 Readers,
listeners,
“I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your
best work.”
Brian Eno
A new website!
Listeners
to the Concertzender cannot have missed it: our website has changed. We
had reached the limits of the old website. The new one already feels
familiar and offers us many new possibilities for the future. 
Director Sem de Jongh explains: “The new website was essential to be able to host the ConcertPodium. ConcertPodium is
an online archive of concert recordings from various organisations such
as Gaudeamus and the New Ensemble, all of whom have close relationships
with the Concertzender. At the moment, these recordings are still being
added to the site. The old site had been created more than 15 years ago
and was no longer suitable for such a major addition, it was better to
start again.”
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Competition
This month you can win a CD with new music for cello and organ if you know the correct answer to our competition question.
The
prize is the CD Seraph, with new music for cello and organ performed by
cellist Christina Meißner and the organists Poul Skjøstrup Larsen and
Reinhard Seeliger [Querstand VKJK 1429].
Previous competition
Last month's question was: Who was the composer of the concerts that inspired Bach
to write his Italian concertos?
The
correct answer was: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Ernst van Sachsen-Weimar,
Alessandro Marcello, Benedetto Marcello, Georg Philipp Telemann and
Giuseppe Torelli. The winner of the CD with the Italian concertos
perfomed by Matthias Havinga was R. Heller from De Meern.
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Concert recordings in December: Christmas concerts
In the course of a year our technicians record around 250
concerts. This year they recorded 40 concerts during the Early Music
Festival in Utrecht. These will be broadcast over the coming weeks on
the Concertzender.
This year our regular technician Wijnand de Groot was not available,
so we used technicians who could step in at short notice. Many thanks!
Christmas concerts
In December the Concertzender will be recording three Early Music Christmas concerts:
Christmas with Wishful Singing
Combattimento and Wishful Singing:
a sparkling combination for a delightful Christmas concert full of
charming Christmas music by Charpentier from the French Baroque, the
‘Christmas concerto’ by Arcangelo Corelli, the famous Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi and a-capella arrangements of well-known christmas songs.
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Harmonious: En Blanc et Noir - Noël Lee
This month we continue our series of five programmes about
the work of the composer Noël Lee. The first episode was broadcast on
Sunday 27 November.
Programme maker Evert Jan Nagtegaal was planning a visit to Paris in
2013 to make a recording together with his good friend the
pianist/composer Noël Lee. However, Lee died suddenly immediately
before this trip took place. The planned recording session was
unfortunately replaced by a funeral service. Evert Jan was
devastated after his trip to Paris but declared his intention to one
day make a portrait about this very productive musician. Now, three
years later, this intention has resulted in an impressive five-part
series of programmes in which Evert Jan tells the story of Noël Lee's
life.
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Popart competition
In the last newsletter we announced our intention to give
away two copies of the DVD Present to the Highest Pudding by Robert-Jan
Stips. The responses were extremely enthousiastic, and simply
"nostalgia" according to our recording engineer Kees van de Wiel.
One reader Wym van Noort responded with the following story: “I have
been a fan of Supersister since I was a teenager and started buying LPs
with my pocket-money.  I
bought all of the Supersister LPs and I still have them. One of them
was the compilation: Superstarshine vol.3. This contains the B-side of
the single The Groupies of the Band. Two female background singers can
be heard on this track, but their names are not mentioned on the record
cover.”
A surprising discovery
“I met my current girlfriend in 2008. It was love at first sight
because we had so much in common. For example, we were both musicians.”
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Acoustic Roots: review of 2016
On Friday 16th December from 21:00 – 22:00 the makers of
Acoustic Roots, Karin van den Boogaert, Carolien Cleiren and technician
Hans, look back with great pleasure over a successful year in which
they were able to welcome a number of very special guests in the
Pieterskerk and the Kargadoor in Utrecht.
They'll play their personal favourite tracks and recount some
background stories. It was a very international group from countries
such as Iran, Syria, France, England, Turkey, Russia, Argentina,
Lebanon and India.
From Pieternel to Kargadoor
In January and February the last two concerts took place in the old
16th century chapel de Pieternel in the Pieterskerk in Utrecht where
Anass Habib and Babak-o-doestan were our guests.
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Solta a Franga – a New Year's Eve party without borders
Solta a Franga on Friday evenings at 23:00 CET
has been the place on the Concertzender for fans of exotic dance music
since 2009. The programme's subtitle is 'A party without borders' and
the DJs mix funky Afrobeat, explosive Balkan beats, hot Latin grooves,
uplifting Oriental sounds and much more music from around the world.
You can expect music from obscure old records alongside the latest
releases.
We are again ending the year with out traditional night of Solta a Franga.
The programme starts at 23:00 CET on Friday 30 December and continues
into the morning of Saturday 31 December. Our DJs will be mixing
together their favourite releases and most impressive discoveries from
the last year. The regular team of DJ Safri, Bertú, Socrates, Rafadelic
and Goldfinger will be joined by a number of guest DJs during the night.
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 Next newsletter
The next newsletter from the Concertzender will appear
in January.
In the meantime, go to »
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Performers
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