06 Mar 2025 20:15
Venue:
Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Presenter:
This programme was made possible thanks to the financial support of Ammodo.
Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor:
Bas Wiegers
Artists:
Ivan Podyomov
principal oboe; Tania Kross
mezzo-soprano
Amsterdam has been harboring outside influences for 750 years. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, a world of music resonates in an Amsterdam stairwell. Tania Kross sings fifty-year-old songs in which the more distressing sides of Amsterdam are not glossed over, while the rich culture of the Antilles resounds in a suite from Randal Corsen’s Katibu di shon, the first ever opera in Papiamentu.
Greek-born composer Calliope Tsoupaki has been living and working in Amsterdam for over 35 years and was Composer Laureate of the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021. The memory of her arrival in Amsterdam inspired her newly commissioned work, Another Day, written in response to a poignant, image-rich poem by Anneke Brassinga. Conductor Bas Wiegers concludes this program of many voices with the exciting music of Silvestre Revualtas evoking the pre-colonial Mexican landscapes and cultures.
This concert will be enriched by surtitles and images by Frouke ten Velden.
Program
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Theo Verbey, Notturno
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Joop Stokkermans, Meisje uit de provinsie in het magies centrum (orch. Thomas Beijer)
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Joop Stokkermans, Zo tolerant (orch. Thomas Beijer)
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Calliope Tsoupaki Another Day (commission, world premiere)
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Randal Corsen, Suite ‘Katibu di Shon’ (from the opera based on Carel de Haseth’s book)
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Silvestre Revueltas, Cuauhnáhuac