The summer of 2019, Het Collectief was invited once again at the Saintes festival. On the programme: Gustav Mahler"s 'Ds Lied von der Erde', in a version for ensemble composed by Reinbert de Leeuw, who conducted the performance himself. This cycle of songs, which could also be labelled 'symphony', is based on 'Die chinesische Flöte' (The Chinese Flute), a series of Chinese poems about nature and life. For Mahler, this work means a point of no return: the tragic death of his four-year-old daughter and the diagnosis of his own heart disorder left the composer in a depressed mood. Accordingly, the work appears to express Mahler's personal farewell from life.
2020 will undoubtedly go down in history as that maligned year in which a tiny virus turned the world upside down. Still, this very same year a previous event was so overwhelming for each of us that it will eventually blur the corona crisis. Reinbert de Leeuw's death in mid-February ended a particularly intense nine-year collaboration between him and us. With the recording last January of Reinbert's version for ensemble of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, we helped him fulfil his last wish.
Reinbert de Leeuw (2019-2020) & Gregor Mayrhofer, conductor (2020-)
Lucile Richardot, mezzo soprano
Yves Saelens/Stefan Cifolelli, tenor
Het Collectief
Thomas Dieltjens, piano
Dirk Luijmes / Annelies Focquaert harmonium
Wibert Aerts, violin
Liesbeth Baelus / Vincent Hepp, violin
Veronika Lenartova / Paul De Clerck / Vincent Hepp, alto
Martijn Vink, cello
Jonathan Focquaert / David Jay Murray, double bass
Piet Van Bockstal / Louis Baumann, hobo & English horn
Toon Fret, flute & piccolo
Julien Hervé / Bruno Bonansea, clarinet
Nele Delafonteyne, (bass)clarinet
Pieter Nuytten, (double) bassoon
Bruce Richards / Eliz Erkalp, French horn
Tom De Cock / Miguel Sanchez Cobo, percussion
Astrid Haring, harpe
Calendar
Gregor Mayrhofer, conductor
2024.03.16 Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo (MONACO)
2022.02.27 TivoliVredenburg Utrecht (NL)
2021.03.17 KLARAFESTIVAL / BOZAR Brussels (B)
2020.09.18 Alpha - CD release
2020.09.13 Fondation Royaumont (F)
2020.09.11 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam (NL)
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor
2020.01.02 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam (NL) - CD recording
2019.12.30 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam (NL) - CD recording
2019.12.29 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam (NL) - CD recording
2019.09.14 Festival de Saintes (F)
