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Dutch tintinnabulation: Sunday bells resound in the Concertgebouw

By Olga de Kort, 22 September 2015
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“Groot Omroepkoor... perfectly articulated, expressive in dynamics”
Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 20 September 2015
Programme
Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene
Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Rachmaninov, The Bells, for choir and orchestra, Op.35
Performers
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest)
James Gaffigan, Conductor
Marina Rebeka, Soprano
Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor
Andrei Bondarenko, Baritone
Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor)
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Olga de Kort
Olga de Kort
Musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (The Netherlands) studied in Russia (piano, culture sciences), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, organ) where she has lived from 1998. She is active as a music journalist, lecturer in music history and culture and as a freelance musician. She writes for Piano Bulletin, Pianist, Luister, Preludium, De Klank, Het Orgel, Muziek&Liturgie, Kunstzone and Bachtrack. Besides her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a website about Russian music in the Netherlands. At this moment she is working on a book about Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and on a biography of Russian singer Anna El Tour.