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. This exquisite new orchestral score combines wonderfully well with the music of that other Dutch composer who, a generation ago, was perennially in love with French music: Rudolf Escher. Not to mention the two French composers on today’s program…' [RNW-host Hans Haffmans]

part 1

part 2

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Kazushi Ono             
Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Rudolf Escher: Musique pour l’esprit en deuil
Henri Dutilleux: Concerto for violin and orchestra, ‘L ‘Arbre des songes’
Bart Visman: Ces concerts, riches de cuivre… (World Première 2010)
Claude Debussy: La Mer

additional programming:
Willem Pijper: Piano Concerto (1927)
Neth. Radio Symphony Orchestra / Jac van Steen / Ronald Brautigam (NM Classics 92058)
Bart Visman: Volcans (4th song from Sables, Oxygène)
Limburgs Symphony Orchestra / Ed Spanjaard / Barbara Hannigan (Et’cetera KTC 1378)