Maxim Shalygin (photo Eduardus Lee)

Inspired by Bruckner 3 + 8

New European Ensemble + LUDWIG
Sat 14 Sep 2024 20:15 - 22:35
Sat 14 Sep 2024
20:15 - 22:35
  • Sat 14 Sep 2024
    20:15 - 22:35
    Interval 21:15
    Grote Zaal

Program

19.15 / Foyerdeck 1 / Pre-concert talk
by Dimitri van der Werf

20.15 / Grote Zaal / Main programme
Reza Namavar Elf citroenen in een bad met chloor (world premiere) after Symphony No. 3 by Anton Bruckner (New European Ensemble and Carlo Boccadoro)
Maxim Shalygin Bleeding (world premiere*) after Symphony No. 8 by Anton Bruckner (LUDWIG and Arie van Beek)

* the world premiere of Maxim Shalygin is made possible with the support of Ammodo

Credits

New European Ensemble 
LUDWIG
Carlo Boccadoro
conductor
Arie van Beek
conductor

Powerful contrasts with Namavar and zooming in on details with Shalygin

Two ensembles and two composers who are taking Bruckner’s legacy to the next level with their grand and ambitious works. Bruckner’s influence is evident in Namavar’s work, particularly in his use of sparse materials to build powerful contrasts. While Maxim Shalygin seeks to complete and extend a detail within Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. A concert that presents a formidable challenge for the New European Ensemble and LUDWIG.

Reza Namavar has a keen interest in the work of other composers. A former student of Louis Andriessen, Namavar reviewed all of Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos during the coronavirus pandemic. With the same obsessive focus, he now immerses himself in Bruckner’s Third Symphony. ‘It’s okay for music to be painful’, Ukrainian-born composer Maxim Shalygin once said. Through a monumental symphony for thirteen brass instruments, this Netherlands-based composer, lauded for his ‘mastery of creating unusual sounds’ (de Volkskrant), brings Bruckner’s music into the modern era.

Tip: also visit the public rehearsal of Shalygin's Bleeding, on September 11.

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This concert will be broadcast later by NTR on NPO Klassiek


Programme booklet (Dutch)