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Over recent months, 3 special programmes have been added to our offering by three new duos that we would like to bring to your attention.
f.l.t.r. Julie Phan, Iuliia Mikhailova, Lana Sophie Westendorf, Federica Stevanato, Jasperina Verheij and Willem van den Dool / photo: © Robbert Muuse

Queering Lied

Lana Sophie Westendorf, soprano
Federica Stevanato, piano

All works are by composers who faced discrimination and fall outside the standard liedrepertoire. With this programme, they open Lana Sophie Westendorf and Federica Stevanato the canon for voices that frequently remained invisible, including women and queer composers.

The strength lies not only in their shared background, but precisely in the contrasts: romance alongside chanson, humour alongside melancholy, intimacy alongside caricature. Together they form a colourful whole that playfully stretches the concept of ‘lied’.

Click here for the explanation and the programme Querying Lied >

Histoires naturelles

Julie Phan, mezzo-soprano
Julia Mikhailova, piano

The programme Histoires naturelles takes its name from Histoires naturelles by Maurice Ravel and Histoires naturelles by Camille van Lunen, thereby bringing together pieces around a single theme: animals. From the fables of Jean de La Fontaine, adapted by Isabelle Aboulker, to the musical portraits of Johannes Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninoff, and the colourful sounds of the 20th century in Rebecca Clarke, Olivier Messiaen and Samuel Barber lied.

Animals appear here as confidants, mirrors of our emotions, and sometimes as a source of humour. A lively programme in which Julie Phan and Julia Mikhailova showing how music also tells us something about ourselves through animals.

Click here for the explanation and the programme Natural Historys >

What makes us human

Jasperina Verheij, mezzo-soprano
Willem van den Dool, piano

In a time of rapid technology and growing awareness of our impact on the world, an old question arises once again: what makes us human?

This recital explores that question in liederen on meaning, nature, identity, love and mortality, ranging from Schumann's Liederkreis Op. 39 to works by Muriel Herbert and Margarete Schweikert.

But it doesn't stop at listening to Jasperina Verheij and Willen van den Dool.
What is your answer? Perhaps your thought will find a place in the music...

Click here for the explanation and the programme What makes us human >