagMatinee. Of the five compositions the German Ensemble Musikfabrik presents on 18 May, four were written by a woman. Among them … Continue reading →

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Unsuk Chin: grinning teeth and false magic in Gougalōn

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Thea Derks

Unsuk Chin (1961) is one of the most successful composers of our time. She won the Gaudeamus Award in 1985, the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 2004, and was recently honoured with the Bach Prize 2019 of the city of Hamburg. … Continue reading →

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Mathilde Wantenaar: Lush harmonies in new piece for Dutch Radio Choir

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Thea Derks

This season NTRZaterdagMatinee makes up for decades of neglecting female composers, featuring well-known names such as Kaija Saariaho and Unsuk Chin next to lesser-known composers such as Calliope Tsoupaki and Kate Whitley. On Saturday 23 March the Dutch Radio Choir … Continue reading →

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