Living room

Amsterdam Sinfonietta en Nils Mönkemeyer
Contemporary music alternates with masterful Baroque concerts featuring violist Nils Mönkemeyer.
Thu 1 May 2025 20:00
Thu 1 May 2025
20:00
  • Thu 1 May 2025
    20:00
    Incl. garderobe en (pauze)drankje
    Muziekcentrum, Enschede
    Grote Zaal Muziekcentrum

In the middle of the living room, a cellist and a violist play back to back.

The Living Room: a familiar place that radiates warmth, a place where people come together, inspire each other, and recharge. In his work *Living Room Music*, composer John Cage instructs the performers to use household objects and architectural elements as instruments.

Magazines, cardboard, books, the floor, the wooden frame of a window... The stage becomes a living room. In the middle of this living room, a cellist and a violist play back to back *Janusgesicht* by the German composer Matthias Pintscher. The head of Janus has two faces, symbolizing ambivalence and contradiction. Contemporary music alternates with masterful Baroque concerts featuring violist Nils Mönkemeyer. 

Thursday, May 1, 2025, at the Muziekcentrum in Enschede: Living Room.

Credits

Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Candida Thompson, conductor & violin
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
 
 

Program

Vivaldi             L'Olimpiade - Overture                                              

Cage               Living Room Music                            

Pintscher        Janusgesicht                          

Locatelli          Concerto grosso in c                                                            

Vivaldi             Concert RV 495                                                         

Vivaldi             Concert RV 416                     

Geminiani       'La Folia'                                                        

Knox               Traditionals