Cassandra van Agt – Concertzender | Klassiek, Jazz, World en meer

Cassandra van Agt – Concertzender | Klassiek, Jazz, World en meer

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  • Omzwervingen in de Joodse muziek

    Y i d d i s h   s o n g w r i t e r s

    from NL with the participation of : Leo Fuld | Louis Davids | Max van Praag. Producer Cobie Ivens

    1 – L e o   F u l d

    He is one of the most famous interpreters of Yiddish songs. He was born in Rotterdam in 1912. Just before the Second World War he left for the US. He survived the war, but the rest of his family was murdered by the Nazis. After the war Leo Fuld became known as the interpreter of Yiddish evergreens. When he was 80 he returned to the Netherlands where he recorded one more album, The Legend.
    CD. My yiddische mama – Leo Fuld.
    LABEL: Artone, code: ART 2005006, Sony Music Media (2005), code: 4886102. VIDEO


    2 – L o u i s   D a v i d s
    One of the founders of the levenslied was born in Rotterdam in 1883. Louis Davids grew up in a Jewish fairground family and was brought up with a love of singing. In 1909, Louis Davids left for a tour to England where he got ideas for his revue shows in the Netherlands. He translated English songs into Dutch and achieved success with them. With his songs De kleine man (The little man) and Als je voor een dubbeltje geboren bent (If you were born for a dime), Louis expressed the sense of crisis of the Dutch in the thirties. Louis Davids died in 1939, a few months before the Second World War broke out.
    CD. Nostalgisch Nederland : De keuze van Annie de Reuver – Louis Davids.
    LABEL: Nostalgisch Nederland (2008), code: NN001. VIDEO

    3 – M a x   v a n   P r a a g

    During World War II, Max van Praag had to go into hiding because of his Jewish background. He scored many hits in the fifties. Since 1958, he organized the Loosdrecht Jazz Concours annually. He opened a gramophone record store in Utrecht on the Amsterdamsestraatweg and in 1974 a store in the Hoog Catharijne shopping center. However, in the eighties, Max was forced to close his stores. In 1991, he died from Parkinson’s.
    CD. Weet je nog wel oudje? – Max van Praag.
    LABEL: Dureco (1988), code: 840122. VIDEO

    Producer Cobie Ivens

    Met dank aan:

    1 hr
  • De Nacht: Wereld

    C U B A  S P E C I A L  :  Omara Portuondo | Compay Segundo | Carel Kraayenhof | Gloria Estefan | Rubén González | Guillermo Portabales. Producer Cobie Ivens

    Omara Portuondo (1930) an icon in Cuban music, has an impressive career. In 1945 she was part of the Las d’Aida Female Cuarteto and in 1959 her debut solo album Magia Negra was released. She sang with Orquesta Aragón, Chucho Valdés and Maria Bethânia. In 1998 she was part of the renowned Buena Vista Social Club project, which brought her international fame and with which she toured the whole world. Her album Gracias (2009) even earned her a Latin Grammy award for Best Contemporary Tropical album.

    CD. Singles – Omara Portuondo.
    LABEL: Malanga (2007), code: MM 803. VIDEO

    Compay Segundo (1907) shone on the album Buena by Buena Vista Social Club. His solo album Calle Salud was recorded in early 1999 in studios in Havana, Paris and Malaga. On this album he sings old compositions by Francisco Repilado, Carlos Gardél, Enrique Jorrin and Miguel Matamoros. The dance styles on Calle Salud are son (an old Cuban dance in which salsa originated), bolero, cha cha cha and merengue. The music therefore does not differ much from that of Buena Vista Social Club. The collaboration of Charles Aznavour is striking, who sings a translation of Mourir D’Aimer with Compay Segundo.

    CD. Calle Salud – Compay Segundo.
    LABEL: Gasa (1999), code: 3984-275832. VIDEO

    Carel Kraayenhof, With his bandoneon he roams the world and likes to mingle with people. Carel listened to stories from the past and present. African refugees trying to reach Lampedusa. Tula, the Spartacus of Curaçao who, with a thousand slaves, let a cry for freedom be heard. Young musicians in Jujuy (Northern Argentina) without a bandoneon, who play cardboard boxes out of necessity. A tribute to the Jewish writer Ida Vos who wrote the book 32 Tranen, 32 poems for the children of her school class who did not return after the war. These stories inspired Carel Kraayenhof to write new compositions and that is how he came up with the idea for a new theatre show, in which the Argentine Tango and the Cuban Son/Danzón play a role.

    CD. Liberación – Carel Kraayenhof.
    LABEL: Stemra (2014), code: BD2014104. VIDEO

    Gloria Estefan, the title of the album 90 Millas refers to the distance between Cuba and the southernmost point of Florida, where many Cuban refugees live. Gloria composed the music together with her husband and brothers. It is a tribute to her native Cuba. The album features no less than twenty-five guest musicians who have meant a lot to traditional and Cuban or modern Latin music and contains original material and a selection of different Cuban rhythms mixed with Latin American contemporary pop.

    CD. 90 Millas – Gloria Estefan.
    LABEL: Burgundy (2007), code: 88697-143662. VIDEO

    Rubén González was a Cuban pianist. In 1943 he released his first recording, which quickly made him famous in Cuba and the rest of Latin America. Since the sixties he played for 25 years in Havana in the band of Enrique Jorrin. In 1996 Rubén González came with a new solo album Introducing…Rubén González. In 1997 he played on an album Buena Vista Social Club. The director Wim Wenders made a biographical film under the same name about Rubén González and his colleagues, which made him famous in the rest of the world. He performed for the last time in Mexico and Cuba in 2002. He died in December 2003.

    CD. The Cuban heroes collection – Rubén González.
    LABEL: Union Square Music (2008), code: 0698458115881. VIDEO

    Guillermo Portabales was born in 1911 in Cuba. He was a singer, songwriter and popularized the guajira style. At the beginning of his musical career he played various styles, such as cancion, tango and bolero, but he soon noticed that guajira was the most popular with his audience. In 1940 Guillermo Portabales performed regularly in Cuba and the United States of America. In the 1960s he discreetly expressed poetic thoughts in his music about the revolution that was taking place in his home country Cuba. Guillermo Portabales eventually died at the age of 59 in a car accident.

    CD. Promesas de un campesino – Guillermo Portabales.
    LABEL: Tum (2000), code: TCD 804. VIDEO

    Producer Cobie Ivens

    Thanks to:

    6 hr
  • Oriënt Express

    I n d i a – f u s i o n : Dohl Foundation  |  Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Julian Lage  |  Sitardust. Producer Cobie Ivens

    Happy Valentines Day 

    D o h l   F o u n d a t i o n

    This is the first Dhol Foundation studio album by Johnny Kalsi and his students from the Dhol Foundation institute in London. The Dhol drum is a traditional percussion instrument from the Punjab province in northern India, where Johnny Kalsi comes from. In London he experimented with dance beats and electronic music, which he mixes with the traditional bhangra style in his albums.
    Their music has been heard in Hollywood films such as Gangs of New York and The Incredible Hulk, and they have collaborated with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence.
    CD. Big drum : small world – Dhol Foundation.
    LABEL: Shakti (2001), code: 8105882. VIDEO

    C h a r l e s   L l o y d, Z a k i r   H u s s a i n, J u l i a n   L a g e

    With Sacred Thread saxophonist Charles Lloyd concludes his Trio Of Trios: three albums with three different trios led by him. The contribution of the Indian tabla player and singer Zakir Hussain is particularly valuable in this respect. For example, the song Kuti is based on a composition by Hussain. Lloyd knows his way around the atmosphere and form of Indian classical music very well and approaches the sound of a bansuri with his transverse flute solo. The third and youngest member of the trio, guitarist Julian Lage, once again proves himself to be an all-rounder. With a tasteful combination of virtuosity and sensitivity he supports Lloyd and Hussain.
    CD. Trios : Sacred thread – Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Julian Lage.
    LABEL: Blue Note Records (2022), code: 602445266876. VIDEO

    S i t a r d u s t

    Sitardust is a Belgian-Indian musical journey. It is a journey for the sitar that, starting from Varanasi in Northern India, first travels south to meet the refined rhythms of Bangalore, and then heads west to Brussels, where it mixes with European jazz, classical and folk flavours. Sitardust was founded in 2012 and performs regularly in Belgium and sometimes in India. The album was released at the end of 2016 by the label Homerecords.
    CD. Sitardust.
    LABEL: Home Records (2016), code: 4446754. VIDEO

    Producer Cobie Ivens

    Thanks to:

    1 hr
  • Oriënt Express

    Traditioneel-klassieke muziek uit Iran en Afghanistan van:

    Z a r b a n g   +   G h a z a l   +   U s t a d   F a r i d a   M a h w a s h.


    Call to Love – Z a r b a n g.
    Zarbang, bestaande uit de beste percussionisten uit Iran en Afghanistan, is een groep die zich laat beïnvloeden door tribale ritmes en laat horen dat ze hun instrumenten kunnen aanpassen aan verschillende culturen, terwijl ze trouw blijven aan de essentie van elk instrument. Met zijn dynamische, meditatieve en introverte esthetische benadering raakt Zarbang alle veranderende situaties aan, beginnend bij soefi- en Perzische ritmes.
    CD. Call to love – Zarbang.
    LABEL: Hermes (2012), code: HER-044. VIDEO


    As night falls on the silk road – G h a z a l.
    Ghazal is een band gevormd door de Koerdisch-Iraanse kamencheh-speler Kayhan Kalhor, de Indiase sitarspeler Shujaat Khan en de Indiase tabla-speler Swapan Chaudhuri. Samen spelen ze muziek die Noord-Indiase en Perzische klassieke en licht klassieke tradities combineert.
    Ghazal werd in 2004 genomineerd voor de Grammy Award voor Best Traditional World Music Album.
    CD. As night falls on the silk road – Ghazal.
    LABEL: Shanachie (1998), code: 66011. VIDEO


    Radio Kaboul – U s t a d   F a r i d a   M a h w a s h.
    Farida Mahwash is een van de populairste radiozangeressen uit Afghanistan. Voor haar eigen veiligheid zocht ze in 1991, na een verblijf in Pakistan, politiek asiel in de Verenigde Staten. Haar titel Ustad (‘meester’), vrij uitzonderlijk voor een vrouw, kreeg ze al in 1977. De Taliban gooide in zijn allesvernietigende regime de meeste opnames met haar muziek na haar vertrek op de brandstapel. Zelf doet ze naar eigen zeggen niet aan politiek: ‘Kunst’, zo zegt ze zelf, ‘gaat over affectie en vriendelijkheid’. Op haar recente CD Radio Kaboul brengt Farida Mahwash hommages aan de componisten met wie ze ooit samenwerkte.
    CD. Radio Kaboul, Ustad Farida Mahwash.
    LABEL: Accords Croisés (2003), code: ACC 100. VIDEO

    Producer: Cobie Ivens

    Met dank aan:

    1 hr
  • Terra Incognita

    Nr: 202. Een luisterpost in het vrijwel onbekende muzikale landschap van de onafhankelijke alternatieve blues-, folk- en pop-labels. Speciale editie: Textures 13.

    Een ontdekkingsreis voor de nieuwsgierige muziekliefhebber met een brede interesse. Ontspan het Oor en ontdek de Luister.

    Aflevering 202.

    Elke vijfde woensdag van de maand is het tijd voor de literaire bijlage van Terra Incognita genaamd Textures. In Textures wordt de muziek afgewisseld door poëzie of korte stukken tekst.

    In dit uur aandacht voor het jongste literaire genre: het ZKV, oftewel het Zeer Korte Verhaal. We gaan luisteren naar: ‘Voermans en ik’, een serie korte teksten geschreven door Pauline Pisa. Een aantal daarvan verscheen eerder op Facebook en nu, omlijst door sfeervolle muziek uit allerlei windstreken, ontstaat een lichtvoetig, muzikaal luisterspel. Laat je verrassen!

    Pauline Pisa

     

    Speellijst:

    1. Chapelier Fou

    Books, 02:27

    Kalia

    Louis Warynski, 2016

               tekst: Stadsvlucht

    2. Sébastien Gisbert, Laurent Dury

    Evolution, 02:21

    Percussion Stories 2 – Evolution

    Art Melodies, 2024 

              tekst: Oostenrijk

    3. Die Wilde Jagd

    Gnafna Nie, 02:14

    ophio

    Bureau B, 2023

               tekst: Etmaal

    4. Koki Nakano, Yael Naim

    Howling, 02:52

    Single

    NØ FØRMAT, 2024

    5. Kat Frankie, BODIES                                                                       14:31

    How to Be Your Own Person, 03:07

    Carmen

    Groenland Records, 2024

              tekst: Snoepen

    6. The Barr Brothers

    Static Orphans, 02:05

    Sleeping Operator

    Secret City Records, 2014

              tekst: Parijs

    7. Cabane, Lonny

    Savoir Taire, 01:50

    Le Chemin des tempêtes, Pt. 1

    Cabane Records, 2024

    8. Third Coast Percussion, Philip Glass, Constance Volk

    Aguas da Amazonia: Negro River, 02:51

    Single

    Rockwell Records, 2024

              tekst: Nadoen

    9. Jay-Jay Johanson                                                                           27:16

    Heard Somebody Whistle, 03:04

    Kings Cross

    Kuroneko Media, 2019

              tekst: Twee-eenheid

    10. Jonnine

    As You Sleep By My Feet, 03:46

    Single

    Do You Have Peace?, 2023

              tekst: Kleurboek

    11. Zalfa

    Law Ma, 02:34

    Fi Dam

    Zalfa & We Are Unique! Records, 2019

              tekst: Heddy Lester

    12. Tarwater

    Be Late, 03:38

    Dwellers On The Threshold

    Kitty-Yo, 2002

              tekst: Bloesje

    13. Thibault Cauvin, -M-                                                                       44:14

    les mots blues, 02:49

    L’heure miroir au Nouveau Siècle

    Wagram Music, 2024

              tekst: Type Diploma

    14. Vök

    Vio Viokum, 03:32

    Tension

    Nettwerk Music Group, 2014

              tekst: Wasgoed

    15. Nils Wülker, Arne Jansen

    Hurt, 04:31

    Closer

    Warner Music Group Germany, 2023

              tekst: Wandelen

    16. Mari Jürjens

    Kõrradikōtak, 02:10

    …aga samlas…

    Mari Jürjens, 2024

     

    Terra Incognita wordt elke derde en vierde (en eventueel vijfde) woensdag van de maand uitgezonden om 22.00 uur. Wil je reageren? Stuur dan een mail naar: [email protected].

     

    Alle eerdere afleveringen van Textures vind je hier.

     

     

     

     

     

    1 hr
  • Omzwervingen in de Joodse muziek

    WANDERING AROUND JEWISH MUSIC : Classical compositions by the Russian Mikhail Gnesin, Klezmer by the Shtetl Band Amsterdam, Ladino by the Bosnian Flory Jagoda & Family.


    Mikhail Gnesin.
    The tribute to the Jewish songs and chamber music of Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin (1883–1957), is a publication of the Dutch Foundation for Jewish Music Projects, founded on 27 March 2001 in Amsterdam.
    The music of Mikhail Gnesin was a find, his music was virtually unknown in the West. Even in Russia it was not very well known, where Jewish music was forgotten during the repressive Stalinist regime.
    CD. Tribute to Mikhail Gnesin : Songs and chamber music by Mikhail Gnesin.
    LABEL: Joodse Muziek Projecten (2009), code: JMP CD 003. VIDEO

    Shtetl Band Amsterdam.

    Traditional Klezmer pieces combined with new compositions in the village-klezmer style. Shtetl Band Amsterdam has developed in recent years into a treasurer of the original klezmer music enriched with the clarinetist Christian Dawid. In the meantime, The Amsterdam Klezmer Society has taken over the torch and continues this music genre with several musicians: Bert Vos (violinist and bandleader), Lefke Wang (violinist and poykenist), Eva van de Poll (cellist, zagist and poykenist), Elianne van Ee (accordionist and vocals), Shura Lipovsky (guest soloist: vocals) and Christian Dawid (guest soloist and clarinetist).
    CD. Roots and shoots – Shtetl Band Amsterdam.
    LABEL: Xango music (2015), code: SBA2015. VIDEO

    Flory Jagoda & Family.

    She grew up in a family of singers. Her childhood, in a mountain village outside Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina, was filled with songs sung in Ladino—the language passed down by Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition—that told of the loves, lives, and rituals of her community. With the horrors of World War II, all that changed. Flory Jagoda and her parents were the only survivors of the 42-member Altaras family. Since then, Flory, a 2002 NEA National Heritage grantee, has dedicated her professional life to composing, performing, and teaching songs that preserve her memories of that lost life. Her songs, sung in Ladino, echo the Spanish and Bosnian melodies and rhythms of her past.
    CD. La nona kanta – The grandmother sings Flory Jagoda.
    LABEL: Global Village (1992), code: CD 155. VIDEO

    Thanks to:

    1 hr
  • Onbekend is Onbemind?

    Le Grand Adieu van Cassandra van Agt: Richard Wagner en Charles Ives.

    In deze aflevering neemt Cassandra van Agt na ruim 25 jaar afscheid van de Concertzender. Centraal in deze aflevering staan werken van Richard Wager en Charles Ives, twee componisten waar Cassandra dol op was.

    Speellijst:

    • Wagner. Voorspel Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg  & slot ouverture Rienzi.
      • Ives. Universe Symphony, versie  Larry Austin
        • Ives. The Unanswered Question (toegift).

          •  

          1:  Filharmonisch Orkest van Oslo o.l.v. Mariss Jansons.

          2 en 3:  Filharmonisch Orkest van Cincinetti o.l.v. Gerhard Samuel.

          1 hr
        • DreamScenes

          “Taepyongga (Song Of Great Peace)”

          Een ononderbroken mix van ambient soundscapes, experimentele electronica en modern-klassieke muziek.Tracklist:

            • 00:00 DreamScenes – Intro (Susanna)
                • 00:31 Saba Alizadeh – Clamour
                  Temple Of Hope, 2025, 30M Records
                    • 03:10 Peter James – The End Of Night
                      Homework – Year 9, 2024, Taâlem
                        • 08:16 Claire Rousay – II
                          The Bloody Lady, 2024, Viernulvier Records
                            • 12:16 Park Jiha – Blown Leaves
                              All Living Things, 2025, tak:til/Glitterbeat
                                • 15:48 Michael Stearns – Morris Dreams Of A Past Life
                                  Purr24, 2024, Projekt Records
                                    • 19:53 Ben Lukas Boysen – Mere
                                      Alta Ripa, 2024, Erased Tapes
                                        • 22:15 James Bernard – Mars Rain (edit)
                                          Past/Present 2024 Compilation, 2024, Past Inside The Present
                                            • 25:14 Clint Mansell – Red Light
                                              Love Lies Bleeding OST, 2024, A24 Music
                                                • 27:14 Yttriphie – Absrpt-Nline
                                                  An Extremely Slow Motion Explosion, 2025, Projekt Records (release Jan 24)
                                                    • 32:09 Sara Persico – Blue Box
                                                      Sphaîra, 2025, Subtext
                                                        • 33:20 Cameron MacNair – New Born Old
                                                          To Make The Body Glow, 2025, Dragon’s Eye Recordings
                                                            • 35:52 Haepaary – Taepyeongga
                                                              Guruguru Brain Wash 2, 2024, Guruguru Brain
                                                                • 40:13 Come Le Onde – La Voce Del Vento
                                                                  L’immensa Solitudine Delle Montagne, 2024, Oscarson
                                                                    • 43:40 Small Things On Sundays – Moonship (edit)
                                                                      Guide, 2023, self-released
                                                                        • 47:06 Alva Noto – Xerrox Sans Nom II
                                                                          Xerrox Vol. V, 2024, Noton
                                                                            • 51:14 William St. Hugh – Scintilla
                                                                              Our Better Selves, 2024, Self-released
                                                                                • 55:30 Saba Alizadeh – Plain Of The Free
                                                                                  Temple Of Hope, 2025, 30M Records
                                                                                    • 59:01 DreamScenes – Outro (Dean Hurley)

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                                                                                      Taepyongga (Koreaans): ‘Song Of Great Peace’

                                                                                      ‘Plain Of The Free’ ends with cries of the people as they demand their right to water during the “Uprising of the Thirsty” in the city of Susangerd (Iran) in 2021  


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                                                                                    • Oriënt Express

                                                                                      Music from TUVA by Sainkho Namtchylak, Eva Kanalas & Géza Fábri, Igor Koshkendey.

                                                                                      S a i n k h o   N a m t c h y l a k.

                                                                                      Sainkho was born in a small gold mining town in Tuva. Her grandparents were nomads and her parents were school teachers. She studied music at the local college and in Moscow to continue her music studies there. She also immersed herself in various Siberian traditions and in Tuvan and Mongolian throat and overtone singing. In 1988 Sainkho started working with various musicians from the Soviet Union, with the aim of mixing traditional ethnic elements with avant-garde styles. She was a key member of the ensemble Tri-O. ​​Their music was a mixture of exotic melodies, throat and overtone singing, jazz, ambient etc.
                                                                                      CD. Naked spirit – Sainkho Namtchylak.
                                                                                      LABEL: Amiata (1998), code: ARNR 2298. VIDEO

                                                                                      E v a   K a n a l a s   &   G é z a   F á b r i.

                                                                                      Eva began studying the music of Transylvania in the late 1980s, but soon began collaborating with jazz composers and folk musicians from areas far removed from her Hungarian roots, including Tuva in Siberia and the Urals. During her travels, she learned techniques from fellow composers and artists, particularly the breathing methods used by Siberian shamans and Canadian Eskimos for their ritual songs. In recent years, she has been working on specific voices and interpretations under her mythological name, Ojanna, and was in the Netherlands to present her ethnographic research as a documentary film. The songs are Csangó folk songs from Transylvania, as well as renditions and interpretations from Siberian and Uralian Tuvan, Bashkir, Altai and Khakas cultures.
                                                                                      CD. Túl a vizen – Éva Kanalas & Géza Fábri.
                                                                                      LABEL: PAN (2000), code: PAN 180 CD. VIDEO

                                                                                      I g o r   K o s h k e n d e y.

                                                                                      The autonomous republic of Tuva, in the south of Siberia, is mainly known for its famous throat singing or overtone singing (khoomei) that this country is home to. A nice anecdote: traditionally it was believed that if women practiced khoomei they would become infertile, fortunately this popular belief is starting to wane and more and more women are practicing khoomei. In addition to Khoomei, the Tuvans have three other typical singing styles, of which Igor Koshkendey gives examples. He is accompanied by various instruments: a lute with two strings, a violin with two strings and a trapezoid harmonic sound box, a flute and a drum used by shamans during their rites.
                                                                                      CD. Music from Tuva – Igor Koshkendey.
                                                                                      LABEL: Amiata (1998), code: ARNR 1497. VIDEO

                                                                                      Produced by Cobie Ivens

                                                                                      Thanks to:

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