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Category: Amsterdam

• Amsterdam Culture Europe History Identity London Memory Netherlands Theatre Truth

  Amsterdam at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

  Amsterdam Orange Tree Theatre, 5th October 2019 The UK premiere of Israeli playwright Maya Arad Yasur’s “strikingly original, audacious thriller”. Hmm. Striking yes. Original. I guess so. Audacious thriller. Not so sure. It is a fascinating story with a powerful message but its formal construction serves to distract and obfuscate…

  November 15, 2019
• Amsterdam art Culture Drawing Exhibition London Nature Painting Prints

  Van Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain review ****

  Van Gogh and Britain Tate Modern, 30th July 2019 Took me way ages to find the time to see this. And even longer to comment on it. Really what is the point. Especially as even late afternoon on a weekday it was a bun fight with bugger all chance to…

  September 10, 2019
• Amsterdam Culture Netherlands Russia Theatre

  The Cherry Orchard at the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam review *****

  The Cherry Orchard (De Kersentuin) Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Staddschouwburg Rabozaal, 20th June 2019 One of the world’s greatest theatre makers in Simon McBurney directing. Actors from probably the world’s greatest theatre company in the form of the ITA (previously Toneelgroep). An adaptation from Robert Icke no less with his Dutch…

  August 10, 2019
• Amsterdam Animation art Culture Exhibition History Ideology Installation Politics South Africa Soviet Union Technology

  William Kentridge retrospective at the Eye Film Museum Amsterdam review *****

  William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projections, O Sentimental Machine Eye Film Museum, 20th June 2019 The Tourist can’t really be doing with blockbuster art exhibitions in London any more. Too lazy to take the early morning members’ option and too impatient to put up with the crowds of selfie…

  August 4, 2019
• Amsterdam Architecture Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture Czech Suite Symphony

  Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin)  Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, 19th June 2019 Detlev Glanert – Weites Land Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 Bedrich Smetana – Vysehrad, De Moldau and Sárka from Má vlast  There’s a clue in the title. The Tourist finds himself…

  August 1, 2019
• Amsterdam Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Mozart and Beethoven chamber music for winds at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Alexander Melnikov (piano), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn) Wigmore Hall, 31st March 2019 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio in B minor K540 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K452 Ludwig van Beethoven – Horn Sonata in F Op.…

  April 14, 2019
• Amsterdam Classics Culture Family Feminism Gender Greece London Theatre

  Medea at the Barbican Theatre review *****

  Medea International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican Theatre, 6th March 2019 Now you can’t always be sure that wunderkind director Ivo van Hove delivers the goods when he comes to the UK, which is now surprisingly often with All About Eve his latest offering. When it comes to the company where he…

  March 26, 2019
• Amsterdam Baroque Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Renaissance

  Lucie Horsch and the AAM at Milton Court review *****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (harpsichord, director), Lucie Horsch (recorder)  Milton Court Concert Hall, 24th February 2019 Antonio Vivaldi – Flautino Concerto in C major, RV443 (arr in G major for recorder) JS Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No 3 in D major BW V1054 Giuseppe Sammartini – Recorder Concerto…

  March 15, 2019
• Amsterdam art Culture Exhibition Prints TV

  Van Gogh and Japan exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum review ****

  Van Gogh and Japan Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, 18th May 2018 There is an episode of the recent excellent BBC series Civilisations, on the history of art, where the presenter Simon Schama explores Japanese woodblock prints from the C!8 and C19 and shows their impact on the Western art canon.…

  May 31, 2018
• Amsterdam Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture

  Christoph Sietzen and the Wave Quartet at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Christoph Sietzen, Wave Quartet (Bogdan Bacanu, Vladi Petrov, Emiko Uchiyama, Christoph Sietzen) Het Concert-Gebouw, Recital Hall, 16th May 2018 Emmanuel Séjourné – Attraction for marimba, vibraphone and tape Iannis Xenakis – Part B (from ‘Rebonds’) for percussion J.S. Bach/Brahms – Chaconne (from Second Partita in D, BWV 1004) (arr. B.…

  May 28, 2018