Van Gogh in Me - Asia tour

With Van Gogh in Me, the Netherlands Chamber Choir presents a spectacular concert experience in which art works by Vincent Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt come alive to music by the great Romantic composers like Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and Mahler, and respond to emotions of both the singers and the audience. The choir creates this immersive audiovisual experience in collaboration with the Italian studio fuse*, connecting visuals and sound to emotions of musicians and audience, creating an overwhelming and unforgettable performance in which music becomes visible, and the art becomes audible.  
  
The production started touring in the Netherlands in November 2022 for the first time, with international tours being planned for later concert seasons. The world premiere took place in Vienna on 28 June 2022, as part of a state visit of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to Austria. The tour was linked to the release of a cd-album under the label Alpha Classics, containing the repertoire of the Van Gogh in Me production. One of the tracks, Satie’s Gymnopédie no. 1 in an arrangement for choir, was released as digital single (including visuals from the performance) on June 17 2022.  

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)    

Calme des nuits    

Les fleurs et les arbres          


Claude Debussy (1862-1918)    

Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans    

Les Angélus (arr. Clytus Gottwald, op tekst van Grégoire Le Roy)    

Des pas sur la neige (arr. Clytus Gottwald, op teksten van Rainer Maria Rilke en Stéphane Mallarmé)          


Erik Satie (1866-1925)    

Gymnopédie nr. 1 (arr. William Knight naar idee van Tido Visser, op tekst van J.P. Contamine de Latour)          


Alma Mahler (1879-1964)    

Die stille Stadt (uit: Drei frühe Lieder, arr. Clytus Gottwald, op tekst van Richard Dehmel)    

Laue Sommernacht (uit: Drei frühe Lieder, arr. Clytus Gottwald op tekst van Gustav Falke)          


Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)    

Im Abendrot (arr. Clytus Gottwald van Adagietto uit Symfonie nr. 5, op tekst van Joseph von Eichendorff)          


Richard Strauss (1864-1949)    

Traumlicht                      

Gustav Mahler    
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. Clytus Gottwald, op tekst van Friedrich Rückert)          


Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)    

Dreimal tausend Jahre    

Friede auf Erden