Animato Kwartet
Khorshid Dadbeh tanbur
Claudio Monteverdi Darà la notte il sol
Henri Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit
Aftab Darvishi When the Sky Burns Red (premiere)
Franz Schubert String Quartet no. 15
Maryana Golovchenko vocals and traditional Ukrainian instruments
Anna Antipova violin
Katherine Ziabliuk piano
A spellbinding dialogue between live music and Sergei Parajanov’s legendary film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Viktoriia Vitrenko soprano
Shannon Ensemble violin
Orest Smovzh violin
Oksana Mukosii viola
Aleksey Shadrin cello
Borys Liatoshynsky
Violin Sonata – Five Preludes – Moon Shadows (song cycle) –
Ukrainian folk songs – Pianotrio no. 2 – Ukrainian Piano Quintet
During the concert's introduction, musicologist Igor Sukhorukov will discuss the life and work of Borys Liatoshynsky.
Lidy Blijdorp cello
Tobias Borsboom piano
César Franck
Sonate voor viool en piano (1886)
— transcriptie voor cello en piano door Jules Delsart
Nadia Boulanger
Trois Pièces (1914)
Claude Debussy
Sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1915)
Matthijs Vermeulen
Sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1918)
Ives Ensemble two flutes, two clarinets, string quartet, piano
Keren Motseri soprano
Igor Stravinsky
Trois Poésies de la Lyrique Japonaise (1912-1913)
Piet-Jan van Rossum
woord (2025)
Maurice Ravel
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913)
Aldo Clementi
Impromptu (1979)
Richard Rijnvos
Riflesso sull’aria (2025)
Kamerorkest van het Noorden
Maryana Golovchenko soprano
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Maxim Shalygin conductor
Nico de Rooij lighting design
Maxim Shalygin
To All Resurrected
Satarsa
Drop after drop
Svyatoslav Lunyov
Tristium
Vitaliy Hodziatsky
Fractured Surfaces
Traditionele Oekraïense volksliederen
> Including panel discussion about preservering cultural heritage in war zones with Hubert Smeets, Liubov Morozova and Frederick Thomson
A coproduction of Ukrainian Institute and Classical NOW!
Kamerorkest van het Noorden
Maryana Golovchenko soprano
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Maxim Shalygin conductor
Nico de Rooij lighting design
Maxim Shalygin
To All Resurrected
Satarsa
Drop after drop
Svyatoslav Lunyov
Tristium
Vitaliy Hodziatsky
Fractured Surfaces
Traditionele Oekraïense volksliederen
> Including panel discussion about preservering cultural heritage in war zones with Hubert Smeets, Liubov Morozova and Frederick Thomson
A coproduction of Ukrainian Institute and Classical NOW!
Experience the timeless fascination of the music of Maurice Ravel at our festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. Twenty passionate musicians and singers will bring his musical world to life over the course of four days, performing songs, chamber music and piano works alongside pieces by like-minded composers. Works cast for various ensembles are performed around four themes. Each concert is a carefully constructed experience in three parts, allowing us to immerse ourselves in Ravel's enchanting music.
Ravel challenged himself never to repeat himself. Each work is unique in its design. He was a Swiss watchmaker who composed with obsessive precision, and at the same time a magician who could paint with the most sensual timbres. He lifts you, the listener, far above the everyday and transports you just as easily to ancient Greece or the fairy-tale world of Mother Goose as to Madagascar or the Far East. Join us on a journey through the world of Ravel!
Passe-partout for four concerts: € 100
Shannon Lee violin
Kira van der Woerd violin
Jelmer de Moed clarinet
Ekaterina Levental mezzosoprano
Vassilis Varvaresos piano
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Frank Peters piano
Felicia van den End flute
Pieter de Koe cello
Prologue in Vienna
Maurice Ravel La valse (versie voor piano solo)
Through Greece
Darius Milhaud Suite d’après Le voyageur sans bagage
Maurice Ravel Entre cloches
Claude Debussy Syrinx
Maurice Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques – Tzigane
From Madagascar till the Far East
Maurice Ravel Chansons madécasses– Une barque sur l’océan – Shéhérazade
Spain
Maurice Ravel Pièce en forme de Habanera
Pablo de Sarasate Zapateado
Maurice Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques – Rapsodie espagnole
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Jelmer de Moed clarinet
Felicia van den End flute
Doriene Marselje harp
Hannah Strijbos viola
Pieter de Koe cello
Yulianna Bezyazychna & Mahault Ska piano duo (students Davidsbündler Academy)
Shane van Neerden & Frank Peters piano duo
Birds, fireflies and whisper of the wind
Maurice Ravel Noctuelles – Oiseaux tristes – Vallée des cloches (from Miroirs)
Olivier Messiaen Abîme d’Oiseaux
Toru Takemitsu And then I knew ’twas Wind
The enchanted garden
Maurice Ravel Ma mère l’Oye
Sofia Gubaidulina Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten
The Ocean
George Crumb Vox Balaenae
Claude Debussy / arr. Maurice Ravel Nocturnes (for two pianos)
Ekaterina Levental mezzo-soprano
Frank Peters piano
Vassilis Varvaresos piano
Shannon Lee violin
Antonii Baryshevskyi piano
Tim Brackman violin
Kira van der Woerd violin
Elisa-Karen Tavenier viola
Pieter de Koe cello
Jelmer de Moed clarinet & live-electronics
Paris by Night
Erik Satie Chansons
George Gershwin Songs uit musicals
Maurice Ravel Violin Sonata no. 2 with Blues
Nostalgia in the Salon
Ernest Chausson Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, opus 21
Ghostly Shadows
Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Pierre Boulez Dialogue de l’ombre double
Kira van der Woerd violin
Kalle de Bie cello
Peter Gijsbertsen tenor
Rik Kuppen piano
Brackman Trio
Tim Brackman violin | Kalle de Bie cello | Rik Kuppen piano
Animato Kwartet
Inga Våga Gaustad violin | Tim Brackman violin | Elisa Karen Tavenier viola | Pieter de Koe cello
An inspired dialogue
Maurice Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Ralph Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge
Inspired by Ravel
Roel van Oosten Second piano trio
Maurice Ravel Piano trio in A
A tribute to Debussy
Rebecca Clarke Prelude, allegro and pastorale
Maurice Ravel String quartet in F
Alter Ratio – vocal ensemble with 12 singers
Olga Prykhodko conductor
György Ligeti
Lux Aeterna (1966), version for 12 voices and live
electronics
Maxim Kolomiiets
Disappearing Voices (2023)
Maxim Shalygin
Sub Rosa (2023)
Alla Zagaykevych
Psalms of Falling (2023)
Peter Kerkelov
Phos-phorus (2023)
Including the powerful photo exhibition Regeneration Generation – Messages from Kharkiv by photographer Christian van der Kooy
Anna Drijver actor
Bert Luppes actor
Israel Golani lute
Antoinette Lohman baroque violin
Gijsbert Kok organ
Piet Boogaards theatre text
Chyramain van Kempen director
Bert Frijns glass objects
A theatre dialogue by Piet Boogaards, accompanied by music from the time of Spinoza by Heinrich Biber, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Constantijn Huygens, Ignazio Albertini, John Jenkins and Dietrich Buxtehude.
An opera by Nova Opera
Maxim Shalygin
Amandante
‘A rollercoaster of emotions and a triumph of musical imagination.’ The NRC gave Amandante, Maxim Shalygin's opera, a five-star review, calling him ‘one of the most interesting composers of his generation’. The newspaper also selected Amandante for its top ten music list for 2024. Korzo and Classical NOW! are now bringing this critically acclaimed opera to The Hague.
Bert den Hertog organ
Olivier Messiaen
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