After a year’s absence, the Residentie Orkest is back in the Nieuwe Kerk.
In February, April and May, the orchestra will give three magnificent
chamber music concerts. From inspiring poetry to Schubert’s heavenly string
quintet and classics by Haydn and Beethoven by top violinist Shunske Sato
(pictured).
Atmospheric, subdued, intimate. A concert in The Hague’s Nieuwe Kerk will
stay with you forever. The phenomenal acoustics add an extra dimension to
the Residentie Orkest’s chamber music concerts. Join us on an uninterrupted
journey through beautiful musical works in a historical setting. Each
concert has a special musical theme.
Wed Feb 26, 8.15pm: LETTERS, POEMS AND LOVE
Enter the world of Romanticism, where music and poetry go hand in hand.
Schubert drew inspiration from Goethe’s poems for the Mignon Lieder, adapted
for soprano and string quartet by Aribert Reimann. One of Dvořák’s first
compositions was a song cycle based on poems by a Czech compatriot, in which
he expressed his unfulfilled romantic feelings for an actress. He later
adapted this music into the celestial string quartet Cypresses, parts of
which will be performed. The programme also includes Max Reger’s Serenade
and Röntgen’s Piano Quintet No 2. The latter is a wonderfully romantic work.
Musicians: Irene Piazza (violin), Sergiy Starzhynskiy (violin), Jan Buizer
(viola), Tom van Lent (cello), Rieneke Brink (flute), Klaartje van Veldhoven
(soprano) and Tobias Bosboom (piano).
Wed Apr 9, 8.15pm: SCHUBERT’S HEAVENLY STRING QUINTET
In the late summer of 1828, just two months before his untimely death,
Schubert completed one of his most beautiful works: the monumental and
heavenly String Quintet. It is music of passionate intensity, of romantic
sadness, but fortunately also of spontaneous gaiety. A very personal
composition that looks back on his life and the creative and spiritual peak
of Schubert’s work. Music that definitely cuts through the marrow. The
programme also includes movements from Bach’s brilliant Kunst der Fuge.
Musicians: Gerard Spronk (violin), Francisca Portugal (violin), Josefien
Dumortier (viola), Iedje van Wees (cello) and Sven Weyens (cello).
Sat 31 May, 8.15pm: VIENNESE CLASSICS WITH SHUNSKE SATO
A little composer used to head to Vienna. The place to be for musicians.
Music history has been written there for centuries. By Haydn, for instance,
who spent a significant part of his musical life there. His dramatic cantata
Arianna a Naxos even opened the doors to London. Cherubini came to Vienna by
invitation, met Haydn and Beethoven and was commissioned for an opera.
Although enthusiastically received, Faniska did not become permanent
fixture, although the overture is delightfully sparkling and energetic.
Finally, the versatile Shunske Sato brings Beethoven’s buoyant Symphony No.
2. Compelling, grand and full of surprises.
Musicians: Shunske Sato (violin and conducting), Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano) and an ensemble of the Residentie Orkest.
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