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Radio Show: Waltz!
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW '...This is Sergei Rachmaninov’s nostalgic waltz, the second of his three symphonic dances. It became the swansong of a composer whose romantic music was an anachronism in the twentieth century. The...
Radio Show: Defying gravity
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW “…This is the gravity defying scherzo from Robert Schumann’s 2nd symphony. Schumann’s symphony will be getting company today of Joseph Haydn’s ninetieth symphony and of Bohuslav...
Radio Show: Salomé’s Dance
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW ‘…This is Richard Strauss’ dance of the young girl Salomé, who takes us back to biblical times in ancient Palestine. There is an even older biblical story told in music: the Israelite...
Radio Show: On wings of a dove
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW week 35 "…with a few chime strokes and a flute accompanied by pizzicato strings, the Fifteenth Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich opens on the wings of a dove. It is his final symphony, which he wrote...
Article: Long live early music!
Every year, at the end of August, the medieval city of Utrecht gears up for a major tourist attraction: the Utrecht Early Music Festival. This ten-day music bonanza is the largest of its kind, attracting tens of thousands of music lovers...
Radio Show: A tragic love story
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW: “….May, 17 1893 was a memorable evening when Paris witnessed the premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck’s tragedy Pelléas et Mélisande, a tragic love story set in Medieval times. A few...
Radio Show: A new voice in music
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW: “… The American composer John Adams is one of the foremost representatives of a worldwide-renewed interest in tonal music. Music that communicates, embraces or even flirts with audiences. That is the...
Radio Show: Dutch talent, French melodies..
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW ‘’…. one of the most sensuous of all French melodies is this one, Méditation, from Massenet’s opera Thaïs, played by Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma. Hello and welcome, Live at...
Radio Show: Mahler, Der Titan
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW "… Leonard Bernstein conducting Gustav Mahler’s first symphony in Amsterdam, October 1987. That evening was one of a number of historic Mahler encounters between Leonard Bernstein and the Royal...
Radio Show: Edo de Waart conducts Strauss
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW ''....Hello and welcome live at the Concertgebouw. Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben will be performed today by the Hague Philharmonic under guest conductor Edo de Waart. Pianist Joyce Yang is soloist in...
