Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / ASKO|Schoenberg / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Spaces of Blank / Mask / Imprint
- Type CD
- Label Disquiet Media
- UPC 0608917400120
- Catalog number DQM 01
- Release date 03 September 2010
About the album
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard: conductor
Christianne Stotijn: mezzo-soprano
Asko|Schönberg
Otto Tausk: conductor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz: violin
“The recurring theme in Van der Aa is identity: of human beings, sounds, instruments, musicians, music communities.”
“And so Spaces of Blank becomes, by playing with the outward show of the opposite, everything that a ‘normal’ song cycle is not.”
“As ‘beautiful’ as it is, the music is clearly the product of an imagination that far surpasses the purely musical.”
Opusklassiek.nl interviews with Navarra Quartet & Michel van der Aa
16-12-2010
The elaborate and high standard website about classical music www.opusklassiek.nl has recently published two interviews with Challenge (related) artists: Navarra Quartet and composer Michel van der Aa both written by connaisseur Aart van der Wal.A quote from the interview with the Navarra Quartet:"No wonder really that on their latest CD (Challenge Classics CC72365) the Navarra Quartet play the three string quartets by the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) with ...
Michel van der Aa (artist)