About this concert
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in two twentieth-centiry classics. In 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet music for Le sacre du printemps shook the world of music to its core. After a famously riotous concert in Paris, this innovative work quickly assumed its rightful place on the concert stage. Stravinsky’s bold sound collages, pounding, angular rhythms and sharp contrasts were not only ultramodern but also very catchy. And The Rite of Spring , as it’s known in English, continues to capture the hearts of successive generations of music lovers.
The French master pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is back to perform his compatriot Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5. Composed in Luxor, this ‘Egyptian’ piano concerto is brimming with the impressions made on the composer by his many travels. Hailing from Iceland, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir is fast becoming one of the most successful composers of the century. Her music is of an unearthly, mystical beauty.
Stravinsky’s bold sound collages, pounding, angular rhythms and sharp contrasts were not only ultramodern but also very catchy.
