June
Orchestra lunch concert with Jan Willem de Vriend
Orchestra lunch concert with Jan Willem de Vriend
There are usually no stage sets for orchestral concerts. But this lunchtime concert, conducted by Dutch baroque specialist Jan Willem de Vriend, is nevertheless conceived as a kind of stage set: This is because the highly idiosyncratic French composer Jean-Féry Rebel set the creation of the world to music in 1737 under the title "Les Élémens" - and in doing so, organised chaos at the beginning with qualities that are as vivid as they are avant-garde. Joseph Haydn also had a great sense for theatrical effects, which earned his famous Symphony No. 103 the nickname "Timpani Roll".