1.Happy Birthday
27 September 2012
RADIO KAMER FILHARMONIE
Otto Tausk conductor
Monique Krüs soprano
Diede Brantjes D-clarinet
Nadia Wijzenbeek violin
Régis Campo Happy Birthday (2003) for soprano & orchestra (Dutch premiere)
John Adams The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra (1985)
Paul Schoenfield Vaudeville (1988) version for D-clarinet & orchestra (world premiere)
Astor Piazzolla/John Adams La Mufa–Tango (1995) & Todo Buenos Aires (1996)
Steve Mackey Eating Greens (1993)
New music and entertainment. This festive programme is all about fun, featuring exhilarating dances by Adams and Piazzolla, vibrant variety music by the American composer Paul Schoenfield, and a fantasy by Steve Mackey about the intoxicated jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Is it your birthday? Celebrate it with this ‘feel-good’ concert. Birthday boys and girls with their passports to hand will receive a free ticket for this ‘feel-good’ evening.
2.Apocalyps now!
22 December 2012
RADIO KAMER FILHARMONIE & GROOT OMROEPKOOR
Celso Antunes conductor
Lies Beijerinck ‘didge mother of Holland’ didjeridu
Humberto Ak’abal poet
Jan Wentink clairvoyant
David Lammers camera direction
Silvestre Revueltas Sensemayá, chant for the killing of a snake, based on a poem by Nicolás Guillén (1937), original version for chamber orchestra (Dutch premiere)
Peter Sculthorpe From Ubirr (1994) for strings & didjeridu (Dutch premiere)
David Dramm Disconnect (2012) for chamber orchestra & soundtrack (world premiere)
Jan Vriend Xojowem Oxlajuj Baqtun (2011) on text by Humberto Ak’abal
for choir a capella & 3 percussionists (world premiere)
Giacinto Scelsi Uaxuctum (1966) for vocal quartet, 10 percussionists, ondes Martenot, 6 double basses & choir (Dutch premiere)
The Mayan calendar predicts a catastrophe on 21 December. If the disaster does not come to pass, tonight’s programme will go ahead as planned, featuring no fewer than five new works on the theme of the end of civilisation, from the Mayans right up to the present day.
3.Around de Bondt
24 January 2013 (Thursday Evening Series)
RADIO KAMER FILHARMONIE
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Gerard Bouwhuis piano
Paul Jeukendrup live-electronics
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Orchester-Sinfonie Wq. 183 nr. 1/H 663 in D
Cornelis de Bondt Die Wahre Art (2000) for piano & orchestra
Anton Webern Sinfonie op. 21 (1927/1928) for 9 musicians
Cornelis de Bondt Das Lebewohl (2013) (world premiere)
A defining feature of the work of the Dutch composer Cornelis de Bondt is his dialogue with the past. His piano concerto Die Wahre Art refers to a famous piano method by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, as well as to Webern’s Sinfonie. The new work, currently being composed, is about saying goodbye and will be an ode to the Radio Chamber Philharmonic, which is under threat of closure.
4.Dansen met Janssen (Dancing with Janssen)
9 March 2013
RADIO KAMER FILHARMONIE
Jonathan Stockhammer conductor
Guus Janssen electronic organ
Julija Hartig violin
Sanja Maier-Hasagic dance & choreography
Mileidis Lopez Cathcart & Mosito dance
Midas Dekkers video comments
Johann Strauss II Perpetuum mobile op. 257
HK Gruber Charivari, ‘An Austrian Journal’ (1981; rev.1984/1999)
Florian Magnus Maier Operator (2009) for orchestra & soundtrack (version with dance)
Guus Janssen Ballroom Rithmix for electronic organ & orchestra (world premiere)
Giel Vleggaar Arcadia (world premiere)
John Adams Christian Zeal and Activity (1973) for ensemble & tape
Guido López Gavilán Camerata en Guaguancó (2007) (Dutch premiere)
Arturo Márquez Danzón nr. 2 (1994)
For pianist, improviser and composer Guus Janssen, new music and entertainment are naturally intertwined. The electric organ, with its built-in dance rhythms such as the tango and foxtrot, provides excellent material for an intriguing dialogue with the orchestra. Giel Vleggaar, who also has an ear for light music, has composed an overture to the dance. In a video, biologist Midas Dekkers offers his commentary on the phenomenon of dancing.