De eeuw van Simeon ten Holt

The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomenon the man is.

'Live to be a hundred' gives us an unique inside view of the various activities that the multi-talented Ton Koopman carries out in the course of one year. We follow the famous Baroque musician on tour with his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir and see him at work as a guest conductor in Madrid and as a Musicology professor in Leiden. Moreover, we witness the preparations to a concert in France, have an up-close view of the virtuoso harpsichordist at work during a master class at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and follow him as he organizes the recording of the Haydn Organ Concertos in a church in Haarlem.

Through the approaches of a novelist, a philosopher and two historians, all interviewed in the beautiful natural and historical surroundings of Egmond, the life and work of René Descartes is deconstructed during his stay in Egmond in The Netherlands. A new and lively perspective on the life and thought of the French philosopher.