Een programma dat, in een notendop, Nederlandse kamermuziek presenteert,
met o.a. muziek van Willem Pijper, Julius Röntgen en Henriétte Bosmans
Een beetje weemoed
Momenteel zijn er geen muziektheaterproducties
Omdat het Orion Ensemble bezig is met het ontwikkelen van een aantal nieuwe producties zijn er momenteel geen muziektheaterproducties lopende.
Het Rozeneiland
Een literair concert door Sanne Terlouw & het Orion Ensemble
In 2008 schreef Sanne Terlouw de succesvolle roman Het Rozeneiland. Dit boek is het uitgangspunt voor het literaire concert met dezelfde naam. Ook in dit literaire concert,
nieuw: Fiddler's Green
een muzikale queeste
De componisten uit dit programma zijn allen op zoek naar hun ideale wereld, hun persoonlijke Utopia, hun eigen Fiddler’s Green. Haydn vind de perfecte liefde in een Engels vrouwenhart en laat het doorklinken in de drie Londense pianotrio’s. Joachim laat zich inspireren door de eeuwig
Nieuw: Dvorák in Amerika
Antonín Dvořák, de componist die volgens zijn grote vriend Johannes Brahms “ meer ideeën in zijn hoofd had dan wij allemaal bij elkaar”, werd in 1891 naar The National Conservatory of Music te New York gelokt om de jonge
The feminine note
Is there really a difference to the ear between female and male notes? Clara Schumann thought so. Women have always composed, however, their works were published to a limited degree. Not before the last few decades did this change. Pioneers like Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann didn’t have easy lives with their creative urge.Schumann Serenade
Met je muze onder één dak wonen! Dat deed Robert Schumann vanaf 1840 met zijn geliefde Clara Wieck. En met succes, want er volgden jaren van grote productiviteit. Achter elkaar componeert hij als een bezetene, soms zelfs 16 pagina’s per dag.
A laugh amidst tears
Sjostakovitsj said about Jewish folk music the following: “…very varied music, which outwardly can be cheerful but in reality is sad. Music on the verge of being a laugh amidst tears…”Schubertiade
Franz Schubert, by no means a merry-maker, characterised his life as “agony”. But what beautiful music he has written! A concert wholly devoted to two great chambermusic works by Schubert. The programme includes his first piano-trio ( D667 ) and the piano-quintet The Trout ( D667 ) for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano. The song Die Forelle is very well-known and recurs in the quintet. But why Schubert’s interest in a floundering little fish?Land of milk and honey
Wherever is the land of milk and honey? The land every human longs for. Does it actually exist? The place described by Charles Baudelaire as a realm where life is beautiful and rich, peaceful and honest, profuse and sweet. Is it merely an imagined land, a utopia, or does it really exist? To the parents of George Gershwin and to the composers Joseph Achron and Ernest Bloch,Masters of French music
Saint-Saen’s sparkling trio opus 18 was composed in 1863. Good- natured, fantastic music by a composer who wrote a lot more than only his Carnaval des Animeaux. A composer about whom Debussy sighed “ he should stop composing by now…”,Robert and Clara Schumann, a life-time together
As appears from letters and diary fragments of the Schumann couple Clara had a deeply felt admiration for the creative power of her husband.Blue Notes
Blue notes, from Chopin to the Beatles. A sigh gives relief! A man in a melancholy mood lets many a sigh escape. A composer converts his sighs of such a moment into beautiful, melancholy music. I’ve got the blues…the jazz musician would say.Dierbaar
The literary concert Dierbaar was written by Jan Terlouw. In this he was inspired by the Suite del Ángel, passionate music by Astor Piazzolla.
Changing world
Music surrounded by reflection, a reading embedded in music. “Changing world” promises to be a special performance. 
A Spanish day and Argentine nights
A Spanish Day and Argentine nights is a story by Jan Terlouw dealing with the power of love. As a source of inspiration he used two compositions in both of which the theme is a cycle: Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas by Astor Piazzolla and Circulo by Joaquin Turina. The year with its four seasons and the day with its morning, afternoon and evening.Roots
To many composers folk-tunes and traditional dance-music are a source of inspiration. With respect to this Haydn and Martin searched for material abroad, in Hungary and Ireland. Turina and Stuchevsky, on the other hand, went to look for their own roots,Piazzolla and his angel
A programme with work of the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla. All compositions, among which the famous Adios Nonino, are performed in arrangements by José Bragato, the cellist who cooperated with Astor Piazzolla for many years.Piazzolla, his tangos and what preceded...
Who does not know the passionate music by Astor Piazzolla? In his wonderful tangos sounds life in Buenos Aires, love of American jazz, admiration for composers from Bach to Stravinsky and an undoubtedly warm-blooded temperament.Programme to order
After consultation programmes can be composed “to order” fitting the occasion a concert is organised for. Thus we made programmes for the Bartimeus Teaching Institute, for the SNV (Stimulation Fund Housing Department Dutch municipalities), for the Foundation Architecture Prize Achterhoek, for the Tilburg university, and for private persons.
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Spanish Peppers
What makes Spanish so Spanish? A big amount of temperament, a handful of flamenco chords, here and there a few irregular times, a share of colourful arabesques; and look you have come a long way. De Falla, Turina and Cassado so much loved their own folk music that, each in his own way,
Quator pour la fin du temps; visions of peace
Olvier Messiaen was a prisoner of war and composed his famous Quatuor in appallimg circumstances. It was first performed on a broken cello, a rickety piano, a violin and a clarinet for an audience of starving prisoners.Composers' Portraits
The last few years the Orion Ensemble, by request, has very successfully organised a number of composers’ days. The programme covers two parts of a day. A class-unit in which the composer is portrayed in a listening-lesson, illustrated with visual material and audio samples.Vertrouwen maar niet blind
(Dit is een voorbeeld van een programma dat op bestelling is gemaakt.)
Overal waar mensen samenwerken is vertrouwen een onmisbare voorwaarde voor succes. Maar waar blind vertrouwen heerst, ligt misbruik ervan op de loer.
Vertrouwen is een abstract begrip. Het is moeilijk er de hand op te leggen.Fantasies and Preludes
Making variations, preludes, fantasies. Many composers excelled in the art of improvising, in composing music impromptu. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven took these improvisations down and called them fantasy, theme with variations, prelude…
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