 Readers,
listeners,
“Anatomical knowledge is as necessary for love as theory is for music.”
Maurice Chapelan (Frans journalist, 1906-1992)
Competition
This month you can win two tickets for a concert by the young star Anna Prohaska if you know the correct answer to our question.
The
German soprano Anna Prohaska has built up a big reputation in Germany
as soloist at the Staatsoper in Berlin. She’s already sung many tragic
heroine roles. She’ll also be doing that during the concert ‘Dido en
Cleopatra’ in the Grote Zaal in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on
Tuesday 27 September at 20:15. She will be accompanied by music
ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. See the website of the Concertgebouw for more information about the concert.
Previous competition The question in the July/Augustus newsletter
was: Which concerts inspired the CD Hotel Terminus by Erik Bosgraaf and Yuri Honing?
The correct answer is: The Brandenburg
Concertos by J.S. Bach. The winner of the CD Hotel Terminus is: Michael Samson. Congratulations!
This month's question
This month's question is: .....
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Programme maker Roland Kuit in space
Music by the sonologist-composer Roland Emile Kuit is
travelling with the NASA mission OSIRIS-REX to the asteroid Bennu. It
is the first time that work by a Dutch composer is part of a space
mission.
The NASA satellite sets off to Bennu on 8 September. This asteroid
was formed in the earliest period of our solar system and scientists
expect that molecules that were the first steps
in the creation of life
in the universe will be
found there. The OSIRIS-REX mission will
returm to Earth in September 2023 with samples from Bennu. The music by
Kuit will be left behind on Bennu on a chip.
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Bach ad Infinitum episode 400
Bach ad Infinitum
reaches another milestone on Friday 23 September at 13:00 CET with the
400th episode! Previous milstones featured the Bach favourites of
programme maker Govert Jan Bach, presenter Joop van Zijl and
coordinator Irene Stolp. This time the selections will be made by the
editor of the programme.
He explains: “The recording of another week
of Bach ad Infinitum
programmes in the studio
of the Concertzender in Utrecht, well hidden
behind the facade of the Theater Kikker on the Ganzemarkt, is
always a special event."
Always the first “The makers of Bach ad
Infinitum arrive inconspicuously enough. Benno Wormgoor is always the
first every Thursday, because he
needs to do a lot of work before we
are ready
to record another week of programmes in the afternoon. Next
is Irene Stolp, who is the coordinator for Early Music at the
Concertzender and always has lots to do."
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The Soundcafé on tour
Every year, the fashionable Swiss skiing
village of Gstaad
changes into the location
of one of the most unusual classical music
festivals in Europe: the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. The Soundcafé has
again been
invited to visit this overwhelming festival
for a few
days. Last year we had the opportunity to talk to the star tenor
Jonas Kaufmann. And we thought that nothing
would be able to better
that...
But this year we are going to talk to no-one
less than Lang Lang!
This piano virtuoso has already played for Obama in the White House,
performed with Pharell Williams and Metallica
and was in Time's list of
the most influential people. In short, a unique artist who doesn't
shy
away from cross-overs with other genres.
This can also be heard on his
new album New York Rhapsody that will be released later this year. We
will be talking to him about this album and about his vist to the
Netherlands in November.
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Panorama de Leeuw XXI: Schönberg Ensemble (2)
In Panorama de Leeuw on Wednesday
7 September, Thea Derks
looks at the
Schönberg Ensemble. The Schönberg
Ensemble was formed in
1974 at the Conservatorium in Den Haag and
immediately had a major
impact. The
most influential musician in the ensemble
was
the violist
Henk Guittart, a man with
a great love of the music of the Second
Viennese School around Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
GGuittart exchanged letters with Schönberg's children and visited
them in Los Angeles in 1977. The were so impressed by his
enthousiasm that they gave him a suitcase full of unpublished material.
The violist was determined to perfom
this music and was supported in
this endeavour
by the other members of the Schönberg Ensemble and by
Reinbert de Leeuw.
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Gaudeamus Music Week: our tips, concert recordings and radioLAB
The Gaudeamus Music Week takes place from September 7 to 11
at various locations in Utrecht. The Gaudeamus Music Week is well
respected by admirers of contemporary music. During the festival you
can hear the music of today and the music of tomorrow.
The opening concert features Up-Close by Michel van der Aa (the winner of the Gaudeamus Award in 1999). Van
der Aa has rejuvenated the cello concert with this multi-disciplinary
work which combines his music with film in a unique way. What do we see
and what do we hear? Is it music theatre, film music or a video opera?
It is without doubt a virtuoso concert for solo cello and string
orchestra and an overwhelming multi-media experience. Van der Aa wrote
Up-Close for the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and received the prestigious
Grawemeyer Award for this work in 2013.
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Café Zimmermann: Joachim Eijlander
A new episode of Café Zimmermann, part of our series Bach ad Infinitum, is broadcast on Friday 9 September. The guest in this episode is the Dutch cellist Joachim Eijlander.
Joachim Eijlander plays a 'pasticcio suite'
consisting of parts of the cellosuites by Johann Sebastian Bach and
caprices by the Belgian-
Italian composer and cellist Joseph Marie
dall'Abaco (1710-1805). He will also be talking
to programme maker
Govert Jan Bach.
The writer Wim Faas is also our guest. He will talk about his new book 'Alla maniera Italiana', about Bach and the Italian baroque.
This episode of Café Zimmermann was recorded on2 Juli 2016 in the Muzieklokaal in Utrecht.
Broadcast: Friday 9 September, 13:00 - 14:00 CET
Repeat: Friday 16 September, 13:00 - 14:00 CET
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