Composers and Musicians
thu 3 jul 2025 12:00 hrs
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 led by his own musical practice, as a composer, as a church musician, as an organist, and as conductor of his choir Studium Chora.
Interesting observation: Gregorian as we know it is always liturgical repertoire, but its performance is also highly “spiritualised”. “I do prefer the earthly, the physical…”
