Concerts 2011/2012 Chamber Music
The chamber music series of the DoelenEnsemble will start its second season with again three countries in the spotlight. In the first programme the listener is taken on travels through France.
In this second program of chamber music the DoelenEnsemble will perform works of three captivating American composers, spanning approximately a century of music. Ornstein, Antheil and Adams take the listener on a gallery expedition of beautifully threadlike sounds, lyrical lines and minimalistic pieces.
Centering around the work of Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet, the listener encounters beauteous colours of composers for whom Mahler is or has been important.
Peter-Jan Wagemans is artistic director of the DoelenEnsemble and in honour of his 60th birthday his beautifully written string quartets have been programmed in one concert together with two other Dutch composers.
The third and last concert of the series chamber music by country makes a journey through Germany. The work of Hans Werner Henzeis clearly expressionistic, a style in which harmonic and melodic structures converse with the listener.
The unrequited love of Bartók for Stefi Geyer conveyed in his first string quartet may recall to mind Beethoven’s work, but in Bartók’s string quartet the hopeful progression does not come to absolution but to reconciliation.
26 May
Laurenskerk Rotterdam
26 May
Laurenskerk Rotterdam
30 May
Anatole
31 May
Anatole
1 Jun
Anatole
26 Sep
Concert Hall de Doelen, Rotterdam
Doelen Ensemble
P.O. BOX 972
3000 AZ Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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