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world premiere of SONGLESSNESS by Maxim SHALYGIN for organ and saxophone quartet   featuring Una Cintina - organ   'Songlessness' is a journey with the aim of an infinite melody, continuous...

world premiere of SONGLESSNESS by Maxim SHALYGIN for organ and saxophone quartet   featuring Una Cintina - organ   'Songlessness' is a journey with the aim of an infinite melody, continuous time and expansion of 'time-space'. 'Songlessness' is a monument to that which cannot exist yet is experienced internally.

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Sax avec Elan! Philippe Elan and the Amstel QuartetMusic by Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf and othersDrift away with moving French chansons and compelling stories, in the unique combination...

Sax avec Elan! Philippe Elan and the Amstel QuartetMusic by Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf and othersDrift away with moving French chansons and compelling stories, in the unique combination of chansonnier Philippe Elan and the Amstel Quartet. Elan is a household name to anyone with a passion for the French chanson. He once began his musical career playing the saxophone in the local brass band, but it soon became apparent that his true passion was to sing. The saxophone continued to play a part in his life though and so it was no coincidence that he said yes to a collaboration with the Amstel Quartet: they understand like no other what singing is. And the chansons by Brel, Aznavour and Piaf are perfectly suited to him. The press quite rightly wrote: “Philippe Elan sings these songs with such charm and passion that he effortlessly illustrates why these chansons have become classics.”

Amstel Quartet will play new compositions from student composers ages 4-18 years! A collaboration with Stichting In De Knop.

Amstel Quartet will play new compositions from student composers ages 4-18 years! A collaboration with Stichting In De Knop.

Ladies [and gentlemen] Het Amstel Quartet maakt zich sterk om de vrouwelijke componisten op de kaart te zetten, zo ook in dit concert. Wie heeft er ooit gehoord van Maddalena Casulana? Haar 16e-eeuwse...

Ladies [and gentlemen] Het Amstel Quartet maakt zich sterk om de vrouwelijke componisten op de kaart te zetten, zo ook in dit concert. Wie heeft er ooit gehoord van Maddalena Casulana? Haar 16e-eeuwse tijdgenoot Orlando di Lasso was in elk geval onder de indruk van haar werk.Ook hoor je in dit concert Jennifer Higdon. De Pulitzer prize-winnaar schreef een origineel zesdelig werk dat de uitvoerders naar eigen believen kunnen samenstellen. Verder klinkt muziek van Christian Lauba, Fernande Decruck en Marc Mellits.

Programma volgt binnnekort.

Programma volgt binnnekort.

Music with Changing Parts with Amstel Quartet and Laura Sandee & Pascal Meyer keyboardsWith Music with Changing Parts (1970), a monumental work from Philip Glass’s early period, Amstel Quartet...

Music with Changing Parts with Amstel Quartet and Laura Sandee & Pascal Meyer keyboardsWith Music with Changing Parts (1970), a monumental work from Philip Glass’s early period, Amstel Quartet returns to the meditative and grooving world of hard-core minimalism.This work, consisting of repeated melodic figures which gradually expand and contract, shares some of the rhythmic, trance-inducing aspects of the earlier Music in Similar Motion.However, through the addition of subtle vocal parts and long tones improvised at different moments in the piece by the musicians, the music acquires a different dimension and anticipates Glass's opera work of the later 1970s, such as Einstein on the Beach.

Shalygin's epic piece for saxophone octet Todos los Fuegos el Fuego Keuris Quartet + Amstel Quartet   "Devastating, breathtaking. It’s not difficult to point out the most impressive...

Shalygin's epic piece for saxophone octet Todos los Fuegos el Fuego Keuris Quartet + Amstel Quartet   "Devastating, breathtaking. It’s not difficult to point out the most impressive concert in November music. That was the fiery Todos los Fuegos el Fuego, for 8 saxophones by Maxim Shalygin.  Brabants Dagblad   'Endlessly rising clusters, pulsing tone tapestries in a minimalistic cut, poetic-melodic intermezzi, and a quasi-orthodox hymn running aground in a quarter-tone yowl. ' NRC

Music with Changing Parts with Amstel Quartet and Laura Sandee & Pascal Meyer keyboardsWith Music with Changing Parts (1970), a monumental work from Philip Glass’s early period, Amstel Quartet...

Music with Changing Parts with Amstel Quartet and Laura Sandee & Pascal Meyer keyboardsWith Music with Changing Parts (1970), a monumental work from Philip Glass’s early period, Amstel Quartet returns to the meditative and grooving world of hard-core minimalism.This work, consisting of repeated melodic figures which gradually expand and contract, shares some of the rhythmic, trance-inducing aspects of the earlier Music in Similar Motion.However, through the addition of subtle vocal parts and long tones improvised at different moments in the piece by the musicians, the music acquires a different dimension and anticipates Glass's opera work of the later 1970s, such as Einstein on the Beach.