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24. Mai 2016 · Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, 20:15 Uhr

Georg Friedrich Händel: Feuerwerksmusik
Dimitri Schostakowitsch: Sinfonie Nr. 8 c-Moll

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest

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And then there was the third concert with Hartmut Haenchen and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra playing Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks followed by Shostakovich's 8th. Strange programming I thought, although the Handel seems to be one of Haenchen's fetish pieces, and ultimately the contrast (between the pieces and their execution) was revelatory. It was a brilliant concert of impeccable musicianship led by a master, in the wonderful acoustic, the clarity can be emphasised enough, of this special place. Outstanding.
The Handel (with full orchestra) was forward, bombastic and of course celebratory, if at once pompous and terribly British.
Ganze Rezension
http://iamaliminalbeing.blogspot.de · 11. Juni 2016
And then there was the third concert with Hartmut Haenchen and the Netherlands Philharmonic ... It was a brilliant concert of impeccable musicianship led by a master, in the wonderful acoustic, the clarity can be emphasised enough, of this special place. Outstanding.... The Shostakovich was another thing altogether, and a work I've listened to but now I realise, never heard. 1943 - thats what it's all about. 1943. The pain, the anguish, the brutality, the intolerable cruelty, the idiocy, the determination, the human spirit, the aching hopeful resolution, with just a hint of uncertainty, was delivered with an intensity that was bordering on unbearable. The audience was stunned. Mute. After the applause slowly crescendoed, and the audience rose in unison, the calls went on and on, and on, and people took to the aisles to head to the stage in acclamation.
Ganze Rezension
http://iamaliminalbeing.blogspot.de · 11. Juni 2016
... Haenchen rendering was perfectly carved, showing his kapellmeister craftsmanship, leading the orchestra and the public in a musical journey through man’s sufferance and despair in war and oppression time. The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra played superbly: powerfully brassy in those moments where the orchestral sound become almost physically painful, lyrical yet refined in the playing of the string the most subtle pianissimo. The German director perfectly mastered, in my opinion, the ambivalent character of this music, which apparently flows from the desolated despair of the vast first movement to the apparently optimistic Finale, which in Haenchen’s view seemed an open question about the possibility of salvation and survival under oppressive conditions.
The public cherished the conductor and orchestra with a standing ovation and repeated calls.
Edoardo Saccenti
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www.operaclick.com · 25. Mai 2016
...Haenchen led the orchestra in a gloriously non-filological and breathtakingly non-historically informed performance of Handel’s music: a joy and a fest for the ears for those who would like to listen to baroque music outside the mainstream dictated by the ayatollah of the performance on period (but modern by any means...) instruments. Didn’t Handel write the Music for the Royal Fireworks for a hugeous band? Thus an orchestra of Brucknerian proportion (but faithful to Handel’s orchestration in contrast with Goossens’ reworking of the Messiah, recorded by Beecham, which would be interesting to bring back to the concert hall) to which the Maarschalkerweerd’s organ of the Concertgebouw hall added an extra symphonic dimension.
Edoardo Saccenti
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www.operaclick.com · 25. Mai 2016
...Haenchen toonde geen genade: bijna ongemerkt groeide de muziek naar een striemend apocalyptische uitbarsting om daarna weer zuchtend in te krimpen. De vele micro-ongelijkheden en hoorbaar veeleisende blazerssoli droegen alleen maar bij aan een betoog vol rauwe tragiek. De headbangende, dan weer teder becommentariërende contrabassisten vervulden een glansrol.
Floris Drol
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NRC · 23. Mai 2016
Sjostakovitsj' symfonie kreeg... de best denkbare uitvoering, waarin de musici van het NedPhO werkelijk excelleerden. De bakken ellende die Sjostakovitsj in de symfonie stopte, liet een ontketende Haenchen in angstaanjagende megagolven door de zaal kolken. ... Het was machtig.
Peter van der Lint

Schostakowitschs Sinfonie bekam die beste denkbare Ausführung, in der die Musiker des Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest wirklich sich selbst übertrafen. Die unglaubliche Masse des Elends, die Schostakowitsch in dieser Sinfonie verarbeitet hat, lies ein entfesselter Haenchen in angsteinjagenden Riesenwellen durch den Saal kochen ... Es war gewaltig
Trouw · 23. Mai 2016