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 guided by his own musical practice, as a composer, as a church musician, as an organist, and as conductor of his choir Studium Chorale.
We already heard in the previous episode that this choir performs Hans Leenders’ works exceptionally well. Today, two works by not so well-known composers: Tarik O’Regan and the Limburg composer Henri Delnooz, one of Hans Leenders’ teachers.
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
Studium Chorale
Tarik O’Regan: Acallam na Senórach
Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders, Stefan Gerritsen (guitar)
14’52” - eigen opname Studium Chorale
Henri Delnooz: Elis
Studium Chorale conducted by Eric Hermans
32’36” - CD Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I Liturgie de cristal, II Vocalise pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps
Martin Fröst, Lucas Debargue, Janine Jansen, Torleif Thedéen
7’44”
