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Michael TORKE Adjustable Wrench
Louis ANDRIESSEN Dances
Martijn PADDING Slow March to Moscow
Steve MARTLAND Dance works
Otto Tausk conductor
Sara Macliver soprano
Andriessen didn’t follow the rules. He rewrote them in all caps and turned up the volume.
Louis Andriessen was a maverick, provocateur, and the uncompromising godfather of European minimalism. In the 1970s and '80s, he shattered the boundaries between classical, jazz, and rock with a fiercely political edge and a defiantly amplified sound. Rejecting the lush traditions of the past, he championed stripped-back textures, pounding rhythms, and an ensemble of brass, electric guitars, and saxophones, more garage band than orchestra. Andriessen didn’t just compose; he confronted.
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