Tobias Borsboom & Pamela Smits

A crossing of musical waterways

Mozart composed these 7 variations for piano on the then well-known song Willem van Nassau for the solemn inauguration of stadtholder Willem V. The best-known orchestral work by Peter van Anrooy, a fierce anti-Nazi, is the Piet Hein Rhapsodie. The well-known song De Zilvervloot is performed here for the first time in an arrangement for piano solo by Tobias.

Peter Vigh wrote his Perpetuum mobile for Tobias; an 'infinity and transformation of time and space'. Cellist Pamela Smits makes a guest appearance in Jacob ter Veldhuis' May this bliss never end in a version for piano, cello and boombox. It is a tribute to jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, based on one of his last interviews before his tragic death in 1988, by falling from a hotel window in Amsterdam. The work gives an impression of his life as an artist and drug addict.

Amsterdam as a musical melting pot in a crossing of musical waterways, played by a great pianist from Dutch soil!

Program

WA Mozart - 7 Variations in D major on the Dutch song 'Wilhelm van Nassau' KV25

H. Bosmans - 6 Preludes for piano

J. Röntgen - Neckens Polka, variations on a Swedish folk song, opus 11

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F. Liszt - Les Patineurs (The Skaters). Scherzo

J. Franssens - Winter Child

P. Vigh - Perpetuum mobile

J. ter Veldhuis - May this bliss never end for piano and cello and boombox

Performers

Tobias Borsboom - piano

Pamela Smits - cellist