 Readers,
listeners,
“The composer joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sound.”
Alan Hovhaness (American composer, 1911 - 2000)
Competition
This month you can win a dvd of Mahler's Second Symphony. To do so you have to answer the prize question correctly.
The prize is the dvd of the Second Symphony by Mahler, performed by
the Concertgebouworkest conducted by Daniele Gatti [RCO DVD RCO 17109].
Previous competition
The November question was: Which Groningen writer wrote a thriller around Vivaldi ? The answer is: Eris Bos (De trouwe nimf). The winner of the double cd of l'Estro Armonico - 12 Concertos, opus 3 by Antonio Vivaldi is: Onno Seegers from Purmerend. Congratulations, the prize is on its way!
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Concertzender Live: Holland is Jazz
 The
Concertzender has been recording more than 150 concerts each year since
it started. This provides us with a rich archive with music in
many different genres that we can use in our programmes.
In Concertzender Live on Saturday 9th December at 19:00 CET you can listen to a concert by the sextet led by jazz trumpeter Loet van der Lee titled Holland is Jazz:
Van der Lee’s special and original tribute in jazz, photography and
language to the ‘forgotten’ beauty of the Netherlands and
its provinces.
On draaiomjeoren.com you can read an interview with Van der Lee from 2007.
Holland is Jazz: Saturday 9 December, 19:00 CET.
Composer of the month: Henri Dutilleux
Every month the Concertzender devotes attention to the work of a composer. In December that's Henri Dutilleux.
The French composer and music teacher Henri Dutilleux was born on
22nd January 1916 in Angers in Mid-France. When he was six his family
set up house in Douai in French-Flanders. From a very young age
Dutilleux's talent for music was obvious. 
During his schooldays he was already following lessons from Victor
Gallois in piano, harmony and counterpoint at the conservatorium in
Douai. Between 1933 and 1938 he studied at the Conservatoire National
Music in Paris. With Jean and Noël Gallon he studied harmony and
counterpoint, with Henri Paul Busser composition and with Maurice
Emmanuel musical history.
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 More from the Festival of Early Music 2017 in Concertzender Live
In December we continue our series of broadcasts in Concertzender Live of the recordings that we made during the Festival of Early Music 2017 and the Grachtenfestival 2017.
On Thursday 14 December you can listen to the concerts Een Liedboek van Hervormingsgezinde Psalmcomponisten
performed by the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam and the concert given by
the Dutch ensemble The Counterpoints during the Grachtenfestival
2017. In this concert they played baroque music by Couperin, Telemann
and Pisendel.
Concertzender Live: Thursday 14 December, 20:00 – 22:00 CET.
100th Madge-point
On Sunday 10 December 2017 at 10:00 CET we reach another
milestone when Geoffrey Madge presents the 100th programme in his
series Madge-point.
In the series, Louis Thörig and Geoffrey Madge revisit important
recordings from the past and present and add their own interesting
comments and anecdotes.
The series not only looks at pianists, other instrumentalists,
singers and conductors are also the subject of analysis. The list is
now too long to publish and it is impossible to select highlights
because they are always major names.
In the 100th programme they will be looking at a recording of a live
performance by Geoffrey Madge himself. Recently, the Concertzender
recorded his performance of the Goldberg variations by Johann Sebastian
Bach. Their views on this masterpiece are worth hearing.
Madge-point: Sunday 10 December, 10:00 CET.
Christmas broadcasts in Concertzender Live
On Sunday 24th and Thursday 28th December we're broadcasting two Early Music Christmas concerts.
On Sunday 24th December at 15:00 you can hear the Christmas concert Christmette
by the Margaretha Consort led by Marit Broekroelofs. In this concert
you can hear music by Michael Praetorius which he wrote to texts by
Maarten Luther. The concert follows the liturgy for the Christmas
evening service.
This concert was recorded on 7th December in the Oude Helenakerk in Aalten.
On Thursday 28th December at 20:00 CET we're presenting a specal Christmas broadcast: Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium performed by the young baroque orchestra Dutch Baroque led by harpischordist Gerard de Wit (a former student of Ton Koopman).
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 X-Rated celebrates!
X-Rated, our programme for experimental,
avant-garde, industrial, ambient and electronics has a lot of specials
coming up on the Sunday evenings in December and January.
During the weekend of 8/9 December the Amsterdam edition of the adventurous festival Haperende Mens
takes place in OCCII in Amsterdam. In X-Rated on Sunday 17 December
we are giving away tickets for the Rotterdam edition on 12/13
January in Worm in Rotterdam.
On 10 December you can win tickets for Fiber X; The Rest Is Noise on 5 January in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam, with performances by Alessandro Cortini and Demdike Stare.
On the night before Christmas, 24 December, X-Rated
begins an hour early at 20:00 CET for the traditional heavyweight
and extra-long Christmas special. On New Year's Eve there is also a
non-stop broadcast of X-Rated with two special mixes.
Finally, the best music from 2017 according to X-Rated will be broadcast during the first two Sundays in 2018: 7th January and 14th January.
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