Together with our Utrecht-based partner Hifi Studio Wilbert, we are once again embarking on a unique adventure this year. While as a festival we normally do everything in our power to make live music sound at its best – with flesh-and-blood musicians, for an audience on the edge of their seats – in this series we are focusing on recorded music.
For many musicians, recording is essential: you capture how you view music at a specific moment in your artistic development. Recordings are therefore often personal statements. You could see them as voices that keep on speaking: sound portraits in which an interpretation continues to resonate, long after the last note has faded away in the hall.
Festival Director Xavier Vandamme enters into conversation with five top musicians. Together, they explore how recorded voices relate to the live moment. And we listen along to their favorite recordings, on the kind of high-end audio system you might only experience once in your lifetime.
