2009-10-11

31-tone music at ‘t IJ

Organist Ere Lievonen, alongside Joop van Goozen the new player of the Fokker organ, will perform fascinating 31-tone music during this concert. In addition to new works on the Fokker organ, including the composition Forma by Danny de Graan, pieces by historical masters of meantone tuning will be presented, among them a work composed by the renowned Amsterdammer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Furthermore, compositions from the instrument’s historical repertoire will be featured, including works by Henk Badings and Ivan Wyschnegradsky.

Programme

Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972) – Preludium chromaticum (1948)

Henk Badings (1907–1987) – from: Suite van kleine stukken (1954)
– I: Preludio
– II: Arietta
– III: Recitativo

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) – from: Fiori musicali (1635)
– Toccata avanti il Recercar
– Recercar cromatico post il Credo

Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893–1979) – Étude ultrachromatique op. 42 (1959)

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) – from: Fiori musicali (1635)
– Toccata per l’Elevatione

Jan van Dijk (1918) – from: Musica per organo trentunisono II:
7 pezzi per organo trentunisono solo op. 245 (1957)
– II: Intrada e Fuga
– VII: Epilogue

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) – Fantasia Chromatica

Danny de Graan (1973) – Forma (2009)

Support

This concert is made possible with support from: the Dutch Performing Arts Fund+, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the SNS REAAL Fund, and the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ.

Fokker organ concert

Sunday 11 October 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Admission fee €13.00 (€10.50 reduced price)

Small Hall, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam

Performers

Ere Lievonen, Fokker organ