The wind quintet of Ensemble Zuiderwind will go ‘Southwards!’ for this program with pianist Bert Koch. To the Paris of the late nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century. Where two successive world exhibitions set the optimistic tone of a glorious future. A future in which French composed music would also share: colourful, humorous, light and yet firm, smooth and above all full of France’s unparalleled ‘joie de vivre’. Music that sounds like glasses in Le Dôme, La Coupole and La Rotonde, the establishments where the top artists used to gather. Wonderful music by Ibert, Milhaud, Debussy, Poulenc and Roussel. With a glass afterwards to toast to our own future.

PROGRAM

Debussy
Petite Suite
Ibert
Trois Pièces Brèves
Milhaud
La cheminée du roi René
Poulenc
Sextuor pour piano et quintette à vent, opus 100
Roussel
Divertissement

Source : Theater aan het Vrijthof Website