About Radio Russia
For this theatrical concert, the hall is transformed into a radio studio. A composer is preparing for a speech in the waiting room. He paces the room, polishes his text and in the meantime hears string quartets on the radio by Shostakovich and Gubaidulina, among others, but also interviews, speeches, commercials and other historical recordings in which Stalin, Putin, Zijlstra, Dijkhoff and many others pass by. And we see a composer who gets caught up in a passionate flood of words.
Mayke Nas created the framework around the pieces, in which the world premiere of her new string quartet ‘Etherkwartet nr. 9’ is also embedded.