Calendar Musix For You

The yearly returning Hortus Festival takes place of the 4 marvellous botanical gardens of The Netherlands, Leiden, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Haren. The WTC lunch concert on Aug 25^th is a ‘sneak preview’ of the closing/final Hortus concerts performed by the Hortus Ensemble.
This romantic program will be performed on historical instrumentarium 1880-1900, featuring a trio movement from Schumann and a magnificent piece by Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, the only work for this combination with wonderful melodic and harmonic abiities. It was dedicated to Chausson’s friend, the brilliant Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe who premiered it in Brussels in 1892.

Eva Stegeman, Heleen Hulst and Josje ter Haar – Violin
Örzse Adam – Viola
Job ter Haar – Violoncello
Maarten van Veen – Piano (artistic leader Hortus Festival)

More info about the Hortus Festival 2015: http://www.hortusfestival.nl

Here you can download the full WTC Lunch Concert program (PDF)

The next WTC Lunch Concert is on September 17, 2015  WTC Amsterdam

The Mehmet Polat Trio is a spiritual yet adventurous meeting of three masters of their magical instruments: oud, kora and ney. With roots in the Ottoman, ancient Anatolian, and West African music traditions, the trio welcomes you with its musical authenticity. The original compositions are colored by daring improvisations and grooves, presented in an atmosphere of chamber music. The Mehmet Polat Trio invites you to a sincere musical journey from the past to the present.

Mehmet Polat – Oud (similar construction like a lute, an ancestor of the guitar)

Sinan Arat  – Ney ?(an end-blown flute, one of the oldest musical instrument still in use)

Zoumana Diarra – Kora ?(made from calabash, best classified as ‘double-bridge-harp-lute’)

The next concert dates are August 25 and September 17, 2015    WTC Amsterdam

“Shades of Voices”
This WTC Lunch Concert features a very unusual and romantic ensemble formation, a trio comprised by Soprano, Viola and Piano. This unique combination is most renowned because of the Two Songs Op.91 by Johannes Brahms. The timbre of the viola adds an intriguing color to the soprano voice: while blending into it beautifully, giving also an interesting contrast to it. This unusual instrument combination and color inspired around 190O other composers as well. The concert program will include trio’s from Loeffler, Panseron and some folk songs by Granados and Bartók.

Young-Hee Kim – soprano

Örzse Adam – viola

Shuann Chai – piano

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“Trio d’Anches is an exciting combination of three solo wind players: Irma Kort-oboe, Hans Petra-Clarinet and Janet Morgan-Bassoon.  The reed trio combines the dark timbre of the clarinet with the brilliant qualities of the oboe and bassoon to provide the perfect medium for conversational chamber music of the 18^th, 19^t , and 20^th centuries.  French composers found the trio d’ anches particularly suited for a wide variety of styles and genres.

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Harpist and mezzo soprano Ekaterina Levental and harpist Eva Tebbe who together form Duo Bilitis give a new, fresh impulse to music written for two harps. The duo’s chamber music arrangements are strong and the combination of Levental’s singing and playing particularly noteworthy. Duo Bilitis play 20th century and contemporary music as well as their own arrangements, with a special focus on thematic concert programmes. For their WTC performance the duo have selected music from their programme Sites Auricualires, including works by Debussy, Ravel, Franck and Fiumara.

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