This event has been ended!
Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten - concert
On the Amsterdam canals - Concert
Event by: Vriendenconcerten, Pamela Smits
Location: Walloon Church, Walenpleintje 159, Amsterdam - Amsterdam-Centrum
Tickets: Get tickets
Concerts
About event
A nod to the annual Prinsengracht concerts, but then in the Walloon church, located on the canal of the Oudezijds Achterburgwal! Pianist Tobias Borsboom brings unknown compositions to life with a touch of Dutch glory.
still largely unknown and rarely performed is the piano music of Julius Röntgen, one of the most important Dutch composers in romanticism. His variation work Neckens Polka is one of the most beautiful that he wrote for the piano. The young wonderful Mozart composed his seven variations for piano on the then popular song Willem van Nassau, on the occasion of the inauguration of Stadholder Willem V. Also the world's first "pop star", Franz Liszt, the Netherlands visited several times. One of his success works that he played here, the Scherzo on themes of Meyerbeer, entitled Les Patineurs (the skaters), is inspired by the typical Dutch scene of skaters on the canals.
After the break, contemporary composers also sound. The Amsterdam composer Joep Franssens, with his musing and atmospheric winter Child. Peter Vigh, studied composition in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter Tobias wrote the virtuoso perpetuum Mobile: an "infinity and transformation of time and space". Celliste Pamela Smits makes a guest performance in Jacob ter Veldhuis "May this Bliss Never End in a version for piano and cello and Boombox. This work is a tribute to jazz trumpet player Chet Baker, based on one of his last interviews, for his tragic death in 1988 by falling out of a hotel window in Amsterdam. The work gives an impression of his life as an artist and drug addict.
Program "On the Amsterdam canals"
W.A. Mozart 7 variations in D Groot on the Dutch song 'Wilhelm van Nassau' kv25
Henriëtte Bosmans 6 Preludes for piano
Julius Röntgen Necka, variations on a Swedish folk song, Opus
Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze -
Joep Fransens Winter Child
Peter Vigh perpetuum Mobile
Jacob ter Veldhuis May this Bliss Never End
For piano and cello and Boombox
still largely unknown and rarely performed is the piano music of Julius Röntgen, one of the most important Dutch composers in romanticism. His variation work Neckens Polka is one of the most beautiful that he wrote for the piano. The young wonderful Mozart composed his seven variations for piano on the then popular song Willem van Nassau, on the occasion of the inauguration of Stadholder Willem V. Also the world's first "pop star", Franz Liszt, the Netherlands visited several times. One of his success works that he played here, the Scherzo on themes of Meyerbeer, entitled Les Patineurs (the skaters), is inspired by the typical Dutch scene of skaters on the canals.
After the break, contemporary composers also sound. The Amsterdam composer Joep Franssens, with his musing and atmospheric winter Child. Peter Vigh, studied composition in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter Tobias wrote the virtuoso perpetuum Mobile: an "infinity and transformation of time and space". Celliste Pamela Smits makes a guest performance in Jacob ter Veldhuis "May this Bliss Never End in a version for piano and cello and Boombox. This work is a tribute to jazz trumpet player Chet Baker, based on one of his last interviews, for his tragic death in 1988 by falling out of a hotel window in Amsterdam. The work gives an impression of his life as an artist and drug addict.
Program "On the Amsterdam canals"
W.A. Mozart 7 variations in D Groot on the Dutch song 'Wilhelm van Nassau' kv25
Henriëtte Bosmans 6 Preludes for piano
Julius Röntgen Necka, variations on a Swedish folk song, Opus
Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze - Pauze -
Joep Fransens Winter Child
Peter Vigh perpetuum Mobile
Jacob ter Veldhuis May this Bliss Never End
For piano and cello and Boombox