On 27 November 2014 Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Candida Thompson (principal player and artistic director) perform lichtende drift for string orchestra (2014), new work by Rozalie Hirs, commissioned by Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
In her youth Rozalie developed an early affection for the works by Béla Bartók, starting with the works for piano solo, soon to be followed by the works for strings: his string quartets, duos for two violins, violin concertos, Divertimento for strings, and Music for Strings, Celesta and Percussion.
Hirs’s lichtende drift for string orchestra (2014) is composed in reply to Bartók’s Divertimento. Further compositions in the program include Fugue on the name B.A.C.H. by Robert Schumann and Concerto Funebre by Karl Amadeus Hartmann. The soloist of the evening is violinist Isabelle Faust.
Date: 2014-11-27
Time: 20:15
Location: Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Piet Heinkade 5, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performers: Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Candida Thompson (principal player)
World premiere of a new composition commissioned by Amsterdam Sinfonietta
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