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Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin with the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Amsterdam, Concertgebouw — Main Hall

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About the Event

The Concertgebouworkest, the Groot Omroepkoor and outstanding soloists perform music by Bartók, Senk andPintscher under the baton of Matthias Pintscher in the prestigious Concertgebouw.

Composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher juxtaposes the celestial ecstacy of the Song of Songs with Bartók’s hellish nightmare, The Miraculous Mandarin. Bartók’s exciting pantomime music still sounds modern, and has inspired a new staging featuring the lifelike dancing puppets of the Duda Paiva Company.

Program

  • Pintscher, Matthias – Shir II (from 'Shirim') (Commissioned by the Concertgebouw Orchestra)
  • Pintscher, Matthias – Shir IV (from 'Shirim') (Commissioned by the Concertgebouw Orchestra)
  • Bartók, Béla – Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19. Suite
Program is subject to change

Artists

Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The 'Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra' is a symphony orchestra of international renown, whose character has been shaped by several generations of musicians, longstanding collaboration with each of the six chief conductors, and the unique acoustic properties of the Concertgebouw’s main hall.

The Orchestra has gained its unique international position with its ‘velvet’ strings, ‘golden’ brass and the exceptional and personal timbre of the woodwinds. The musicians are the guardians of the playing culture that gives the Orchestra its unique sound and flexibility. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra consists of 120 virtuosos who perform together at the highest level.

During the fifty years of Willem Mengelberg’s reign, a wide variety of composers such as Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra several times. Celebrities such as Béla Bartók, Sergey Rachmaninoff and Sergey Prokofiev performed their own works as soloists. This crucial bond with contemporary composers was continued with Bruno Maderna, Peter Schat, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono and John Adams, and is still RCO policy.

Conductor: Pintscher, Matthias
Choir: Groot Omroepkoor
Baritone: Oliemans, Thomas
Dancer: Duda Paiva Company

Address

Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein, 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Google Maps

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