A Flat with a Thousand Windows (Part 5)

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In the most intimate performance of the six, a heavily pregnant woman speaks to her baby about the outside world that awaits him. Boris Bezemer continuously touches on Haydn’s music in various ways, creating—both acoustically and with electronics—a sound world like amniotic fluid in which you can float and drift.

Step into A Block of Flats with a Thousand Windows, a six-part theatrical miniseries in which the walls vibrate with music, imagination, and human stories. The inventive composer and creative mind Primo Ish-Hurwitz (2001) breathes new life into Joseph Haydn’s six iconic Op. 20 string quartets—by connecting them with brand-new compositions by six leading Dutch composers of today. This is achieved in part through the sampling of old and new material—unusual in classical music, but common practice in genres such as hip-hop.

The Chaos String Quartet, together with actress Ariane Schluter and writer Joke van Leeuwen, weaves a compelling world in which past and present merge. Across six episodes, a timeless story unfolds, where sound and language, performance and emotion, meet and reinforce one another.