If the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is to continue to play a role as one of the world’s leading orchestras, it needs donors, corporate partners and funds. Now more than ever, the Concertgebouw Orchestra needs your support, too.
Video - ‘When you are able to listen, to feel the atmosphere, and to bring a little part of yourself to this atmosphere which was already created before you have to play. That's when the magic happens.’
The musicians were seated on the house floor, forming a large circle around conductor Iván Fischer, with the audience interspersed among them. This is how the music sounded from within the orchestra.
The Spanish-Dutch filmmaker Carmen Cobos made a beautiful documentary about the percussion and timpani section of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Premiere is on February 8.
'I heard the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the first time when I was still a student. When the job of double bass player came open I had to drop everything. I had to apply.'
What’s the sound of Bruckner’s ‘Symphony no. 0’? Do you recognise music by Willem Pijper, Gustav Mahler, Bernard Zweers, or one of the other 17 composers immortalised on the balconies of the Concertgebouw's Main Hall? Take the quiz!
The acclaimed conductor and Brahms expert Sir John Eliot Gardiner says Johannes Brahms’s music sounds as if it spontaneously springs to life.
