Live! at the Concertgebouw

Join hosts Hans Haffmans and Cynthia Wilson as they present Radio Netherlands' classical
music concert series Live! at the Concertgebouw.

After more than 20 years of radio broadcasts, Live! at the Concertgebouw expanded to
year-round programming with 52 two-hour weekly episodes.  Hans Haffmans this weekly 
series and discuss performances, interviews artists and reflects on Holland's exciting and
diverse classical music world.

Each program has an individual theme, adding enrichment and surprise to the week's concert.
Interviews with artists and commentators are interwoven with the performances, giving
audiences a richer and more informative Live! at the Concertgebouw series.

The new season of Live! at the Concertgebouw includes phenomenal performances by the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Netherlands Radio
Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at Amsterdam's concert hall known round the world for
its exceptional acoustics. 

Highlights this quarter include conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jaap
van Zweden, Neemi Järvi; Ivan Fisher, John Nelson, Alan Gilbert, Kurt Masur, Kenneth
Montgomery, Zubin Mehta and Roman Hofman.  Soloists will include Yefim Bronfman,
Ronald Brautigam, Nelson Freire and Howard Shelley, piano; Ernest Rombout, oboe; Håkan
Hardenberger, trumpet; Vesko Eschkenazy, Janine Jensen, Maxim Rysanov, Isabelle van
Keulen and Leonidas Kavakos, violin, along with the Netherlands Radio Choir, Andreas Scholl,
countertenor, Felipe Rojas, tenor, Piero Terranova, baritone and Anna Caterina Antonacci,
soprano.

For more information please visit Radio Netherlands' website

Listen to the weekly broadcasts:
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Broadcast Schedule

WEEK ONE
Release date:  December 29, 2008
Conductor:  Mariss Jansons
Soloist:  Gil Shaham, violin
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Bruch:   Violin Concerto
R. Strauss:  Eine Alpensinfonie

WEEK TWO
Release date:  January 5, 2009
Conductor:  Valery Gergiev
Soloist:  Kees Hülsmann, violin
Orchestra:  Rotterdam Philharmonic
Tishchenko:  Jaroslavna
Rimski-Korsakov: Shéhérazade

WEEK THREE
Release date:  January 12, 2009
Conductor:  Andris Nelsons
Soloist:  Rafal Blechaz, piano
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Debussy:  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Saint-Saens:  Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

WEEK FOUR
Release date:  January 19, 2009
Conductor:  Jaap van Zweden
Soloists:  Jane Irwin, mezzo-soprano; Netherlands Radio Choir
Orchestra:  Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 1
Elgar:   The Music Makers

WEEK FIVE
Release date:  January 26, 2009
Conductor:  Theo Wolters
Soloists:  J.Y. Thibaudet, piano; Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Messiaen:  Turangalîla Symphony

WEEK SIX
Release date:  February 2, 2009
Conductor:  Zoltán Kocsis
Soloist:  Nikolaj Znaider, violin
Orchestra:  Rotterdam Philharmonic
Debussy/Zender: 5 Preludes
Sibelius:  Violin Concerto
Dvorak:  Symphony No. 3

WEEK SEVEN
Release date:  February 9, 2009
Conductor:  Herbert Blomstedt
Soloists:  Marieke Steenhoek, soprano; Matthijs van de Woerd, baritone
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Nielsen:  Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva
Mendelssohn:  Symphony No. 3, Scottish

WEEK EIGHT
Release date:  February 16, 2009
Conductor:  Ingo Metzmacher
Soloist:  Julia Fischer, violin
Orchestra:  Rotterdam Philharmonic
Mahler:  Blumine
Berg:   Violin Concerto
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 7

WEEK NINE
Release date:  February 23, 2009
Conductor:  Mariss Jansons
Soloist:  Leo van Doeselaar, organ
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Messiaen:  Hymme au Saint-Sacrement
Poulenc:  Organ Concerto
Bruckner:  Symphony No. 3

WEEK TEN
Release date:  March 2, 2009
Conductor:  Valery Gergiev
Soloist:  Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Orchestra:  Rotterdam Philharmonic
Dutilleux:  L'arbre des songes
Mahler:  Symphony No. 7

WEEK ELEVEN
Release date:  March 9, 2009
Conductor:  Mariss Jansons
Soloists:  Tania Kross, mezzo-soprano; Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Beethoven:  Egmont Overture
Beethoven:  Piano Concerto No. 3
Rossini:  Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville
R. Strauss:  Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Falla:   Siete canciones populares españolas

WEEK TWELVE
Release date:  March 16, 2009
Conductor:  Jaap van Zweden
Soloists:  Netherlands Radio Choir
Orchestra:  Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Rihm:   Memoria
Bruckner:  Symphony No. 4

WEEK THIRTEEN
Release date:  March 23, 2009
Conductor:  David Robertson
Soloist:  Enrico Pace, piano
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Keuris:   Antologia
Prokofiev:  Piano Concerto No. 1
Gubaidalina:  new work tba (commissioned by the RCO)
Prokofiev:  Symphony No. 1, Classical

WEEK FOURTEEN
Release date:  March 30, 2009
Conductor:  Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Soloist:  Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Orchestra:  Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Handel:  Arias from Rodelinda and Giulio Cesare
Stravinsky:  Feu d'artifice
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 7

WEEK FIFTEEN
Release date:  April 6, 2009
Conductor:  Esa-Pekka Salonen
Soloist:  Yefim Bronfman, piano
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Salonen:  Piano Concerto
Stravinsky:  The Firebird (complete)

WEEK SIXTEEN
Release date:  April 13, 2009
Conductor:  Jaap van Zweden
Soloists:  Felipe Rojas, tenor; Piero Terranova, baritone; Netherlands Radio Choir
Orchestra:  Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Respighi:  Vetrate di chiesa
Puccini:  Messa di Gloria

WEEK SEVENTEEN
Release date:  April 20, 2009
Conductor:  Iván Fischer
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Bartók:   Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 4, Op. 36

WEEK EIGHTEEN
Release date:  April 27, 2009
Conductor:  Neemi Järvi
Soloists:  Janine Jansen, violin; Maxim Rysanov, violin
Orchestra:  The Hague Philharmonic
Stravinsky:  Apollon musagète
Britten:  Double Concerto
Kancheli:  Double Concerto

WEEK NINETEEN
Release date:  May 4, 2009
Conductor:  Jaap van Zweden
Soloist:  Vesko Eschkenazy, violin
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Wagenaar:  Overture to Cyrano de Bergerac
Barber:   Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Shostakovich:  Symphony No. 5

WEEK TWENTY
Release date:  May 11, 2009
Conductor:  John Nelson
Soloists:  Ronald Brautigam, piano; Ernest Rombout, oboe
Orchestra:  Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Liszt:   Orpheus
Wim Laman:  Canti d'Orfeo
Von Gluck:  Ballet Suite from Orfeo ed Euridice
Beethoven:  Piano Concerto No. 4

WEEK TWENTY-ONE
Release date:  May 18, 2009
Conductor:  lan Gilbert
Soloist:  Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Schubert:  Overture to Rosamunde, D. 644
Brahms:  Violin Concerto, Op. 77
Schumann:  Symphony No. 3, Rhenish

WEEK TWENTY-TWO
Release date:  May 25, 2009
Conductor:  Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Soloist:  Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano
Orchestra:  Rotterdam Philharmonic
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 4
Berlioz:  La mort de Cléopâtre
Berlioz:  Symphonie fantastique

WEEK TWENTY-THREE
Release date:  June 1, 2009
Conductor:  Kurt Masur
Soloist:  Nelson Freire, piano
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Brahms:  Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
Dvo?ák:  Symphony No. 9, From the New World

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR 
Release date:  June 8, 2009
Conductor:  Kenneth Montgomery
Soloists:  Howard Shelley, piano; Isabelle van Keulen, violin
Orchestra:  Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Debussy:  Children's Corner
Martinu:  Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani
Dvo?ák:  Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 8

WEEK TWENTY-FIVE
Release date:  June 15, 2009
Conductor:  Zubin Mehta
Orchestra:  Royal Concertgebouw
Stravinsky:  Symphony in Three Movements
Stravinsky:  The Rite of Spring

WEEK TWENTY-SIX
Release date:  June 22, 2009
Conductor:  Roman Hofman
Soloist:  Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Orchestra:  Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Gershwin:  An American in Paris
Francesconi:  Hard Pace
Shostakovich:  Symphony No. 6