Monday, February 8th, 2010
Tags: Beethoven, best, Bosendorfer, classical music, concert, concerti, concerto, concertos, England, great, greatest, Liszt, London, Michael Fine, Michael Francis, pianist, pianists, piano, Pieter de Rooij, Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Schumann, Steinway, Thalberg, Ukrainia, United States, Valentina Lisitsa
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Aruna Sairam
Last saturday, 30 May 2009, BBC Radio 3’s World Routes focused once more on the Darbar South Asian Music Festival 2009 at London’s Southbank Centre, this time highlighting the concert of carnatic star singer Aruna Sairam. I was there too in the Purcell Room in London, it was a fantastic concert! The programme offers large segments of the concert and an interview with Aruna Sairam who explains some of carnatic music’s intricacies. This edition of World Routes is available for ‘on demand’ listening until 6 June 2009. Read more at BBC Radio 3. A must for evryone with an interest in Indian classical music.
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Tags: Aruna Sairam, BBC, Darbar Festival, England, Jameela Siddiqi, London, Lopa Kothari, Pieter de Rooij, raag, Radio 3, raga, singers, World Routes
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
In April 2009 I visited the Darbar Festival in London. Among the great concerts were those featured on Saturday, 23 May 2009, 15:00 on BBC Radio 3. The BBC Radio 3 programme World Routes brings highlights from (more…)
Tags: Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, BBC, Darbar Festival, England, Jameela Siddiqi, London, Lopa Kothari, Pieter de Rooij, raag, Radio 3, raga, Rahul Sharma, santoor, santur, singers, World Routes
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
From early youth I’ve been a great admirer of Sandy Denny’s voice and music.
She’s one of the most legendary singers in the history of english folk music. On April 21st 1978 she died at the age of 31, after a fall down of the stairs, now thirty years ago. She’s once more featured on De Concertzender in a special tribute-broadcast devoted to her work, on Saturday May 10th, in the entire late-night programme De Nacht, from1:00am-7:00am, dutch time (!). You can listen online via internet. For me and evry other devoted admirer of her work it’s a not-to-be-missed transmission. On De Concertzender-website there’s a complete playlist. Another fine example of the unique musical journeys brought to the listener by De Concertzender. If you’ll miss it you can always listen on demand afterwards. This is very simple, but if still not clear you can turn to De Concertzender’s ’how to listen on demand’-explanation.
Happy listening!
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Tags: Concertzender, Engeland, England, folk, Pieter de Rooij, Sandy Denny, World Music
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
It’s been more than a week now that I’ve had a great time in Leicester, England, as a visitor of the Darbar Festival 2008. (more…)
Tags: Ajay Joglekar, Darbar Festival, England, festivals, gharana, Indian classical music, Irshad Khan, Kaushiki Chakrabarty, Leicester, Pieter de Rooij, Purbayan Chatterjee, raag, raga, Rakesh Chaurasia, Sanju Sahai, United Kingdom, Yogesh Samsi
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