The coming concert weekend, Thursday 24 September through Sunday 27 September, offers a useful Arnhem detour for listeners drawn to classical music with a strong sense of scale. Friday brings a full symphonic programme to Musis; Saturday moves the attention to the Eusebiuskerk, where organ, trumpet and soprano meet Simeon ten Holt’s open-ended Canto Ostinato. These are adjacent nights, yet they ask for different kinds of attention: the directed momentum of a concerto and symphony, followed by music built from recurrence, duration and changing instrumental colour.[1][2][3][4]

Friday: a concerto framed by Bruckner

On Friday 25 September at 20:00, Orkest Phion comes to Musis, in the Parkzaal, with conductor Antony Hermus and violinist Simone Lamsma. The programme places Sibelius’s Violin Concerto before Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6. That pairing gives the evening a particularly clear arc: a solo violin line in close dialogue with orchestra, then a large symphonic canvas in which the ensemble itself becomes the central subject. Lamsma is the soloist named for Sibelius, while Hermus conducts the full programme; Phion also presents the date as part of its Arnhem series. An optional introduction begins at 19:00, with advance reservation required through the venue.[1][3]

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Saturday: repetition fills the Eusebiuskerk

The route continues on Saturday 26 September at 20:15 with Eusebius | Icoon 1 | Canto Ostinato in the Eusebiuskerk, presented by Musis & Stadstheater Arnhem. Soprano Claron McFadden, trumpeter Eric Vloeimans and organist Aart Bergwerff perform ten Holt’s work, an unusual lineup for a composition whose published score is conceived for one or more keyboard instruments. Donemus describes Canto Ostinato as a work whose sections contain repetition signs, leaving performers to determine how many times material returns. In this setting, that flexibility is the point: the organ supplies a natural architectural presence, while voice and trumpet introduce human breath and projection into the piece’s repeating cells.[2][4]

A compact way to hear Arnhem change rooms

Taken together, the two events trace a compact local route through orchestral density and sustained resonance. Musis offers the formal concert-hall frame on Friday, with doors at 19:00 and a listed 20:00 start. The Eusebiuskerk concert opens at 19:15 on Saturday for its 20:15 start and is scheduled to finish at 21:45. The first night has an interval; the Saturday listing gives a single expected end time, making the second evening especially suited to listeners willing to settle into one extended musical environment. Tickets, access information and timings can shift, so recheck the official Musis & Stadstheater Arnhem and Orkest Phion pages before leaving home.[1][2][3]

Sources

  1. Orkest Phion — Simone Lamsma speelt Sibelius — Musis & Stadstheater Arnhem
  2. Eusebius | Icoon 1 | Canto Ostinato — Musis & Stadstheater Arnhem
  3. Simone Lamsma speelt Sibelius — Orkest Phion
  4. Canto Ostinato: voor toetsinstrumenten, 1976–79 — Donemus