Beethoven’s Prometheus and Norwegian folk music

Beethoven 250

Dates

24. September 2020 at 19:30 Few tickets left
25. September 2020 at 19:30

Beethoven 250

Fartein Valen, Stavanger konserthus

Dates

Thursday 24. September 2020 at 19:30 Few tickets left
Friday 25. September 2020 at 19:30

Program

Biber/arr. de Vriend: Sonata Jucunda for strings and basso contino
Tveitt: Concerto No. 2 for Hardanger Fiddle
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Op. 43

Contributors

Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor (Conductor-in-Residence)
Julia Lezhneva, soprano

Jan Willem de Vriend

Conductor

Jan Willem de Vriend, formerly principal conductor of the Residentie Orkest The Hague (from 2015 to 2019), is now principal guest conductor of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orchestre National de Lille and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also Artist in Residence at the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and makes regular guest appearances with such ensembles as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic.

De Vriend first established an international reputation as artistic director of the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, which he established in 1982 and led from the violin until 2015. Specialising in music of the 17th and 18th century, and applying historically informed practice on modern instruments, the consort gave new life to many rarely heard works and Gramophone magazine praised its players as “accomplished … with technical finesse and a lively feeling for characterisation”.
Åshild Breie Nyhus

Soloist