Louis Andriessen & Martijn Padding

Friday, 7 March 2025   |   20:00 - 22:30

Louis Andriessen & Martijn Padding

On July 1, 2021, Louis Andriessen, one of the greatest composers in the Netherlands, passed away. Ensemble I SOLISTI pays tribute to the master. Not only with his own work, but also as a pedagogue, he had an influence on international musical life that could hardly be overestimated. There is music by Andriessen himself, but also by Martijn Padding – student, colleague and, above all, best friend of Andriessen. He composed an in memoriam: Two trumpets descending*. This creates a layered image of the man who would have turned 85 this year.

Andriessen’s activist Workers Union (1975) has lost none of its power: the pounding rhythms seem to hammer home the poor working conditions in factories. Freer, but no less urgent, sounds M is for Man, Mozart, Music (1991), written as a tribute to Mozart on the bicentenary of his death. Andriessen’s music is driven by crackling saxes and brass instruments. The accompanying film by Peter Greenaway, with whom Andriessen also made the operas Rosa and Writing to Vermeer, is a hilarious postmodern collage.

Program:

  • L. Andriessen, Workers Union
  • M. Padding, Two trumpets descending
  • L. Andriessen, M is for Man, Mozart, Music met film van Peter Greenaway
  • Composer(s) Louis Andriessen & Martijn Padding
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    L. Andriessen, Workers Union
    M. Padding,Two trumpets descending

  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra I SOLISTI, Martijn Dendievel conductor

Date

Mar 07 2025
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Time

20:00 - 22:30

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Location

Antwerpen, AMUZ, Belgium
Antwerpen, AMUZ, Belgium
Kammenstraat 81, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Website
https://amuz.be/en/

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