Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ein Heldenleben
On tour in Spain with works by Chin, Wagner and Strauss
In Spain, Klaus Mäkelä leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Wagner’s Siegfried-Idyll, Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben and Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza.
The lifeblood of Ein Heldenleben is a lovely violin solo.
Concert programme
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Unsuk Chin
subito con forza (opdrachtcompositie)
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Richard Wagner
Siegfried-Idyll
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Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben, op. 40
Performers
About this concert
Under the baton of its future chief conductor, the Concertgebouw Orchestra perform a programma full of live in Madrid and Barcelona. Wagner surprised his wife Cosima with the ‘Siegfried-Idyll’ on Christmas Day, 1870. Marital love also inspired Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, which he dedicated to the Concertgebouw Orchestra: the lifeblood of this autobiographical work is a lovely violin solo representing the hero’s life partner.
Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza is a declaration of love for the music of Beethoven. It was with this same work that Klaus Mäkelä opened the programme he conducted on his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut in September 2020, when sparks between maestro and orchestra first flew. In January 2024, Unsuk Ching was awarded the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Under the baton of its future chief conductor, the Concertgebouw Orchestra perform a programma full of live in Madrid and Barcelona. Wagner surprised his wife Cosima with the ‘Siegfried-Idyll’ on Christmas Day, 1870. Marital love also inspired Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, which he dedicated to the Concertgebouw Orchestra: the lifeblood of this autobiographical work is a lovely violin solo representing the hero’s life partner.
Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza is a declaration of love for the music of Beethoven. It was with this same work that Klaus Mäkelä opened the programme he conducted on his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut in September 2020, when sparks between maestro and orchestra first flew. In January 2024, Unsuk Ching was awarded the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.