 Readers,
listeners,
“It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.”
Darius Milhaud (French composer, 1892-1974)
Competition
This month you can win a CD with the violin sonatas by Charles Ives if you know the correct answer to our competition question.
The prize is the CD Con Slugarocko, with a performance
of the four violin sonatas by Annabella Berthomé-Reynolds (violin)
and Dirk Herten (piano) [Wh'te CD 2016].
Previous competition Last month's question was: What is the origin of the name of the Diogenes Quartet?
The correct answer was: the name refers to their friendship with Rudolph C. Bettenschart,
one of the founders of the Swiss publisher Diogenes.
The winner is Sander de Boer from Leeuwarden. Congratulations, your prize is on its way! » read more
Opera in de 20th Century: 1925 onwards 
Since January, the programme Opera in the 20th Century
has been broadcast every Tuesday at 14:00 CET on the Concertzender. The
programme is providing a chronological overview of the development of
opera in the broadest sense of the term, including operette and, for
example, zarzuela from Spain.
The series is complied by programme maker Luc Nijs, who previously worked on our programmes Contemporary Music and The Previous Century. In Opera in the 20th Century
you can listen to both the classics from European opera as well as
works from the local traditions of the Far East and the Middle East.
You can also expect to hear older and less well-known recordings.
“We started in 1900 and will end in 2019. The historical
developments reveals the important themes in the music as a series of
layers.
» read more
Organ works in Eastern Friesland
The programme Organ works
is broadcast on the second Monday of the month from 19:00 to 20:00 CET.
The programme features historical organs and the music written for
those organs. For a long time the focus of the programme has been on
unknown organs in the province of Groningen.
In March we started a new series of programmes that looked at organs
in Northern Germany. Northern Germany, just like Groningen,
contains a wealth of historical organs. The oldest organ in the region
is the Gothic organ in Rysum.
There are also organs in this region from the Renaissance and
Baroque periods. These organs can be found in the smallest parish
churches as well as in the major cathedrals. het orgel van UttumThe
instruments have often been restored with great care to ensure that the
sound remains authentic and therefore perfectly suited to the music
written in the period in which they were built.
» read more
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New programme series: DreamScenes
DreamScenes
is a new monthly series of programmes that is first broadcast on the
second Sunday of every month at 20:00 CET (and is subsequently
available at all times 'on demand').
The name of the series already reveals the nature of the programmes:
a monthly dreamscape that consistent of a non-stop mix of ambient
soundscapes, experimental electronica and neo-classical music (and
sometimes other genres, what is important is the atmosphere that the
music invokes not the label that it has been given). The choice for a
continuous mix has been made so that a dreamlike mood can be created
and the playlist (as usual) can always be found on the Concertzender
website).
Tension and relaxation Don't expect the
programme to only consist of quiet and relaxing sounds: after all,
dreams can also be exciting and can even lead to nightmares. It is the
alternation between tension and relaxation that creates the atmosphere
in which the listener can start to dream. And dreams need not only
occur late at night, day-dreams are possible at any moment!
» read more
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