GAUDEAMUS MUSIC WEEK
door Bela Luttmer, 2006
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Paris Transatlantic Magazine, october 10, 2004
Some of the best performances during this week of world and Dutch premieres from an international line-up of young composers came from France's Ensemble Aleph, well known for their quirkiness and dedication to thorny new music. Their back-to-back concerts in the IJsbreker offered a sense of completion heard only rarely during the week – the ensemble had spent all summer working on their programs and recorded a CD, released the same day and offered (free!) to all members of the audience, complete with a lively Logbook. Interviews with the composers, trendy photos, and serious musical analysis make this an impressive souvenir, and make their effort on behalf of the eleven featured young composers well worth it.
Highlights of the Aleph show included trumpeter Lutz Mandler's simultaneous performance on two alphorns (connected to a single mouthpiece), Mayke Nas' Musique qui sent la table et la pantoufle, a good example of the humorously serious work of this up and coming Dutch composer, and the pun and a grin of Dmitri Kourliandski's Pas d'action ('action step' or 'no action' depending on how you choose to translate it).
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door Kasper Jansen, 2006
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by John Parales, 2006
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door René van Peer, 2006
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door Anthony Fiumara, 2005
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by Clarke Bustard, 2005
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by Guy Livingston, 2004
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by Helen Meany, 2004
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