'This is one of Theo Verbey’s finest compositions. [...] The piece’s convincing power is also due to the brilliant performance by the three members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra [...] And the music itself is magnificent: fresh, without cheap nostalgia or regression, and of a caliber that triumphantly overcomes any fear of modernity.' – ©Emanuel…

'Dit is een van de beste composities van Theo Verbey.[...] Dat het stuk zeer overtuigt, is mede te danken aan de schitterende uitvoering door de drie leden van het Concertgebouworkest [...] En de muziek is schitterend: nieuw, zonder goedkope nostalgie en regressie, en van een niveau dat de angst voor de moderniteit glansrijk overwint.' – ©Emanuel…

'Cappella Amsterdam, New European Ensemble o.l.v. Daniel Reuss, Zero Dance Theatre. Programma: Igor Stravinsky: Étude pour pianola, Circus Polka voor harmonium en cimbalon, Chorale voor harmonium, Otche Nash (Our Father), Symphony of Psalms (arr. Dmitri Sjostakovitsj voor piano vier handen), Petrushka voor pianola, Trois pièces faciles, Les Noces…

Les Noces culmineerde aldus allengs in een pandemonium van klanken dat niet onderdoet voor de wildste passages van een Sacre met alles erop en eraan (vol symfonisch orkest en vol ballet).

" Built from instrumental force and vocal vigour, Stravinsky’s vision of the wedding is taken up by contemporary performers and expanded through their contrasting disciplines. Cappella Amsterdam, the New European Ensemble, and Zero Dance Theatre bring his work to the stage in its rarely heard 1919 instrumentation, foregrounding Stravinsky’s…

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland The notion of orchestrating a work for piano (or a piece of chamber music), in this case the single-movement Opus One Sonata of Alban Berg, begs the question, why? You may create something that overshadows the original (Mussorgsky/Ravel…

'In his final years, Verbey became more and more a composer of substantial forms with a classical instinct for proportion and with a neo-tonal character, in both harmony and gesture. These five pieces are not what you'd call substantial (the shortest lasts a minute, the longest less than three). But they are unmistakably neo-tonal in the broadest…

"Of all his ballets, Stravinsky’s Les Noces – an evocation of Russian peasant wedding rituals – was the one he laboured over longest as he changed his mind several times about its instrumentation. Here, for the first time, is a recording of the entire ballet-cantata using the line-up Stravinsky favoured but reluctantly abandoned in 1919. [...]…

Ensemble Aedes/Les Siècles/Romano An early unfinished version of the 1923 landmark work, completed by Theo Verbey almost 100 years after Stravinsky conceived it, is earthy, lean and superbly performed. [...] "Stravinsky had first conceived the idea of a ballet based on the wedding rituals of Russian peasants in 1913. He completed the short score…

"[...] Four youngsters nestle between the perfect beauty of Theo Verbey, who died in 2019, and the funny beauty of Martijn Padding.[...]"