The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra

On the The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra's web page, you can see and hear about the works they are performing. In this video, conductor Wayne Marshall talks about "L'enfant et les sortileges", describing (in English) how the singers and instrumentalists of the orchestra imitate the characters from the tale and bring a child's fantasies to life trhough Ravel's music. Hay Beurskens (in Dutch) gives guided tour gives along the different instruments and demonstrates the wind machine.…

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The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra plays L'enfant et les sortileges by Maurice Ravel.

In the column on the right side of the web page, you'll find links to other short videos which talk about works performed by the orchestra: Brahms, Dvorak, Frank, Gershwin, Glinka, Hayden, Khachaturian, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schmidt, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovitch, Scriabin, and Johann Strauss. All the videos include some English and some Dutch dialogue.

(You can use http://babelfish.yahoo.com to translate the text of the web page.)