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The Concertzender in March: travelling the world, through the ages

This month, we're once again travelling the world, through the ages. From Dutch jazz selected by Cor Bakker and performed in our own studio to works by Domenico Zipoli, hidden for nearly 300 years.

From a contemporary oratorio from Lithuania to musical songs from the Great American Songbook. Our programme makers consistently find exceptional musicians, composers, and conductors they're eager to feature.

Enjoy listening !

On demand

Theme: Pocket Concerts

Pocket Concert by the Cor Bakker Trio

Pianist Cor Bakker, bassist Jeroen Vierdag, and drummer Frits Landesbergen were our guests for a Pocket Concert. Together, they represent the very best of Dutch jazz on the worldofjazz.nl stage. You'll hear three Dutch works that have always inspired Cor.

While delving into the Dutch Jazz Archive, Cor selected the advanced piece Six Seven Eight, a composition in six, seven, and eight-four time by the illustrious Dutch pianist Rob Franken (1941-1983), a pioneer of the Fender Rhodes electric piano.

Read more and listen to their Pocket Concert. We've already welcomed many jazz greats to our studio tomorrow. Watch them all on the Pocket Concerts channel on YouTube.

Pocket Concerts is made possible by World of Jazz, injazz, the Dutch Jazz Archive, and Podiumkunst.net.

Thursday 5 March

Theme: Early

Zipoli: Italian Grandmaster in South America

Documento focuses on Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726), an Italian Baroque composer. After studying with Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples and Bernardo Pasquini in Rome, among others, he left for the New World as a Jesuit missionary.

In Córdoba, present-day Argentina, he became a music teacher at the local Jesuit church. He also taught music in Paraguay and Peru. Zipoli died in Córdoba at the young age of 38 from an infectious disease. We will hear, among other works, his Beatus Vir, one of fourteen works by Zipoli discovered in 1972 in the episcopal archives in Bolivia.

Listen: Documento, Thursday 5 March, 21:00 – 22:00 CET.

Sunday 8 March

Theme: Classical

A top conductor with a top orchestra

In the long-running series In the Spotlight, programme maker Emmanuel Overbeeke focuses this month on German conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973). He is considered one of the most important conductors of the 20th century.

In this first episode, we begin with Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 4 in C minor performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Klemperer.

Listen: In the Spotlight, Sunday 8 March, 16:00 - 17:00 CET.

Friday 20 March and on demand

Theme: World

Experience the world-music concerts by Nusantara Beat and De Niemanders

Thanks to our partnership with the concert hall TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, you can experience a variety of world and roots music concerts on Concertzender Live World. This month, we're broadcasting the concert by De Niemanders (recorded on December 21, 2025). This unique Dutch project gives vulnerable people a voice.

Previously working with prisoners, they now feature performers from refugee centres. Their energetic show blends diverse styles, from Arabic influences to African rhythms and alternative rock. Audiences and critics alike were full of praise.

Listen: Concertzender Live World, Friday 20 March, 22:00 – 23:00 CET.

Last month, we broadcast a concert by Nusantara Beat (recorded on December 12, 2025). These musicians have Indonesian roots and draw their inspiration from older sounds. They then transform them into modern grooves that they call Indonesia Psych Groove.

Listen: Concertzender Live World, broadcast on Friday 20 February.

Thanks to TivoliVredenburg for the recordings.

Tuesday 24 March

Theme: Contemporary

Ode to Vilnius from Onutė Narbutaitė

In Northern Lights on March 24th, programme maker Luc Nijs will feature a single exceptional work: the oratorio Centones Meae Urbi (1997) by Lithuanian composer Onutė Narbutaitė. This piece is considered to be one of the most important modern classical compositions from Lithuania and marked her international breakthrough.

The oratorio is a musical ode to Vilnius, the "Jerusalem of the North," and depicts the city as a rich patchwork of cultures and histories. Hence the English translation of the title "My City of Patchworks."

This is a recent recording from 2024, released on the Finnish label Ondine. The performance is by the Kaunas State Choir and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Robertas Šervenikas, and featuring the soloists Gunta Gelgote and Nerijus Masevičius.

Listen: Northern Lights, Tuesday 24 March, 22:00 – 23:00 CET.

Saturdayday 28 March

Theme: Jazz

The "Big Five" in the 21st century

For almost five years, Ineke Heijliger has been producing and presenting The Great American Songbook every month. This programme explores the canon of 20th-century American jazz and popular songs.

Many composers and lyricists have been featured, but the "The Big Five" has not yet been featured: Irving Berlin (photo), Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Cole Porter. Together, they have contributed the largest part of the Songbook.

In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald brought the repertoire of these five with a wide audience of enthusiasts. But is their repertoire still being recorded by the current generation of vocalists? And what do those recordings sound like in this 21st century? We'll hear all about it in the new series, The "Big Five" in the 21st Century.

Listen: The Great American Songbook, Saturday 28 March, 16:00 – 17:00 CET.

Announcement

Theme: Jazz | World of Jazz

100 Years of Davis & Coltrane – Jazz Legends Revived

This year, Concertzender and World of Jazz will be celebrating the centennial of the jazz legends Miles Davis (1926–1991) and John Coltrane (1926–1967).

Coltrane and Davis Their collaboration in the 1950s, when Coltrane was part of Davis's legendary quintet, produced music still considered a highlight in jazz history.

Miles Davis and John Coltrane are still impressive and important musicians. We will celebrate their story with special recordings, original perspectives, background stories, and conversations with experts.

Stay tuned to our newsletter and the websites Concertzender.nl and Worldofjazz.nl for more information about our broadcasts featuring anecdotes and plenty of music from these two icons.