Frans Brüggen conducted the Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw in a Mozart/Haydn program, at Rotterdam Doelen.
Pictures are not my best, but give a good visual impression from a place well fit for the audio part !!
Performed was (a.o) the Theatrical Music Egmont, opus 84. Normally only te ouverture is performed. Soprano was the Australian Rebecca Nash:
Rebecca Nash made her debut with Opera Australia singing Countess Almaviva and her debut with Scottish Opera as Cio-Cio San. Last season she made her debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in both Jenufa under Bernard Haitink and Daphne under Stefan Soltez and her debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven's Egmont under Frans Bruggen. This season she makes her debut at the BBC Proms ("Elijah" under Kurt Masur), sings Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Japan under Frans Bruggen and returned to the Royal Opera for Elektra under Semyon Bychkov and to the BBC Proms for Elektra under Donald Runnicles. She will tour Spain and the Netherlands with Frans Bruggen in Beethoven's Egmont.
This is the score for Klärchens Lied 'Freudvoll und leidvoll'
In this lied there is a sentence, famous now: 'Himmelhoch jauchzend, zum Tode betrübt'
Goethes text. Handwriting is that of van Beethoven
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Caricature of maestro Frans Brüggen. It's figured in a brochure of Doelen, and I think it's no good. This is more the way you depict politicians, you don't agree with (lol) Look at the next picture to compare it with the real Frans Brüggen. The mere fact that the man has a back ailment and can't walk and stand easily (sits while conducting) is no reaso for exaggerating this in a caricature !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Photo made of Frans Brüggen by Marco Borggreve, The artists photographer in Holland. He started the same way as I did, going backstage and making pics.
http://www.gkf-fotografen.nl/defotograaf/view_album.php?set_albumName=albuo54
many people he's photographed I did too