Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor 

Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet 

Jorrit Tamminga, live electronics 

Jorrit Tamminga (1973) 

Electronic Meditation 1 - Wim Henderickx: Water from 'Shri Yantra' (2009) / Dream 4 - Hamoutals' Dream: The First Sight from 'De Bekeerlinge' (2022) 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756- 1791) 

Andante from Symphony No. 36 in C, KV 425 'Linzer' (1783) 

Wim Henderickx (1962-2022) 

Sutra, Concert for basset clarinet and orchestra (2021) 

I. Pranayama: breath of life 

II. Dhyana: meditation 

III. Dharana: mind concentration 

IV. Samadhi: intense spiritual union 

Break 

Jorrit Tamminga (1973) 

Electronic Meditation 2 - Wim Henderickx: Akasha from 'Shri Yantra' (2009) / Prayer to Nature from 'De Bekeerlinge' (2022) 

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 

Symphony no. 2 in C, op. 61 (1846) 

• Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo 

• Scherzo: Allegro vivace 

• Adagio espressivo 

• Allegro molto vivace 

End of concert approximately 10:15 p.m. (Friday) or 4 p.m. (Sunday) 

Anja Bihlmaier - conductor 

Studies Musikhochschule Freiburg, Mozarteum Salzburg. 

Current position Chief Conductor Residentie Orkest, regular guest conductor Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights Recently she has conducted the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Symfónica de Barcelona, Basque National Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid and MDR-Sinfonieorchester. In recent seasons she also conducted several opera productions in Vienna (Volksoper), Trondheim and Malmö. Was permanently associated with the opera houses of Kassel and Hannover. 

Annelien van Wauwe - clarinet 

Training Sabine Meyer in Lübeck, with Pascal Moragues in Paris, with Alessandro Carbonare in Rome, with Wenzel Fuchs and Ralf Forster in Berlin. She took master classes with her mentor Yehuda Gilad in Los Angeles. 

Highlights Performed with numerous orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Wiener Kammerorchester, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Brussels Philharmonic and with the symphonic and philharmonic orchestras of the BBC with conductors such as Andrew Manze, Martyn Brabbins, Joshua Weilerstein, Hartmut Haenchen, Otto Tausk, Karina Canellakis and Edo de Waart. Has played on prestigious stages worldwide and is a regular guest at international music festivals. Is founder of the Brussels chamber music ensemble Carousel and the woodwind quintet Breeze. Debuts at the Residentie Orkest. 

Awards BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, won numerous international competitions such as ARD International Music Competition in Munich (2012), Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award (2018) and in 2020 an Opus Klassik Award with her debut album 'Belle époque' (Pentatone).  

Other Gives master classes and is principal professor of clarinet at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. 

Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Founded The Hague, 1904 

Current chief conductor Anja Bihlmaier 

Permanent guest conductors Richard Egarr and Jun Märkl 

Chief conductors Henri Viotta, Peter van Anrooy, Frits Schuurman, Willem van Otterloo, Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgenii Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden, Neeme Järvi, Nicholas Collon. 

To be seen at Amare, Paard, The National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw, De Doelen, TivoliVredenburg among others . 

Education Annual outreach to over 40,000 schoolchildren, adults and amateur musicians in educational projects. Part of this is The Residents, through which the orchestra brings hundreds of children from districts in The Hague into contact with classical music. 

Mozart, Henderickx and Schumann 

That music has a beneficial influence on the inner man is common knowledge. The depressed Schumann knew all about that. But yoga is also beneficial to the mind. If you bring the two together as Wim Henderickx does in Sutra , you get a very special composition. 

After the difficult period in Salzburg, life smiled on Mozart after he moved to Vienna in 1781: he married Constanze there, gave well-paid music lessons, and his concerts caught the public's attention. In the late summer of 1783, he spent three months with his father, mainly to introduce him to his brand-new wife. On the return trip to Vienna, he spent some time in Linz. There he was a guest of the Count of Thun and wrote to his father: "On Tuesday, November 4, I will give a concert here at the theater and since I do not have a single symphony with me, I will write a new one in a hurry which must be ready by then. And yes, in a few days the job was done and Symphony No. 36 "Linzer" was born. This is an elaborate work in which three of the four movements are written in the sonata form and in which voices and countermelodies constantly intermingle contrapuntally in spiritual discussions. The mixture of the intimate and the grandiose made a deep impression at its premiere, and the symphony always remained one of Mozart's personal favorites. 

Yoga 

In the second century BC, the Indian scholar and philosopher Patanjali developed the yoga sutra. Each sutra (thread) is an aphorism that together attempt to explain the principle of yoga. Belgian clarinetist Annelien van Wauwe has experienced in her career how beneficial yoga is to her musicianship, and how yoga and music can be related: "Music, like yoga, can connect performers and listeners to a higher reality and can then be experienced on a profound level. 

She asked Wim Henderickx, who died late last year, to write a concert work for basset clarinet and orchestra using yoga as a guiding principle. In his four-movement work, Henderickx started from four sutras of Patanjali, which he transformed into music. Each movement can be summarized in a key word. The first part is about breath, an essential element for players of wind instruments such as Annelien van Wauwe. The second part is about meditation, with hushed music in which the basset clarinet plays small arabesques and some woodwinds play birdsong. This is followed by a movement about concentration; it is explosive music with a virtuoso part for the soloist that requires extreme concentration. The finale has contemplation as its theme, the meta-form of concentration with ethereal sounds of rest, relaxation and perfect unification. To orchestra and soloist, Henderickx also adds electronic sounds. It allows him to create a spatial atmosphere in which the various movements are connected as a transcendent unity. 

Bach, Beethoven and Schubert 

If only poor Robert Schumann had known yoga. Perhaps then he would have suffered less from his regularly recurring nervous breakdowns and deep depressions, which eventually became fatal to him. Now it was his beloved Clara who helped him recover each time. So too in 1844 when things once again went completely wrong. In the course of recovery, Schumann carefully picked up the musical thread again and intensively studied the works of his favorite composers, Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.  

These three became his main inspiration for his new symphony, which he completed in late 1846 and has gone down in history as the Second . For example, the Scherzo would fit easily into a Beethoven symphony, although you also encounter Bach with the famous B-A-C-H motif. Even more Bach in the Adagio in which he quotes a theme from Bach's Musikalisches Opfer . Beethoven also makes another appearance with a quote from one of the songs in his cycle An die ferne Geliebte. And Schubert? Schumann was completely enraptured by his great Symphony in C, which had been rediscovered in 1838 and whose performance he had witnessed. Schumann did more or less the same in his Symphony No. 2 , in which the trumpet opens the work brilliantly with a signal-like motif and passes it again in the finale. However deep his depression might have been, with this symphony Schumann showed that for him, life could be beautiful again after all. 

Kees Wisse