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In the last 70 years many new pieces by Dutch composers have been performed at the Holland Festival. Some of these compo­sitions have been unjustly neglected since and rarely performed again. In this special festival edition a series of the festival’s forgotten gems are being performed at Splendor, as part of their regular series of contemporary chamber music. On three ­evenings, pieces by Maarten Bon, Willem Breuker, Misha Mengelberg, Jan van Vlijmen, and no less than three Andriessens are being given a much needed second performance. Each composition is being performed twice, with a short talk show in between – after which you can discover the music in all its richness. Programme 8 June Programme 15 June Programme 22 June

Tue 8.6

 

Jan van Vlijmen (1935-2004)

Serie per sei strumenti (1960)

Holland Festival 1962

 

Misha Mengelberg (1935)

Omtrent een componistenactie (1966)

Holland Festival 1966 (world premiere)

 

Talkshow: David Dramm, Wim Laman

 

Tue 15.6

 

Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)

Aubade (1951)

Holland Festival 1952 (world premiere)

 

Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996)

Hommage à Milhaud (1948)

Holland Festival 1953

 

Louis Andriessen (1939)

Cantico Job (1962)

Holland Festival 1967

 

Talkshow: David Dramm, Louis Andriessen

 

Tue 22.6

 

Willem Breuker (1944-2010)

Aah Jonge Eéj (1981)

Holland Festival 1981 (world premiere)

 

Maarten Bon (1933-2003)

Boréal II (1981)

Holland Festival 1981 (world premiere)

 

Talkshow: David Dramm, Olga Zuiderhoek, David Kweksilber

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credits

music Jurriaan Andriessen, Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker, Maarten Bon, Misha Mengelberg, Jan van Vlijmen, Hendrik Andriessen coproduction Het Weeshuis van de Nederlandse Muziek, Holland Festival, Splendor, VPRO flute Jeannette Landré oboe Dorine Schoon clarinet Jesse Faber bassoon Marieke Stordiau mezzo soprano Nora Fisher transverse flute Jeannette Landré trumpet Marc Kaptijn, Ramon Wolkenfeit, Bas Duister French horn Laurens Otto, Petra Botma-Zijlstra trombone Sebastiaan Kemner Het Ruysdael Kwartet: Gijs Kremers (viool), Joris van Rijn (viool) piano Pauline Post, Pascal Meyer saxophone David Kweksilber keyboard Pascal Meyer

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