thu 3 jul 2025 12:00 hrs
Hans Leenders is organ player, choir conductor and composer – and city composer of Maastricht too. His choice of ‘desert island discs’ for this episode is led by his own musical practice, as a composer, as a church musician, as an organist, and as conductor of his choir Studium Chora.
Interesting observation: Gregorian as we know it is always liturgical repertoire, but its performance is also highly “spiritualised”. “I do prefer the earthly, the physical…”
If you ask the music makers, composers and musicians in our country, what music should everyone really have heard at least once? The entire interview with Hans Leenders is available in the podcast Music Makers.
Picture: (c) Simon van Boxtel on behalf of New Music Now
Playlist
- own recording
Hans Leenders: Signum magnum
Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders
3’07” - CD École de Notre Dame de Paris: Mass for the Nativity of the Virgin
Anonymous: Communio – Beata Viscera Marie Virginis
Ensemble Organum conducted by Marcel Pérès
2’52” - CD École de Notre Dame de Paris: Mass for the Nativity of the Virgin
Anonymous: Conduit à quatre voix ‘Deus misertus hominis’
Ensemble Organum conducted by Marcel Pérès
4’12” - own recording
Gerard Beljon: Me miseram
Rianne Wilbers (soprano), Paloma Lázaro Arteaga (alt), Raphaela Danksagmueller (kaval, fujara), Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders
20’05” - own recording
Geerten Liefting: improvisation
Geerten Liefting, organ Markerk Leiden
7’06” - CD Utopia Triumphans – The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance
Johannes Ockeghem: Deo Gratias – 36-part canon
Huelgas Ensemble conducted by Paul van Nevel
6’02” - CD De herhaling is nooit eentonig
Hans Leenders, lyrics Bert Voeten: Bretonse namiddag / De vogels / Jeugd
Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders
8’22”
