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Joyce DiDonato makes an emotional debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra

15 January 2025Music

Joyce DiDonato descended the Concertgebouw stairs to give the Dutch premiere of one her most beloved works, Jake Heggie’s 2015 orchestral version of Camille Claudel: Into the Fire, for her…

Dutch bells take centre stage at the Concertgebouw

6 January 2025Culture, Music

Rafael Payare and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal travelled to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with some very special luggage: a pair of orchestral bells made by the Eijsbouts foundry in the…

Suave and sophisticated: Mäkelä’s Rachmaninoff hits all the right notes

16 November 2024Music

Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

It’s been a busy few weeks for Klaus Mäkelä. First on tour with the Oslo Philharmonic. Then a quick soirée to the UK for the Rite of Spring with the London Symphony Orchestra…

Augustin Hadelich’s Sibelius soars the heights at the Concertgebouw

18 October 2024Music

Hadelich Plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto in the Concertgebouw

German-American violinist Augustin Hadelich, who grew up in the foothills of rural Tuscany, is most definitely the man of the moment and is quite rightly earning a reputation as one…

The Vienna Phil blows away the cobwebs at the Concertgebouw

26 September 2024Music

Christian Thielemann conducting the Vienna Phil at the Concertgebouw ©Simon Van Boxtel

Fresh from two concerts in Lucerne, the Vienna Philharmonic travelled to the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam to perform Strauss' immensely powerful Ein Heldenleben and Mendelssohn's Third Symphony the "Scottish". I had immense…

Noa Wildschut steps in for Esther Yoo at the Concertgebouw

12 August 2024Music

On a night when it seemed the entire Dutch nation was watching the Netherlands vs England in the semi-finals of the European Football Championship, French conductor Alexandre Bloch brought the Orchestre…

A performance of contradictions: Belgian National Orchestra at the Concertgebouw

30 July 2023Music

Performances at the Concertgebouw hold a certain cachet especially amongst conductors; a fact not lost on the conductor Antony Hermus, who took just that extra moment to bask in the glory…

Schotsheuvel: A great little French bistro in Amsterdam

19 July 2023Food

On the night in question, we were looking for a pre-concert dinner near the Concertgebouw and came across this gem of a place quite by accident. Packed to the rafters,…

Makela’s Concertgebouw Mahler marks the dawn of a new era in Amsterdam

22 August 2022Music

Friday night’s concert in Amsterdam, the first of a series of concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (KCO) and their new Artistic Partner, Klaus Mäkelä conducting Mahler 6, was the hottest…