Annual Gala
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mussorgski’s Pictures at an Exhibition
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will again be hosting a lavish Annual Gala in a festively decorated Concertgebouw. Klaus Mäkelä will show listeners just how colourful and expressive symphonic music can be.
Maurice Ravel, a veritable orchestral wizard, brings Mussorgsky’s tone paintings to life with his sumptuous orchestration.
Concert programme
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Hawar Tawfiq
M.C. Escher’s Imagination (commission)
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Manuel de Falla
Noches en los jardines de España
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Performers
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Klaus Mäkelä
conductor, artistic partner
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Javier Perianes
piano
About this concert
The Concertgebouw Orchestra presents its festive Annual Gala concert for loyal audience members, friends, and donors. The Annual Gala starts with a reception at 19.30, and the fashionable after-party goes on until midnight.
Dress code: black tie.
Guests are welcomed to a reception at 19.30, after which they will be ushered into the Main Hall for a uniquely memorable conducted by our artistic partner and future chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä. He will lead the orchestra in three colourful works. The concert opens with M.C. Escher’s Imagination by the Dutch-Iraqi composer Hawar Tawfiq. Next, Manuel de Falla’s symphonic impressions of Spanish gardens at night will be followed by Mussorgsky’s celebrated Pictures at an Exhibition. In it, Maurice Ravel, a veritable orchestral wizard, brings Mussorgsky’s tone paintings to life with his sumptuous orchestration.
After-party - After the concert, you are invited to partake in the tantalising follow-up programmes in the foyers of the Concertgebouw. There will be ample opportunity to mingle with other guests, the conductor, soloists, and choir and orchestra members until midnight.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
The Concertgebouw Orchestra presents its festive Annual Gala concert for loyal audience members, friends, and donors. The Annual Gala starts with a reception at 19.30, and the fashionable after-party goes on until midnight.
Dress code: black tie.
Guests are welcomed to a reception at 19.30, after which they will be ushered into the Main Hall for a uniquely memorable conducted by our artistic partner and future chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä. He will lead the orchestra in three colourful works. The concert opens with M.C. Escher’s Imagination by the Dutch-Iraqi composer Hawar Tawfiq. Next, Manuel de Falla’s symphonic impressions of Spanish gardens at night will be followed by Mussorgsky’s celebrated Pictures at an Exhibition. In it, Maurice Ravel, a veritable orchestral wizard, brings Mussorgsky’s tone paintings to life with his sumptuous orchestration.
After-party - After the concert, you are invited to partake in the tantalising follow-up programmes in the foyers of the Concertgebouw. There will be ample opportunity to mingle with other guests, the conductor, soloists, and choir and orchestra members until midnight.
