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daily from the end of June 2019Theme: Classical Music |
Morning Edition: waking you up before you goFrom the end of June the Concertzender is starting each day with a new programme: Morning Edition. The basis is very simple: every weekday 3 hours of classical music to get up to, or to leave, or to listen to at home. We play complete works, sometimes around a theme, with short explanations about the music, the theme, the composers and/or the performers. Three compilers and two presenters rotate. Each team records 7 morning editions once every two weeks, enough for one week. Morning Edition is a 'work in progress'. It’s being tweaked to make it even better and connect text and music as closely as possible. Permanent presenter Pauline Verburg explains: Copresenter Stef and I are free to write the texts ourselves and to choose what we want to emphasise. So to prepare I listen a lot to the pieces, but sometimes a work has such an intriguing title and I think it’s nice for listeners to hear more about that. So I investigate that. So this preparatory work takes a lot of time! The Morning Edition is recorded on Thursday mornings with permanent technician Lex van der Wal. |
When will it be broadcast? The Concertzender RecordingsSymphony orchestras, recitals, festivals, jamsessions, organ concerts: the Concertzender makes more than 200 recordings per year. Enthusiastic visitors often ask our technicians when the concert will be broadcast. Because that differs from concert to concert and we’re dependant on others, that question is not so simple to answer. Shame! But Theo van Soest has come up with a temporary solution which partly solves the problem.
Jazz: Regular recordings in the Bimhuis Meet the producers |
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from 22nd August to 1st September 2019Theme: Early Music |
Napolitan spheres at the Festival Oude Muziek (Early Music Festival)Lovers of early music are on the alert: from 22nd August to 1st September the centre of Utrecht wil once again be full of the Early Music Festival, which this year has Naples as its theme.
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Friday 2nd August 2019Theme: Classical MusicGenre: Baroque |
Compositore del mese: PergolesiThe August Composer of the Month is Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. His hometown Naples is this year’s theme for the Early Music Festival. Pergolesi was born in 1710 in the Italian town of Iesi and studied from his 10th in Naples. He took violin lessons and must have been an outstanding singer in his youth. In the brief 26 years he lived, Pergolesi wrote a lot that is barely known. His Stabat mater is world famous, but Pergolesi wrote a lot more, in different styles. Such as his theatre music.
As theatre animal Pergolesi together with others was at the start of the comic opera: opera buffa. which is partly based on the Commedia dell’arte. The genre started around 1730, as entr’acte during the performance of serious and higher opera seria, full of relaxed music about mythical and historical figures. |
Friday 9th August 2019Theme: Early Music |
Ancient practice: Mozarabic liturgy reconstructedLost Music reconstructed: Mozarabic songs in Concertzender Live In Concertzender Live on Friday 9th August 2019 we’re broadcasting two recent recordings from the Dutch Gregorian Festival 2019. The 7th edition took place last June in Den Bosch. On 16th June the Concertzender recorded the concerts by Gregoriana Amsterdam and from Ensemble Cantores Sancti Gregorii. Mozarabic Both Gregoriana Amsterdam and mathematician Darrell Conklin have developed a method to generate melodies from the lost songs of the Mozarabic ritual. |
Sunday 11th August 2019Theme: CrosslinksGenre: Ambient |
Dream a little dream: Dream Scenes special Bratislava editionBratislava, 29 June, 21.00. Sleeping bags are ready, tables full of apparatus and softly whispering beamers are getting ready for a very special get together: the Ambient Sleepover Festival. Between 21.00 and 08.00 there was an eleven hour long night concert in the Slovak city, with eleven acts who gave a performance for a public who listened, dozed or just slept.
Festival mix aired at the Concertzender The festival was organised by Lukáš Bulko (Alapastel) and Lukáš Medlen (Charon). The line up contained performances by Chaosdroid, Whithe, Alapastel, Casi Cada Minuto, Phragments, Prvočísla, 16 Colours, Strom Noir, Vrtačky Po Desáté Hodině, Meltingeyes and Charon. For anyone – hardly thinkable – who doesn’t know about the Slovakian ambient/experimental music scene, possibly only the name Strom Noir, and to a lesser extent Alapastel, will be known. Another good reason to delve deeper into the unknown Slovakian ambient-scene. Music knows no boundaries! |
every two weeks on Thursday eveningsTheme: Classical Music |
Meeting Ludwig Schuncke
Ludwig Schunke lived a proverbial short life (21 December 1810 – 7 December 1834). He was a pianist and composer. When he was 17 he went to Paris where he studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Antonín Rejcha and where he became friends with well-known contemporaries including Kalkbrenner and Berlioz. In 1830 he returned to Germany where he also got to know Chopin while passing through the country. In 1833 in Leipzig Schuncke began a friendship with Robert Schumann which led to them jointly establishing the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1834. Schumann’s Toccata op.7 is “dédiée à son ami Louis Schuncke”. Schuncke only wrote a few pieces for the piano but they were greatly admired by Robert Schumann at the time and are now considered to be some of the best surviving works for the piano from the first half of the 19th century.
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starting September 2019Theme: Classical Music |
Beethoven on courseThe Concertzender will be celebrating the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven in a new series of programmes in which all of his work will be broadcast. The programmes will be broadcast every weekday from 10.00 to 11.00 CET. In the programmes, experts will also be sharing their thoughts on the significance of his music.
Work on the programmes will start in September.
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19 to 23 and 26 to 30 August 2019Theme: Early Music |
Ad infinitum: Nessun gionro senza BachBach is in Italy, so perhaps we should be calling him Giovanni Sebastiano Bach, in the same way as Giovanni Battista Lulli changed his name to Jean-Baptiste Lully when he moved to France.
On Monday 19 August in Bach ad Infinitum Govert Jan Bach will be investigating the link between Bach, opera and this well-known work by Pergolesi. Bach wrote a variation (or as he himself called it, an improved version) of this work: cantata Tilge Höchster, meine Sünden BWV 1083. The programme will also include a performance of the original work by Pergolesi by Concerto Italiano led by Rinaldo Alessandrini and a performance of cantata BWV 1083 by the Theatre of Early Music that features Emma Kirkby. Listen to Bach ad Infinitum
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every Saturday, Tuesday and on demandTheme: Jazz |
The palace of Nostagia
Our special on the 31 August features the wit and wisdom of the parodist Stan Freberg, the comic Charlie Drake singing about the tribulations of owning a boomerang, George Formby with his ‘banjolele’, the French composer, arranger and sound wizard André Popp, a song about a race between a Cadillac and a Nash from The Playmates, and ‘the man with a thousand voices’ Mel Blanc. Million Sellers |
Theme: Contemporary Music |
Opera in the 20th century: Un re in ascolto - Luciano BerioBy Luc Nijs
Berio wrote the libretto himself, based on Sotto il sole giaguaro by Italo Calvini, an Italian writer of short stories. Berio called his opera an ‘azione musicale’: a musical action. The work does not really have a linear story line and as a result is surreal. The opera is about a mythical king who only has contact with his subjects through eavesdropping on their conversations. A convincing performance by a theatre group results in the king having increasing difficulty in distinguishing reality from fiction. He comes into a negative psychological spiral and the future that he foresees for his kingdom ultimately leads to his downfall. This king seems frighteningly similar to several of our current world leaders. Recommended recording: Luciano Berio - Un re in ascolto, world première from 1984, issued by Col Legno (WWE 2CD 20005), and featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker led by Lorin Maazel.
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Last month we started our new programming, with the Morning Edition as a comfortable start to every work day. We’re very interested in hearing what you thought of this. Did you get up earlier? Do you go to work more relaxed, or has your burnout risk been reduced bya few percentage points? What do think of the choice of music? The presentation? The themes? Tell us! And that also applies to our news letter, the app and all the other programmes and concerts we record and broadcast.
The Concertzender website announces all the recordings 
The Concertzender will be very involved and will broadcast one hour per day of Early Music during the Festival. We’ll be following the programme very closely so you can count on Napolean tarantellas, artist in residence Marco Marcoboni, the Huelgas Ensemble, Giuliano Prandi and much much more.
During his life Pergolesi was very active in the theatre, both for large and small podia. In our Pergolesi-programme on 2nd August you can hear an unmissable theatrical group of four cantatas. This was unknown for a long time, such as much of Pergolesi. It came to light only when Stravinsky found this and other Pergolesi works interesting enough to arrange it in his ballet Pulcinella.
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The production team that is responsible for the programmes consists of:
Between 19 and 30 August Bach ad Infinitum will be in an Italian mood inspired by this year’s Festival of Early Music in Utrecht. As part of the festival, the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi will be performed on Saturday 31 August in the Geertekerk in Utrecht. The soprano role will be sung by the world-famous Hana Blažíková.
Nostalgia being ubiquitous, you can experience nostalgia on a camping site, in a traffic jam on the way to the beach or when watching a disappointing holiday special on the telly. No need to get gloomy, though, for the Palace of Nostalgia will be there during the summer to provide the perfect music for these moments.
The Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003) was known for his experimental work, which included electronic music. He wrote very few complete operas, but did write some operatic pieces that were used in other works. The exception was his opera Un re in ascolto from 1984.
