Listen in Muziekkapel Ransdorp to the four flutists of BEAU4! BEAU4 consists for 50 percent of flutists from the Czech Republic who have been living in the Netherlands for quite a while. Their connection with their homeland is evident by their choice of music. Today on the program: works of the great Czechian composers Antonín Reicha, Bedrich Smetana, and Antonín Dvorak.
Like Elisah and Eliška, Dvorak lived abroad for a long time. He went to the United States where he wrote maybe one of his most wonderful chamber music works, the American string quartet. More American influences can be heard in the work of young American composers Derek Charke and Nicole Chamberlain. The modern effects in these works are wonderful by comparison with the classical esprit of their Czechian colleagues. The cooperation between BEAU4 and Nicole Chamberlain brings everyone closer to the music.