The Musician
thu 4 oct 2018 14:00 hour
Music for Leisure
On 14 June 1989 the Amsterdam University Choir performed with the Van Gendt Wind Quintet in the English Church in Amsterdam. The played – at that moment –
new works of Dutch composers for mixed choirs and wind quintets.
Contemporaneous compositions for comparable ensembles show a varied image of the Dutch way of composing in the 1980s. Conductor Anthony Zielhorst adds that the search for a repertoire for choir and wind quintet barely resulted in more compositions than the works we are going to listen to today.
