Rita Hijmans / Hendrik Andriessen / Max Knigge / Herman Strategier/ Jurriaan Andriessen
The twelve singers of project choir VoxNL, led by Hanneke Hommes and in collaboration with Helene Egberts on piano and accordion, sing existing and own work in the interactive singing performance ‘Water Moves’, improvise and invite the audience to actively participate in the concert.
Water is the primal force behind all life on earth – especially in Holland. Water gives and takes, lashes and nourishes, shapes our landscape and determines how we live, work and recreate. On and around the water we provide for our livelihood, we love, we celebrate life and we mourn what is lost and will not return.
‘Water moves’ describes one day in the eternal water cycle: from the morning in which the mist slowly lifts from the ditches until nightfall when only the soft lapping of our rowing boat can be heard.
Composer Diederik van der Laag developed soundscapes together with the choir, in which the audience can also participate. These connect the songs with each other, creating one large stream of sounds. The singers perform music by Hendrik and Jurriaan Andriessen, Ramses Shaffy, Herman Strategier, Samuel Barber, Henk Stoeten, Rita Hijmans, Max Knigge and more. What is special is that a number of choir members wrote songs themselves, others retranslated existing pieces, and some, including the conductor, rearranged pieces.
Program:
Het water begint, Diederik van de Laag
Als ‘t licht wordt, Hendrik Andriessen
In golvend verlangen, Max Knigge
Het regent, Wout Janse
Herinnering aan Holland, Wilko Brouwers
IJs en sneeuw, Wout Janse
Allen die willen naar Island gaan, Jetse Bremer
De Valse Zeeman, Laïs
Vlakte, Ymkje de Boer
Vloei water, Damien Kehoe
Als het stormt, Ramses Shaffy, arr. Ruben Smits
Vergelijkingen, Rita Hijmans
De dronken zeeman, trad., arr. Robert Sund/Hanneke Hommes
Drie vissers, Jurriaan Andriessen
Waterwals, Ymkje de Boer
De waterlelie, Herman Strategier
Klots, Lenneke Oudkerk
De pont naar Noord, Zijlstra, arr. Ymkje de Boer
Op het water te zingen, Samuel Barber
Weg van het water, Henk Stoeten
- Composer(s) Rita Hijmans / Hendrik Andriessen / Max Knigge / Herman Strategier/ Jurriaan Andriessen
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Title(s) of the Work(s)
Als ‘t licht wordt, Hendrik Andriessen
In golvend verlangen, Max Knigge
Vergelijkingen, Rita Hijmans
Drie vissers, Jurriaan Andriessen
De waterlelie, Herman Strategier - Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Choir VoxNL, conductor Hanneke Hommes, Helene Egberts piano & accordion
