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Radio Show: Rich in Brass
Live at the Concertgebouw: '…Ces concerts, riches de cuivre, these concerts rich in brass sounds, a poetic title for an extremely poetic and intuitive contemporary piece that recently was written by the Dutch composer Bart Visman....
Radio Show: Heaven's Life
Live at the Concertgebouw: '...This week in Live at the Concertgebouw : Gustav Mahler’s symphony number four, nicknamed ‘Das Himmlische Leben – Heaven’s Life. It is a work with a unique purity, lightness and...
Radio Show: Dramatic Love Story
Live at the Concertgebouw: '...The dance of the Knights from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo & Juliet. Today live at the Concertgebouw conductor Jaap van Zweden will present his selection of dances, depicting the two feuding...
Radio Show: Adventurous Orchestral Manoeuvres
Live at the Concertgebouw: '...This symphony in three movements by Igor Stravinsky will be the concluding masterpiece of a concert given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the main hall of the Concertgebouw. The concert is part of the...
Radio Show: Two Child Prodigies
Live at the Concertgebouw: ‘…Felix Mendelssohn is accompanied by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart today. It is a most natural choice to hear these two composers in one concert, although the two never met. Mendelssohn was born some...
Radio Show: Hymn to the Night
Live at the Concertgebouw: "...The late romantic Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock was one of the first artists to compose a ‘symphonic poem’ for voice and orchestra. Diepenbrock was trained as a classicist but as a...
Radio Show: Mahler's Ninth
Live at the Concertgebouw: "...Every generation needs and desires its own Mahler. At least that is the case in Holland. The Concertgebouw has always been a Mahler sanctuary starting in the days when the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler...
Radio Show: Field trip along musical roots
Live at the Concertgebouw: "...The passionately fired up final movement of Bela Bartok’s Music for strings, percussion and celesta. It was a groundbreaking work composed in the 1930s. Trailblazing, modern, new and yet, in this...
Radio Show: Mozart's Musical Wonders
Live at the Concertgebouw: "...The Overture to Mozart’s opera Le Nozze di Figaro. It is one of the wonders of Mozart’s mature years. The approximately 30 year old composer delivered one masterwork after the other in every...
Radio Show: Rays of sunshine
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW “...in this second movement from Jeans Sibelius’ fourth symphony rays of sunlight break through the clouds of an overall dark and austere work. But a great and impressive work it is. Sibelius’...
