About this concert
Every year on Christmas Day since 1975, the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Christmas concert has been televised live from the Main Hall – formerly by NOS and Eurovision, and since 1990 by AVRO, now AVROTROS. Traditionally, the Christmas Matinee is the chief conductor’s domain. Bernard Haitink’s Mahler symphonies and Riccardo Chailly’s opera concerts have reached a near-legendary status.
Nowadays, our chief conductor designate Klaus Mäkelä wields the baton on Christmas Day. This time he will conduct an enjoyable concert full of twilight tints, nocturnal whispers and tales from distant lands. Experience the fabulous stories from the One Thousand and One Nights in Rimsky-Korsakov’s sultry Sheherazade , the solo violin running through the work like a golden thread.
Less well-known but just as compelling is the symphonic poem Lydische nacht by Alphons Diepenbrock, who is considered the most important Dutch composer of the late-Romantic period. Who wouldn’t feel for a shepherd all alone in the darkness with his turbulent inner world and the cool, impassive moon…
An enjoyable concert full of twilight tints, nocturnal whispers and tales from distant lands.
