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At home with you for Christmas

Watch and listen to the orchestra in your own home this Christmas. We are very disappointed about not being able to perform live for you at Christmas this year. With earlier recordings of special concerts, though, we do hope to be near you via radio and television.
. image: Milagro Elstak
. image: Milagro Elstak

Christmas Day

2.00 p.m. on NPO Radio 4
Recording of the last concert in which Bernard Haitink led the Concertgebouw Orchestra, on 27 January 2019.
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Mozart – Symphony No. 40
Brahms – Symphony No. 4

3.00 p.m. on NPO 2
Encore broadcast of the 2020 Christmas Matinee.
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 (‘Pastoral’)
Debussy – La mer

Click here for a conversation between Klaus Mäkelä and Dominic Seldis

26 December

2.00–4.30 p.m. on NPO Radio 4
Recording of the concert given on 17 December.
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin
Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1
Schumann – Symphony No. 4

Recording of the concert given on 12 December.
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Sibelius – Symphony No. 7
Sibelius – Symphony No. 6

Wishing you and yours happy holidays, and we very much hope to see you soon at one of our concerts in the new year.