Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä

Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht / Mahler: Symphony No. 1

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Klaus Mäkelä
Klaus Mäkelä © Marco Borggreve / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
  • Doors open 19:00

  • Start 20:00

  • Interval

  • End ca. 22:00

Paths to glory

There are few orchestras that can boast as long a Mahler tradition as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. Even during Gustav Mahler’s lifetime, the orchestra regularly performed his symphonies and helped the composer achieve the fame he enjoys to this day. Klaus Mäkelä, who takes over as the orchestra’s chief conductor in 2027, continues this tradition with a performance of Mahler’s First Symphony. The composer wrote about his work: »It has become so overpowering – it flowed out of me like a mountain stream!«

Also on the programme is Arnold Schönberg’s early work »Verklärte Nacht« for string orchestra, based on Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name. Before Schönberg climbed to the top of the avant-garde and shocked the music world with his twelve-tone music, he wrote deeply Romantic pieces in his younger years, in which he endeavoured to unite the styles of Wagner and Brahms.

Performers

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

conductor Klaus Mäkelä

Programme

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (version for string orchestra)

– Interval –

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D major, »Titan«

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Arnold Schönberg

Klaus Mäkelä

Promoter: HamburgMusik

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