Agenda

HOT POT

Verschillende smaken in één klassiek concert

Chinese Hot Pot – ofwel Chinese fondue – is een ware sociale aangelegenheid. Vele bakjes met vlees, vis en groenten verzamelen zich rond een grote, metalen pan, waarin de hapjes gezamenlijk gegaard en bereid kunnen worden.

Geïnspireerd door deze vele verschillende smaken op hun tournee door China, presenteert het Amstel Quartet nu zijn eigen muzikale Hot Pot: een bonte mix van uiteenlopende smaken, stijlen en componisten. Met op het programma werk van onder meer Beethoven, Mozart en Reich.

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Chinese Hot pot – or Chinese fondue – always sets a true social gathering into motion. Many bowls of meat, fish and vegetables are assembled around a big, iron wok, in which the small bites are cooked and prepared.

Inspired by these compelling flavours on their tour in China, the Amstel Quartet now presents its own musical ‘hot pot’: a diverse mix of distinct tastes, styles and composers. There is something in the hot pot for everybody.

Symphonic Saxophone.

Works by Beethoven, Wagner, Barber, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Creston.

Classical Zen

Wonderfeel is a 3-day outdoor festival for (classical) music with the casual atmosphere of a pop festival.

music:

Arvo Pärt

Philip Glass

J.S. Bach

and more

Symphonic Saxophone

Lux Aeterna

Todos los Fuegos el Fuego - Maxim Shalygin

Amstel Quartet and Keuris Quartet

“Todos los fuegos el fuego” is a musical cycle that immerses the listener for one hour in a mystical act, sparking off the imagination and opening up unknown emotional conditions.

“Todos los fuegos el fuego” for saxophone octet constitutes a mysterious and exciting link between music and literature. For the second chapter of the life-long Similar cycle (where the first one is: “Lacrimosa or 13 Magic Songs” for 7 violins) , Shalygin draws inspiration from “Todos los fuegos el fuego”, arguably the most enigmatic book by the great Cortázar. All short stories in this collection share an exit into a parallel, magic reality, sometimes near to ours, sometimes strikingly different from it. Their forms provoke peculiar musical dramaturgic solutions, whereas an abundance of pseudo-musical forms enables for the creation of a unique atmosphere, using an enlarged variety of performance techniques.

Suite’s overall structure consists of eight parts, performed by eight saxophone players — as many as there are stories in the book (and syllables in its title, which, incidentally, sounds like a saxophone phrase by itself). The saxophone is chosen for a reason, since, for all his knowledge and passion for music, jazz claimed the most of Cortázar’s attention. Jazz, and accordingly the sound of the saxophone was his muse and constant presence in many of his most well-known fiction. Moreover, the saxophone is involved in many mystical moments in music, literature, and, last but not least, cinema — a fascination I share with him as well.

Ode to Orpheus: 400 Years Sweelinck

Music by Sweelinck, Vrolijk, Fiumara

Exactly four hundred years after his death, the spirit of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is still very much alive in the Netherlands. In this memorable year, Amstel Quartet brings an ode to the ‘Prince of Musicke’.

They play his famous fantasias and vocal compositions, complemented with work by present-day Dutch composers such as Anthony Fiumara and Renske Vrolijk.