Name: Amsterdam 750
Start: 2025-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Het Concertgebouw

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Bas Wiegers

Het Concertgebouw

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Groot Omroepkoor

Singer

Maxim Februari

Voice

Katrien Baerts

Soprano

Amsterdam 750

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Public

Concert

Cantiones Sacrae

Songs Of Love And Eternity

Un Beau Baiser

The City Of Dis, Or: The Ship Of Fools

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. The more diverse the mix, the stronger the city’s character. As a city of music, Amsterdam is made up of many voices. Around 1600, people would come from far and wide to visit the composer and city organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Since 1888, the Concertgebouw and the Concertgebouw Orchestra have served as international ambassadors of the city – and of the Netherlands. 

In the twentieth century, the composer and inspiring teacher Louis Andriessen was for years a magnet for young musicians from all over the world. Many of them would go on to further enrich musical life here, such as Jeff Hamburg and the former Composer Laureate of the Netherlands Calliope Tsoupaki. Brand-new works by both have been programmed on this Saturday Matinee concert. With Andriessen, who passed away in 2021, we will board the Ship of Fools and enter the hellish City of Dis, a city of water and fire.

English

Amsterdam 750 by Sweelinck, Rudolf Escher, Andriessen, From (2025/2025), Conductor Bas Wiegers, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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