Composer, organist and conductor Hans Leenders is city composer of Maastricht. In this podcast, he talks about his main sources of inspiration, the music that has accompanied him his whole life, and his plans for the ‘Day of the Composer’ (21 June 2025).
A series of podcasts with portraits of makers, composers and musicians in the Netherlands, based on their ‘desert island discs’ – the pieces of music they want the whole world to hear, and which play an important role in their work and lives.
In addition to this podcast, you can listen to the complementary radio programme Music Makers, which airs every Thursday at 12.00, to hear the interviewed composers’ favourite music.
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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
Anoniem: 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
Anoniem: 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, text Bert Voeten: Bretonse namiddag / De vogels / Jeugd
Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders
8’22” - own recording
Tarik O’Regan: Acallam na Senórach
Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders, Stefan Gerritsen (guitar)
14’52” - 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”