Concertgebouw Orchestra: Polyphonic Amsterdam

Amsterdam 750

Amsterdam has been harbouring outside influences for 750 years. Amsterdam is a city of many voices, a polyphony that is echoed in its music. In Theo Verbey’s Notturno, a world of music resonates in an Amsterdam stairwell. Tania Kross sings fifty-year-old songs in which the more distressing sides of Amsterdam are not glossed over, while the rich culture of the Antilles resounds in a suite from Randal Corsen’s Katibu di shon, the first ever opera in Papiamentu.

Tsoupaki and Revueltas

Greek-born composer Calliope Tsoupaki has been living and working in Amsterdam for over 35 years and was Composer Laureate of the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021. The memory of her arrival in Amsterdam inspired her newly commissioned work, Another Day, written in response to a poignant, image-rich poem by Anneke Brassinga. Conductor Bas Wiegers concludes this programme of many voices with de exciting music of Silvestre Revualtas evoking the pre-colonial Mexican landscapes and cultures.

This concert will be enriched by surtitles and images by Frouke ten Velden.