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Ben Grosvenor brings moonlit wonder to the Concertgebouw

12 February 2026Posted inMusic
Ben Grosvenor at the Concertgebouw
Ben Grosvenor's programme of Ravel, Beethoven and Schumann attracts a very young crowd to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw

Ben Goldscheider heads to the Concertgebouw

9 February 2026Posted inMusic
Ben Goldscheider feb 2026
Ben Goldscheider is joined by pianist Dénes Várjon, and Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova for Brahms and Benjamin Attahir's new commission

It’s all about the brass: Klaus Mäkelä conducts Bruckner 8

6 February 2026Posted inMusic
Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä and the Concertgebouw Orchestra's dark and intense reading of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony leaves audiences smiling

The Toronto Symphony makes their mark in the Concertgebouw

5 February 2026Posted inMusic
Patricia Kopatchinskaja ;lays the violin
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and soprano Christina Landshamer join Toronto’s finest in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw for Bartók and Mahler

Trio Wildschut, Kruithof, Meeuwsen leave audiences lost for words

21 January 2026Posted inMusic
Trio Wildschut, Kruithof, Meeuwsen leave audiences lost for words
Nikola Meeuwsen, Noa Wildschut and Benjamin Kruithof's piano trio tour the Netherlands with a programme of delicious chamber music

Symphonic Cinema’s latest release LOSS brings in the stars

16 January 2026Posted inCulture, Music
Emma Thompson and Greg Wise
British acting royalty, Emma Thompson and Greg Wise star in Symphonic Cinema’s latest release, LOSS with Dutch National Youth Orchestra

Joshua Bell and the ASMF celebrate the earth’s beauty

14 January 2026Posted inMusic
Joshua Bell plays the violin
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Joshua Bell feature Kevin Puts’ Earth, taking audiences on a musical odyssey

Searching for Paradise: Håkan Hardenberger and the Concertgebouw Orchestra

7 January 2026Posted inMusic
Man playing the trumpet
Håkan Hardenberger and the Concertgebouw Orchesta perform Jorg Widmann’s Trumpet Concerto Towards Paradise in Cologne

Visions of heaven and hell: Wang, Adès and the Concertgebouw Orchestra

17 December 2025Posted inMusic
Concertgebouworkest, Yuja Wang, Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès and Yuja Wang's first collaboration brings Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and the Dutch premiere of his 2019 Inferno

Flying the flag for Elgar: London Philharmonic in Germany

8 December 2025Posted inMusic
Ivan Karizna holding his cello
Amsterdam-based cellist Ivan Karizna replaces injured Sheku-Kanneh Mason for two concerts with the London Philharmonic playing Saint-Saëns and Bloch's Schelomo

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