What is the podcast about?
In a good conversation with moderator Maartje Stokkers, musicologist Francis Maes and chief conductor Daniel Reuss illuminate Schnittke’s creative spirit and discuss Schnittke’s compositional styles. Step by step, they go through Schnittkes Psalms of Repentance.
“There is a beautiful manuscript of Stikhi Pokayanniye by Alfred Schnittke himself. There are considerable differences between this manuscript and Belaieff’s edition. There are almost no dynamic markings in the manuscript, there are no tempi indicated, there is no phrasing. And sometimes, different notes are simply written.” – Daniel Reuss
In these podcast episodes, you’ll also hear how Daniel deals with this freedom (or obstacle).
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Francis Maes is professor of musicology at Ghent University. He previously published A History of Russian Music from Glinka to Shostakovich and A History of European Music to 1900.
Maartje Stokkers is a Dutch musicologist and radio host. She studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. She also took part of the music history component at the University of Perugia. During her studies, she did an internship at the AVRO’s Internet art and classical editorial department.
From 2005 to 2018, Maartje Stokkers was a regular presenter on NPO Radio 4. Among other programs, she presented The Friday of Vredenburg, The Sunday Afternoon Concert and the radio broadcast of the Prinsengracht Concert.
Daniel Reuss has been artistic director and chief conductor of Cappella Amsterdam, in which he had been singing for many years when he acquired that position. As a guest conductor, Daniel Reuss makes music with companies throughout Europe, including the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MusikFabrik, Vocal Consort Berlin, Collegium Vocale Gent and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has been chief conductor of the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin (2003-2006) and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (2008-2013), among others, and has been permanent guest conductor of the Ensemble Vocal Lausanne since June 2015.
