New Year’s concert Laurenskerk
The musicians of the Laurenskerk wish you a happy new year. Like every year, you can enjoy a festive program, concluded with a New Year’s reception.
We invite you to join us in opening the new year festively during the annual New Year’s Concert in the Laurenskerk. In the atmosphere of this monumental Rotterdam icon, we bring you a sparkling program that promises warmth, inspiration and musical splendor.
Be enchanted by a varied selection of choral works, surprising musical highlights and the special acoustics of the Laurenskerk. A moment of reflection and celebration, perfect to start 2026 musically.
The first notes of the Petite messe solennelle immediately make it clear that this is no ordinary mass. “An old age sin”, is how opera composer Rossini himself called his composition. Compelling melodies and musical shock effects characterize this mass. One movement seems to come straight out of an opera, the other harks back to old contrapuntal forms.
This concert is a collaboration between: Laurens Vocaal, de Vereniging Vrienden van de Grote of Sint Laurenskerk and the Stichting Laurenskerk.
Rossini – Petite messe solennelle
Laurenscantorij
Wiecher Mandemaker – director
Dirk Luijmes – harmonium
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