As long as people have composed music, both inspiration and imitation have played an important role. Even in the Middle Ages, composers wrote their most beautiful masses to folk melodies, and cross-pollination is still popular in the twenty-first century.

In Restless Feeling, the British composer David Horne links up to the gritty sound world of The Velvet Underground, Steve Reich takes his inspiration for Radio Rewrite from two songs by rock group Radiohead, and in Canzonas Americanas, his compatriot Derek Bermel makes a trip along folk music from North and South America. The Dutchman and born eclectic Joey Roukens effortlessly pairs swinging pop music with crooningly romantic harmonics. His new Violin Concerto was written expressly for Joseph Puglia, and it gives centre stage to his expressive, lyrical style of playing.

Artists

DAVID HORNE
Restless Feeling (Dutch première)
JOEY ROUKENS
Roads to Everywhere (world première) *)
DEREK BERMEL
Canzonas Americanas (Dutch première)
STEVE REICH
Radio Rewrite (Dutch première)
 
ASKO|SCHÖNBERG
conductor Clark Rundell
violin Joseph Puglia

 *) With the support of Ammodo and Fonds Podiumkunsten, composition commissioned by Asko|Schönberg and Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ.