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William Knight / Maxim Shalygin / Rudolf Escher

Thursday, 18 September 2025   |   10:30 - 24:00

William Knight / Maxim Shalygin / Rudolf Escher

A rich tradition of commissioned compositions for the Netherlands Chamber Choir.

In the nearly 90-year existence of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, many compositions by great contemporary composers have been written especially for the choir. We are adding these works to the choir repertoire of the future. During Legacy for the Future, we will sing an anthology from this. A very diverse evening with something for everyone!

Program:

Bec Plexus The Opportunist
William Knight Six Chaucerian Pilgrims
David Lang If I am Silent
Frank Martin Songs of Ariel
James MacMillan Laudi alla Vergine Maria
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc O Magnum Mysterium (uit Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël)
Caroline Shaw And the Swallow
Maxim Shalygin Oil Upon Your Shore
Rudolf Escher Le vrai visage de la paix

  • Composer(s) William Knight / Maxim Shalygin / Rudolf Escher
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    William Knight - Six Chaucerian Pilgrims 
Maxim Shalygin - Oil Upon Your Shore
    Rudolf Escher Le vrai visage de la paix
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Dijkstra chief-conductor
Date
Sep 18 2025
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Time
10:30 - 12:00
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Location
Utrecht, Silokerk
Utrecht, Silokerk
Herenstraat 36, 3512 KD Utrecht, Nizozemsko
Website https://www.silogemeente.nl/over-de-silokerk
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Six Chaucerian Pilgrims

for mixed choir
William Knight; lyrics by Geoffrey Chaucer
Year of composition:
2024
Duration:
00:09:00
Publisher's Number: 23863
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Composer

William Knight

William Knight started his musical career as a chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
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Composer

Maxim Shalygin

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

His compositions include chamber, vocal, symphonic, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for theater, ballet and film.
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Rudolf Escher

General Rudolf George Escher was born on January 8th, 1912 in Amsterdam.
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