DATE AND VENUE

7 June 2012, Sent Antuan Lower Church

CONCERT INFO

REMCO JAK soprano saxophone
OLİVİER SLİEPEN alto saxophone
BAS APSWOUDE tenor saxophone
TİES MELLEMA baritone saxophone

CONCERT PRORGAMME

Note: AMSTEL QUARTET VENUE CHANGE

The Amstel Quartet concert scheduled for 7June Thursday at the garden of the Netherlands Consulate General has been moved to the St. Antuan Church in Istiklal Street due to the forecasted rain. The same tickets will be valid with the same categories but the seats will be unnumbered within each category.

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Adagio and Fugue in C minor, KV546
• Maurice Ravel
  Pavane pour une infante défunte
• Michael Torke
  May (2010)
• Johannes Brahms
  Poco Allegretto from Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op.90
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
  Fantasia Chromatica
• Arvo Pärt
  Solfeggio
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Choral Prelude, No.3, BWV659, “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland”
• Michael Nyman
  Three Movements from Quartet No.2
• Samuel Barber
  Adagio, Op. 11
• Tan Dun
  Three Sketches in the Hunan Accent

Lasts 110’ inc. interval.

The most colourful saxophone quartet in the world, Amstel Quartet is renowned for their interpretations that know no technical limitations and cross musical boundaries, adding value to everything they play. The ensemble will perform their own arrangements of the works of Mozart, Brahms, Pärt as well as the music of Nyman, Barber, and Dun at this concert, which invites the music lovers to an enthralling musical adventure.

This concert is organised within the framework of the celebrations of 400 years of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey.