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Editorial

The Concertzender in May: springtime in music, a new ‘carefree' programme, World of Jazz is launched and two times an in memoriam

In May, a long-awaited egg finally hatched at the Concertzender.

It promises to be an exciting and fun-filled first month for the World of Jazz platform, which went live after two years of incubation! The launch was successful and expectations are high. More about this later in the newsletter.

As usual, the Concertzender channel itself will also continue to broadcast new programmes in every genre in the coming month.

Sunday May 12

Theme: Classical

Aafje Heynis, born 100 years ago

This month she would have turned 100: Aafje Heynis, one of the Netherlands' greatest opera singers.

Many recordings by Aafje Heynis have been preserved. Moreover, CDs featuring her voice are still being released long after her death in 2015. Aafje Heynis was born on May 2 1924 in Krommenie in West Friesland. She enjoyed an international career, but remained firmly rooted in Dutch soil.

The Concertzender will celebrate the centenary of her birth with a broadcast in which her contralto voice can again be heard on Dutch radio. Although she became widely known as an oratorio singer, her repertoire was much broader. A selection from this repertoire will be featured in the programme Thou singest ye carol on Sunday May 12th.

Listen: Thou singest ye carol, Sunday May 12th, 11:00 - 12:00 CET.

Monday May 6, Wednesday May 8 and on demand

Theme: Contemporary Music

In memoriam: Peter Eötvös

On March 24, the Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös died at the age of eighty.

Eötvös was one of the most prominent and influential musicians of our time. His is comparable with his famous compatriots Ligeti and Kurtág, all composers from multi-ethnic Transylvania.

On Wednesday, May 8, the programme The Last Century, will focus for a second time on the achievements of Peter Eötvös as a conductor. This time he conducts the Frankfurt hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Asko Ensemble. Part 1 was broadcast on April 10.

Erik Voermans looks at the work of Eötvös as a composer in the programme Contemporary Music on May 6 at 19:00 CET. In this programme you can listen to Eötvös' first opera Harakiri (1973), Two Monologues (1998) and Multiversum (2017).

Listen: The Last Century, Wednesday April 10th, 19:00 - 20:00 CET.

Listen: Contemporary Music, Monday May 6th, 19:00 - 20:00 CET.

Listen: The Last Century, Wednesday May 8th, 19:00 - 20:00 CET.

24/7

Theme: Jazz | World Music

World of Jazz is launched

On April 30 - International Jazz Day - we launched our new channel World of Jazz. Finally there is a Dutch radio station where jazz and world music can be heard 24/7.

We are very proud that we have managed to fulfil the wishes of so many music lovers. World of Jazz provides us with a new platform where we can present the full range of jazz and world music.

World of Jazz promises to take listeners outside of their bubble. The first broadcast was a special episode of inJazz Radio by Co de Kloet. The programme was completely in line with the mission of the new channel and featured live music by jazz band Narrative and fado singer Magda Mendes.

Tune in at worldofjazz.nl

Listen: inJazz Radio, Tuesday April 30th, 10:00 - 11:00 CET.

Bi-weekly on Saturday (from April 27)

Theme: Classical

Introducing our new ‘carefree' programme: Sanssouci

The first broadcast of the new programme Sanssouci took place on April 27. The programme is entirely devoted to music from the classical and pre-classical period.

The period of interest begins around 1730, when young composers increasingly broke away from the restrictions of Baroque music, and ends about a century later, when Romanticism finally wins the day.

Sanssouci was the palace of King Frederick the Great. He was a great music lover and a gifted amateur flutist. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian and one of the most highly regarded composers of the classical era, worked at his court. But Sanssouci also means 'carefree'. That's the feeling that this music often radiates: infectious cheerfulness that allows you forget all your cares for a few moments.

Thursday May 2

Theme: Early Music

Springtime in music

In earlier times, man lived much closer to nature than now. Life was largely determined by the changing of the seasons and the rhythms of nature. This was also reflected in art. Depictions of the months and the seasons were very popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

We allow ourselves to be guided by spring in the first episode of Documento in May. There were many composers who used spring as their theme during the Romantic period, but during the Baroque and earlier periods people were also inspired by spring, a season that heralded the arrival of new life…

Listen: Documento, Thursday May 2nd, 21:00 - 22:00 CET.