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White-painted brick building with black-framed windows, stacked balconies and a tall stepped chimney against a deep blue sky — Amsterdam modernist architecture.

white facade with floor-to-ceiling grid windows wrapping around a modernist building, shot from below against a clear blue sky.

Stone sculpture of a muscular figure astride a wheel, atop a granite pillar against a vivid blue sky — detail from the Olympisch Stadion.

The iconic tower of Amsterdam’s Olympisch Stadion, with the Olympic rings visible on the mast, event signage below listing upcoming fixtures.

Chilly sunny Amsterdam around the 1928 Olympic stadium. #WhiteBlue

I loved it so much, I may go again. I hope you’ll like it too. 👍

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Some big Bach for this Sunday. #NetherlandsBachSociety #RenéJacobs
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Amsterdam canal houses at night with a houseboat moored in front.

A sunny canal in Amsterdam under a blue sky lined with houses and with houseboats on either side.

Saturday night & Sunday morning. #Ams

Wow, that was amazing. Fantastic conducting, playing, singing. A brilliant production. And what a masterpiece the work itself is! ❤️ #DiePassagierin #Weinberg

Straight off the Eurostar from London to Dutch National Opera’s opening night of Kratzer’s production of Die Passagierin. Had a few glasses of very good Spätburgunder with a friend who knows her wines, so I’m ready. 😎🕺💅🏼

Note to self: When The Netherlands Bach Society’s season subscriptions go on sale at 10am and you’re travelling to the UK, the Netherlands Bach society doesn’t move with you to the new time zone. 🙄 (No front row for the St Matthew next year, but still quite a good seat.) Oh, the hardships of life… 😉

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Lovely London on the way to…

That’s what I got from most of the reviews too. A shame though.

The production looks quite annoying. Did it get in the way? (Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?)

Bedtime after a truly wonderful dinner with old friends at #Perilla in London. (With some very good -Slovenian- wine). Life can be good. #HappyBunny

A good start to the day… #sun #coffee #Amsterdam

Makes me think of Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s brilliant book on academics and - amongst others - their emotional attachment and passion to the work. Such an important and wonderfully honestly written work. ❤️

“Go and see a physio for your frozen shoulder”, they said. They might as well have said “torturer”. Nothing wrong with a grown man climbing on top of me. On the contrary. But when he dug his elbow into my back and leaned on it with all his weight, I’m afraid the noises I made were… 😱🤣 #PAIN

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That’s a lot of stuff… #ListeningNow

…a meditation on the human condition… and a last moment of stillness before Suzuki unleashed an almighty “Lass ihn Kreuzigen!” (“Barabam” was even more terrifying), and perhaps my favourite moment came early on with Miku Yasukawa in “Blute nur” - such an amazingly pure, even voice. Heaven!

Wow, that was magic, especially being so close to the musicians. Mulroy a fantastic Evangelist, and MacLeod a dream of a Jesus. Chance very impressive (a great “Ach! Nun ist”… and “Erbarme Dich”, with a virtuoso violin solo by Cecilia Bernardini), Blažíková in an “Aus Liebe” that became…

Thank you!

Always good to be close to the action… 🤣 #HIP

Completely agree. Also, I go and see a lot of baroque music, and I think it’s simply too big a venue for it. Plus it seems to attract a lot of people who are there for the hall, who frequently film during concerts, or talk and/or are on their phone. Turns out I’m a bit puritanical in that regard… 😇

Here we go, the St Matthew Passions in the holy of holies (if you’re Dutch): Naarden. A much more intimate setting than the Concertgebouw, particularly since I’m sitting in the front row. 😎🕺 #Bach #NetherlandsBachSociety #Matthew

…Luckily I’m seeing the same St Matthew tomorrow in the church at Naarden. A much more appropriate and atmospheric venue. (Am I the only one who doesn’t really like the Concertgebouw?)

Well, half of that was fab. Great conducting, top soloists (Blažíková is ill, but her replacement was great). But… a French family with giggling teenagers meant I couldn’t get into it, so I left at the interval…

Back to the #Concertgebouw tonight for another St Matthew, this time with #NetherlandsBachSociety and Masaaki Suzuki. This will probably be a totally different experience from Pichon’s theatricalities last night. #Bach

Ah, good point. I haven’t, so I’d love to see them! 🙏🏻

Sounds like it’s worth a detour to Trafalgar Square when I’m briefly in London next week! 🙏🏻