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DCV 442 – Boudewijn Tarenskeen: Orestes

DCV 442

Boudewijn Tarenskeen

Orestes

Cappella Amsterdam, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Asko Ensemble
Boudewijn Tarenskeen was born on 15 December 1952 in Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea (present-day Indonesia).
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Boudewijn Tarenskeen’s composition 'Winterreise' is a contemporary interpretation of, and commentary on, the vocal recital. This genre has roots in the 19th century, with Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise as one of the high points. ....
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In the new work Psalm 151 by Boudewijn Tarenskeen, seven Cappella Amsterdam singers together with accordion duo TOEAC render eight very different interpretations of psalms. Poets, novelists and essayists including believers, apostates and converts wrote eight very personal song texts, varying from a wordless haiku to a weighty pamphlet.
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Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam provides a stage to contemporary chamber music, offering new compositions and leading musicians, combined with current topics. Every month in the Plein Theater on Sunday afternoons you can experience this unique concept in an intimate atmosphere, where afterwards there is opportunity to talk with music lovers, connoisseurs and performers.
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Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam provides a stage to contemporary chamber music. New compositions and leading musicians, combined with current topics. Every month in the Plein Theater on Sunday afternoons you can experience this unique concept in an intimate atmosphere, where afterwards there is oppurtunity to talk with music lovers, connoisseurs and performers.
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Eight years ago, Wende Snijders and Gerard Bouwhuis premiered Tarenskeen’s version of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise in the Muziekgebouw. Now Boudewijn Tarenskeen focuses on another monument from world literature, Dantes Divina Commedia.
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Jan-Peter de Graaff

Netherlands, 1992,
"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
"De Graaffs grootste kracht schuilt in een paradox: stilstand die zindert van spanning." - Guido van Oorschot, De Volkskrant 
 
"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
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Composer

Celia Swart

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.
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Composer

Michael Fine

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.
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Maxim Shalygin

January 30, 1985

"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

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