Steve Reich and John Adams originally made their breakthrough with high-energy music full of shifting near-repetitions. They are still called minimalists, even though that name is no longer applicable – just listen to Adams’s Violin Concerto with its endless melodies. So we should not attempt to classify the brilliant and versatile Mathilde Wantenaar: tomorrow she will already have outgrown that classification.
conductor André de Ridder | violin Leila Josefowicz
Wantenaar Prélude à une nuit américaine (commission work, world premiere)
Adams Violin Concerto No. 1
Adams The Chairman Dances
Reich Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (Dutch premiere)
Fri 11 Oct 2019, 20:15
De Doelen, Rotterdam
Sat 12 Oct 2019, 20:15
TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht