 Readers, listeners,
“Music is the can opener of your soul.”
Henry Miller, American author (1891-1980)
Competition
This month you can win a CD of the label Pentatone with performances of Symphony No 1 and the ‘Poem of Ecstasy’  by Alexander Scriabin if you know the answer to the question.
Last month the question was: In the first part of the seventh
symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich the composer quotes another piece
of his own music. Which piece is that? The correct answer was: His
opera ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’. The winner
is Tessa Heeroma from Amsterdam. The CD with music of Shostakovich
is on its way to her.
This month's question
June's prize question is: .....
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‘Concertzender Live’: Les Flamboyants, Per Sonat and Ricercar Consort
Thursday 11 June (20.00-22.00) in ‘Concert-
zender Live’
you will hear not two but three concert recordings of the Festival
Oude Muziek Utrecht 2014 (Festival Early Music) this time: Les
Flamboyants, Per Sonat and the Ricercar Consort with soprano
Céline Scheen.
During the concert of Les Flamboyants renais-
sance music will
sound which include a virtuoso arranged qoudlibet by Heinrich
Isaac. Les Flam-
boyants are specialised in instrumental
music from
around 1500. The ensemble performs
music by Isaac with a singer, gambas, flutes
and plucked instruments.
Per Sonat, conducted by Sabine Lutzenberger, also performs
renaissance music but around
‘the Habsburg mayor
of Augsburg’.
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Jew's harp workshop in Amersfoort
The Jew's harp is a small plucked instrument which is being
played in many music genres: from folk music, classical music and
contemporary dance music
to post electronic music.
The Jew's harp is found in Italy, Austria, Norway, Russia, the
United States and Indonesia. Each continent has its own Jew's harp
traditions.
Since a few years Yakutia (north eastern Siberia) has known
a national holiday for the Jew's harp: Khomus Day. There is no
other country where
the Jew's harp is held in such a high regard.
Night of the Jew's harp
A few years ago Jew's harp player Danibal already composed a ‘Night of the Jew's harp’ for the Concertzender and we are trying to get him to prepare a sequel to this.
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CD of the month: ‘The Complete Alpha Recordings’ 
The CD of the month was chosen by Louke Helle (see 'Introducing...')
Her explanation on this choice: “I chose a not very recent but a very
beautiful collection: ‘The Complete Alpha
Recordings’ by the Ensemble L’Arpeggiata conducted by Christina
Pluhar. This is a collection box with six CDs full of beautiful music.
Especially the number ‘Homo fugit velut umbra’ still moves me
deeply.”
Last year a selection of this box was broad-
casted in the programme ‘Klassieke Zaken’ (Classical Affairs).
 The Young Folk in ‘Acoustic Roots’
In June the Irish folk band The Young Folk will perform
in the Pieternel of the Pieterskerk in Utrecht. The recording
is private so without an audience and will be broadcasted on 19
June from 21.00 till 22.00.
The Young Folk is an Irish band formed around singer, guitarist and
songwriter Anthony Furey. As the son of George Furey who was part
of the famous band the Furey Brothers, he comes from a musical family.
Anthony Furey not only has a talent for composing but also a beautiful
voice. And he sure isn't the only one of the band who can sing; in
several songs the voices of the band melt together in beautiful
harmonies.
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‘Café Zimmermann’ with Henk van Zonneveld
In a new episode of ‘Café Zimmermann’, in which we
receive guests with a passion for Bach, our guest is harpsichord
player, organ player, teacher and conductor Henk van
Zonneveld. He will crack a Bach code for us.
According to many the masterwork of Bach is his last keyboard
work: ‘Die Kunst der
Fuge’, next
to his St Matthew's Passion and High Mass. Countless
performances and over 200 different CD registrations have only one
thing in common: they all start with the first fugue (BWV1080/1).
Otherwise they continue to differ regarding to
the number and order of
the remaining fugues and canons.
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 Introducing… Louke Helle, assistant secretary
Louke Helle is 64 years old. She ended up at the secretariat
of the Concertzender via the Amsterdam Vrijwilligerscentrale (a centre
for volunteers). She has been working at
the Concertzender for over
five years now.
“My work is diverse. I enter new CDs in the database and I check if
old CDs have been entered correctly. Especially the number of
tracks
with the correct times are important
to the broadcasts. After the
broadcasts I put
the used CDs back to where they belong. We have stored
over 20,000 CDs. So each CD has
to be put back in its right place,
otherwise we
will never find it again.”
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 Next newsletter
The next newsletter from the Concertzender will appear
in July.
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