Construction of an Acoustic Space is a piece by Gabriel Paiuk for ensemble and electronics. Our recording has been released on the label Timbres. In October he will receive his doctorate from Leiden University. As part of this we play his piece at his presentation concert in Amare.
New European Ensemble performs her Horn Trio and Seraphim Canticles. Of the latter work, Auerbach says: “It requires from the musicians a burning intensity, full emotional commitment and a great sensitivity to the colors and shades of sound.”
When little Peter walks out of the garden of his house one fine day, he meets all kinds of animals and experiences an exciting adventure. New European Ensemble, organist Geerten van de Wetering and narrator Tobias Wenting bring the story to life with the music of Sergei Prokofiev!
“What appeals to me in Auerbach’s music is her reflection on loneliness – the aloneness of man. […] Her music evokes an inner search for peace and balance in me as a listener and performer.” – Emlyn Stam, artistic director New European Ensemble.
Dreammusik puts the listener in a dream-like state. “It is dark, gloomy and very beautiful,” said the cellist Ani Aznavoorian to whom Auerbach dedicated it. The Australian/Dutch composer Kate Moore produces a repetitive and powerful work, based on minimal means. Pergolesi’s touching version of Stabat Mater forms the recognizable starting point for Auerbach’s composition for violin, viola and chamber orchestra. This purely instrumental Sogno di Stabat Mater contains musical elements that span three centuries.
Programme
Lera Auerbach Trio for violin, French horn and piano (2014)
Lera Auerbach Seraphim Canticles (2011) sextet for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cello’s
Seraphim are biblical angels, terrifying, flaming and with six wings (sextet). Lera Auerbach: ‘This is a very personal work. It’s an intense prayer, perhaps an unrelenting look at despair.’ Lera Auerbach concludes her Trio for violin, horn and piano with a surprising Adagio, a masterpiece of weightlessness. She began writing to the Seraphim Canticles after her New York apartment was destroyed by fire in the fall of 2009. ‘This is a very personal work. It’s an intense prayer, perhaps an unrelenting look at despair.’
He juxtaposes extreme sonic materials in a gripping, rhythmic fashion. His works have been performed by major orchestras worldwide like the LA Philharmonic and Lucerne Symphony Orchestras, as well as featured at the BBC Proms, Verbier and Tanglewood. NEuE presents a newly commissioned work with Oboe soloist Christopher Bouwman alongside central ensemble works by Coll and composers who inspired his work.
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Coll incorporates rhythmic influences from Flamenco in his contemporary works. Tales Oblicuas was commissioned by the New European Ensemble. One of Coll’s most important sources of inspiration is Thomas Ades. In his Chamber Symphony we clearly hear the tango influences. Mask can be heard by Michel van der Aa, one of the most important Dutch composers of today.
Programme
Francisco Coll Liquid Symmetries
Michel van der Aa Mask
Francisco Coll Taleas Oblicuas
Thomas Ades Chamber Symphony
Francisco Coll Piedras
Performers
Tito Munoz conductor
Christopher Bouwman oboe solo
Composition students try out their sketches with members of the New European Ensemble.
The New European Ensemble will return again, this time with Prof. Dr. Detlef van Vuuren to take a good look at our ecological footprint. Humanity literally ‘consumes’ the earth and our impact can be seen in what is left behind. Adams’ work explores loneliness in the Mexican desert and Kate Moore investigates and voices the rise in sea levels.
This is not a casual interest: in the Anthropocene, humans have become a geological force that threatens the Earth’s ecosystem. Two works by Kate Moore can be heard: the poignant Days and Nature from 2019 and a brand new work. In there is no one, not even the wind by John Luther Adams, the music itself has become a landscape. Climate professor Detlef van Vuuren outlines the scientific context in a lecture. The New European Ensemble sounds the alarm in this program in a brilliant way.
Kate Moore uses a music machine by The Hague artist Peter van Loon in Days and Nature to underline that an ecosystem is also a precisely tuned ‘machine’. She gives voice to the growth of a tree, from a fragile trunk to a forest giant with a wide spreading canopy. there is no one, not even the wind… (2017) by John Luther Adams is a meditation on the emptiness and loneliness of the desert, but it is not difficult to listen to the intensely melancholic music as an elegy for nature.
Programme
Kate Moore Days and Nature
John Luther Adams there is no one, not even the wind
Kate Moore new work
Performers
New European Ensemble
Detlef van Vuuren lecture
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and new work by DJ Salvador in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
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New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and new work by DJ Salvador in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and new work by DJ Salvador in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
New European Ensemble plays minimalist Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and new work by DJ Salvador in which the worlds of electronic music and Steve Reich merge. Internationally acclaimed light artist Nick Verstand (known for his work for SXSW, MTV music video awards, Björk and Carré) enhances the trance-like experience of the music with his beautiful light choreography.
More info soon.