Last weekend we closed the season in Amare quirky with Bartók's Viola Concerto arranged for cello and Mahler's heavenly Fourth Symphony . A retrospective!

On Friday the concert opened with a One Minute Symphony by composition student Thomas Wenas, for which he was inspired by the bombing of Bezuidenhout, eighty years ago. After the Hungarian sketches by Bartók, our great artist in residence Jean-Guihen Queyras performed a piece that he personally loves very much: Bartók's Viola Concerto for cello, which he himself reworked. Finally, our new chief conductor Jun Märkl conducted one of Mahler's most beloved symphonies: his Fourth . With the heavenly singing soprano Elizabeth Watts in the finale.

Enjoy these beautiful photos, taken by Simon van Boxtel.

Read the review from Art Stalk Magazine here.