Newsletter April 2017

Readers, listeners,

“The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

Competition

This month, you can win the double CD of the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, if you can answer our question correctly.

On this winnable double CD, the work is performed by the Tölzer Knabenchor, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Mariss Jansons, with soloists Emily Magee, Mark Padmore and Christina Gerhaher [BR Klassik 900120].

Previous competition

The answer to our previous question is: From 1954 to 1967, Simeon ten Holt lived in a bunker near Bergen, without a door or running water. He did however have a grand piano! The winner of the box set with piano works by Ten Holt is Floris Sirag from Groningen. Congratulations!

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Contemporary Music with Joost Kleppe

On Sunday 9 April, a new series of the programme Contemporary Music will start. The Sunday episodes are made by programme maker Miranda Driessen (see: Introducing).

Our monthly edition around composers who are working in the Netherlands today, gets a new twist from that date on. The composer featured, who helps compiling the programme, addresses a colleague he or she holds dear and to whom he or she wants to pass on the next broadcast. Hence the subtitle: Intime Briefe (Intimate Letters), after the string quartet of Leos Janacék.

In this first episode, composer Joost Kleppe reaches out to colleague Aspasia Nasopoulou.

Broadcast: Sunday 9 April, 17:00 - 18:00 hours, available for listening here

Acoustic Roots: The Folk Road Show

On Friday 14 April, The Folk Road Show are a guest at De Kargadoor for a new radio recording of Acoustic Roots.

The Folk Road Show is an international musical collective, consisting of five singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists from New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands. Each member contributes to the repertoire with their writing, and they take turns in singing the lead vocals. They alternate between the guitar, banjo, mandolin, trombone and the drums. Their harmonies are exceptionally strong and they have been compared with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Epic trombone solos

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The Musician for amateur musicians

Up to 2009, the Concertzender broadcasted a programme for and with amateur musicians, entitled The Musician. Both this title and its content are returning, starting 6 April.

Every Thursday, from 14:00 to 15:00 hours, programme maker Katrijn Kuypers looks at anything happening in the Netherlands in the world of amateur music. Featuring recordings that are, and will be made, by the Concertzender, and material that is handed to us 'from the field'. And of course, a schedule with the latest from the amateur scene. Plus, everything can be found on its special Theme Channel.

Tips and contributions are more than welcome. Katrijn is ready for them at: katrijn.kuypers@concertzender.nl

Broadcast: every Thursday starting 6 April, 14:00 - 15:00 hours.

Introducing: Miranda Driessen

In Contemporary Music, our programme on today's music, one of its compilers Miranda Driessen, interviews Dutch composers every month. At the end of the broadcast, the interviewee picks the next guest for the upcoming month. On Sunday 16 April, a new line of interviews starts, following a new format.

“The programme started in 2014 with the idea of playing music by young, contemporary composers who work in the Netherlands. Gradually, the 'young' part faded away. The composer featured in the broadcast gets to decide who will be invited to take part in the next episode. So after a while, I changed it to 'composers who work in the Netherlands today'.

I of course did get to decide who the first composer would be, and I choose my good friend and former fellow student Nikos Ioakeim. Interesting detail: at this very moment, he is at Schiphol waiting for this flight to Athens, to move back there permanently.”

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Concertzender Live: Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016

This month, you can listen to recordings of several companies at the Utrecht Early Music Festival of 2016 during the Concertzender Live of 13 and 27 April.

In the episode of Thursday 13 April, you can hear Concerto Soave with soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr and artist in residence Olga Pashchenko. On Thursday 27 April, you can listen to a recording of Carnivalesque by Italian company Micrologus.

On Sunday 28 August 2016, Argentinian soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr and the instrumentalists of the Concerto Soave ensemble performed a Venetian repertoire for holy and profane purposes, under the direction of French harpsichord player Jean-Marc Aymes. Not only the solo motets of Monteverdi sounded, but also the magnificent Serenata by Barbara Strozzi.

Young, Russian master pianist Olga Pashchenko gave three concerts during the festival's main programme and would play daily during the Eventalks.

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