Concerts with works by

Antonio Vivaldi

A Baroque Christmas with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

The Sunday Morning Concert brings you wonderful and much-loved compositions, performed by top musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. Enjoy the most beautiful music in the morning! You can make your Sunday complete by enjoying a delicious post-concert lunch in restaurant LIER.The Royal Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustics and varied programme. Attend a concert and have an experience you will never forget. Come and enjoy inspiring music in the beautiful surroundings of the Main Hall or the intimate Recital Hall.

Noa Wildschut plays Vivaldi's and Piazzolla's Four Seasons

The SummerConcerts powered by VriendenLoterij presents two months of wonderful concerts, from classical to jazz and from pop to film music. Top musicians from the Netherlands and around the world bring you all your favourite classical pieces, as well as video game music and hits from Broadway musicals.We also present a host of young talent in our summer concerts, including youth orchestras from Greece, Australia and Cuba, and top young classical soloists. After many of the concerts, we offer a meet-and-greet with the artists in an informal setting, or an afterparty with DJ in the Entrance Hall. In one of the world’s finest concert halls, there’s something for everyone this summer at The Concertgebouw!

Original sound: Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante

A journey through the diversity of European baroque music: the Europa Galante ensemble on an exciting journey with its programme Europe on the move. The members of the ensemble, founded and led by Fabio Biondi, see themselves as cosmopolitans with Italian roots. “With our Italianità, we show that we live in a Europe that is, fortunately, both united and full of differences,” says Biondi. Europa Galante has played its way to the forefront of the early music scene with its passionate, lively music-making, and has rescued many musical treasures from oblivion.

in bloom

Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra

Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra

Vivaldi - Die vier Jahreszeiten

Experience all four seasons at once with a Vivaldi concert featuring "Le quattro stagioni" and other masterpieces. The first half celebrates diverse European classical music. The Dresden Residence Orchestra, led by Prof. Igor Malinovsky, comprises promising musicians. The orchestra performs a wide repertoire, from Baroque to modern, specializing in transcriptions and presenting orchestral works in solo settings. Since 2013, they have performed over a thousand concerts in their "Gala Concerts" series at the Dresden Zwinger.

Tango Fenesta

Themes of farewell, grief, and despair run through this semi-staged concert, leading to a transformation of hope and happiness. The Gürzenich Orchestra ensemble combines string quartet sounds with accordionist Marko Kassl, immersing mezzo-soprano Ursula Hesse von den Steinen's voice in new colors. The program spans a musical cosmos, from Renaissance music to avant-garde Salvatore Sciarrino, baroque opera arias, Billie Eilish, and Astor Piazolla's tango.

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Michael Spyres. Il Pomo d’Oro Tenore assoluto

Michael Spyres's golden voice effortlessly produces exquisite high notes, explores rich depths, and utilizes the countless timbres of his three-octave range in a spectacular baroque bravura program. His virtuosity rivals that of the castrati, with daring leaps and coloraturas, yet also celebrates lyrical moments and features treasures by forgotten masters like Gaetano Latilla and Antonio Mazzoni. Il Pomo d’Oro joins Spyres on this fiery vocal journey, contributing instrumental gems. An artist talk with Anselm Cybinski follows at the festival center.

Hamburger Orchestergemeinschaft / Cornelia Monske / Wolf Tobias M. Müller

The Hamburger Orchestergemeinschaft e.V. has existed since 1904 and is thus the oldest amateur symphony orchestra in Hamburg. Today it performs at least two concerts a year and gives young, very talented conductors and soloists the opportunity to gain experience with orchestras and public performances in large concert halls.

Musikpreis der deutschen Wirtschaft Ensemble Resonanz Finalkonzert

Seit 1953 fördert der Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft junge, aufstrebende Talente der klassischen Musik. Der Musikpreis soll dabei zu Beginn einer Musikkarriere als kraftvolle Unterstützung dienen und richtet sich an herausragende Instrumentalisten*innen und Sänger*innen unter 30 Jahren, die im deutschsprachigen Raum leben und mit einer eigenständigen künstlerischen Stimme Brücken zum Publikum bauen. Der im Jahr 2024 neu ausgerichtete Musikpreis der deutschen Wirtschaft umfasst nicht nur das Preisgeld in Höhe von 15.000 Euro, sondern vor allem Auftrittsmöglichkeiten bei renommierten Partnerfestivals im Rahmen der „Kulturkreis-Tournee“. Zu den Partnerfestivals gehören neben dem Heidelberger Frühling das Beethovenfest Bonn, die Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, die Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, das Lucerne Festival sowie das Rheingau Musik Festival. Beim Finalkonzert erhalten die drei Finalist*innen die Möglichkeit, sich sowohl der Jury als auch dem breiten Publikum des Festivals zu präsentieren. Dabei werden sie vom Ensemble Resonanz begleitet. Die Jury besteht aus den Intendant:innen und künstlerischen Leiter:innen der Partnerfestivals, Fachberatern sowie dem Musikgremium und der Vertretung der Geschäftsstelle des Kulturkreises.Konzert ohne PauseFinalist*innen Tabea Wink Blockflöte Clarissa Bevilacqua Violine Jonas Müller BaritonDie Finalist*innen werden begleitet vom Ensemble Resonanz unter Dirigent Gregor A. Mayrhofer.Jury Thorsten Schmidt, Anselm Cybinski (Heidelberger Frühling) Steven Walter, Dr. Annette Semrau (Beethovenfest Bonn) Ursula Haselböck (Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Christiane Weber (Lucerne Festival) Maria Luisa Villena-Ossa (Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg) Michael Herrmann, Timo Buckow (Rheingau Musik Festival) Prof. Nils Mönkemeyer (Hochschule für Musik und Theater München) Prof. Steven Sloane (Universität der Künste Berlin) Rodger Masou (Geschäftsführung des Kulturkreises) Musikgremium des Kulturkreises (Vorsitzender Prof. Dr. Tobias Wollermann)

Pleistozän

The Arctic is an alien habitat, a magnet for travellers, researchers and adventurers. And in the meantime, the continent has become a symbol of climate change. In the innovative scientific concert entitled »Pleistozän« (Pleistocene – the name of the last great ice age), geographer Dr André Baumeister takes the audience on a great journey through time illustrating the development of this unique habitat. He shows pictures and films, reports on his journeys along the Norwegian coast to the upper Arctic, Spitsbergen and the east coast of Greenland – and brings the beauty and fragility of the Arctic to life. An orchestra plays works to accompany the film, including music by Australian composer Nigel Westlake, who himself ventured onto the eternal ice with his »Antarctica Suite« of 1991.

Maurice Steger. Emőke Baráth. Zürcher Kammerorchester Barock auf Speed

Maurice Steger, a multi-talented recorder player, conductor, educator, and advocate for early music, joins the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and soprano Emőke Baráth. Together they present a program of well-known and lesser-known Baroque gems, featuring both arias and instrumental music, promising a delightful listening experience. A post-concert discussion with Anselm Cybinski will take place at the festival center.

NDR Barock / Dorothee Oberlinger / Hansjörg Albrecht

With Dorothee Oberlinger, the International Bach Festival Hamburg has invited a real shooting star for early music. The recorder player and conductor is one of today’s leading international figures in the field of early music and has been honoured with numerous national and international music awards. She is coming to the International Bachfest Hamburg 2025 with very different works in her luggage.

Vivaldi meets Piazzolla

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" enjoys immense popularity, portraying nature's events and moods through vivid musical language. Composed 300 years ago, the context has shifted, particularly with climate change. Astor Piazzolla's "Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas" focuses on human life in Buenos Aires. The Hamburg Stage Ensemble, a group of young musicians, aims to connect with audiences through intimate performances without a conductor.

Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie Hamburg

The Neue Philharmonie Hamburg was founded in 2003 by freelance professional musicians from all over the world. Since then, the orchestra has established and maintained a leading position in the northern German music scene. It sees itself as a dynamic orchestra that can be expanded from smaller chamber orchestras to a large symphony orchestra with choir.

Guest performance

Long Night of the Theaters: Concerts!

Attention: Tickets for this event will be available at a later date through the 'Long Night of the Theaters'.

Maestro Jules Kingsday Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons revealed (Dutch spoken)

The Concertgebouw’s famous Main Hall is one of the best concert halls in the world, well-known for its exceptional acoustics and special atmosphere. In the Main Hall, you will feel history. Here, Gustav Mahler conducted his own compositions, as did Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his own piano concertos in the Main Hall. This is also where musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yehudi Menuhin gave legendary performances. Right up to now, the Main Hall offers a stage to the world’s best orchestras and musicians. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Main Hall for yourself!

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Four seasons

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

So much can be captured: what is known as early music (literally, »old music« in German) has long since no longer only been in the hands of the old guard, who did important pioneering work. More and more young artists, trained in specialised degree programmes, are flocking onto the stages of this world to revive the music of the past few centuries in fresh interpretations. One of the current stars on this scene is French baroque violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, who – following his performance in the Elbphilharmonie »Fast Lane« series – you can now experience with his own ensemble Le Consort. On the programme is one work that needs no introduction: Antonio Vivaldi’s »Four Seasons«. The collection of four violin concertos portraying the seasons is one of the earliest and most famous examples of programme music – and surely one of the most popular works of all in the history of music. De Swarte now skilfully combines it in his programme with other concertos and overtures by Vivaldi and his contemporaries – and so makes the seasons appear in a new guise.

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Vivaldi's Four Seasons

The Concertgebouw’s famous Main Hall is one of the best concert halls in the world, well-known for its exceptional acoustics and special atmosphere. In the Main Hall, you will feel history. Here, Gustav Mahler conducted his own compositions, as did Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his own piano concertos in the Main Hall. This is also where musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yehudi Menuhin gave legendary performances. Right up to now, the Main Hall offers a stage to the world’s best orchestras and musicians. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Main Hall for yourself!

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Chamber Concert

The musicians of the Munich baroque ensemble L’Accademia Giocosa are considered experts of historical performance practice in the German-speaking world. The ensemble was founded in 2010 by members of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and freelance artists from the early music scene with the aim of presenting the diverse sounds of the 17th and 18th centuries on original instruments and in a lively and engaging way – “giocoso” – as well as reintroducing forgotten works. For this chamber concert, L’Accademia Giocosa will present musical gems by Antonio Vivaldi, Luigi Boccherini, Joan Baptista Pla, Francesco Durante, and Georg Philipp Telemann that perfectly complement Sir Simon Rattle’s new Baroque initiative.

Passeggiata Veneziana

Venice Baroque Orchestra, photo: Luca Valenta Although Venice boasts the famous historic La Fenice theatre, it yearns for the lost buildings where the early drammi per musica were staged. Some time ago, an initiative arose to restore there the world’s first public opera house, San Cassiano, which made opera – previously known only to the nobility – accessible to anyone who could afford a ticket. San Cassiano is set to attract locals and visitors once again, becoming a centre for Baroque opera staged in ‘historically informed’ performance. The orchestra that will take up residence in the reconstructed theatre will be the famous Venice Baroque Orchestra, directed by its founder, Andrea Marcon, an eminent expert on early keyboard instruments. During our Warsaw concert, the artists, including outstanding virtuosos of singing (Núria Rial) and mandolin (Avi Avital), will present impressions of the Venetian soundscape, experienced during an imaginary walk through the Italian city. They will perform, among other things, instrumental concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, the sounds of which could be heard by passers-by from the interiors of Venetian palaces, churches and theatres, as well as popular songs of the gondoliers, the so-called canzoni da battello, which travellers have delighted in for centuries, often writing them down and bringing them home as souvenirs of their trip to the ‘most singing city in the world’.

Chamber Concert

The musicians of the Munich baroque ensemble L’Accademia Giocosa are considered experts of historical performance practice in the German-speaking world. The ensemble was founded in 2010 by members of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and freelance artists from the early music scene with the aim of presenting the diverse sounds of the 17th and 18th centuries on original instruments and in a lively and engaging way – “giocoso” – as well as reintroducing forgotten works. For this chamber concert, L’Accademia Giocosa will present musical gems by Antonio Vivaldi, Luigi Boccherini, Joan Baptista Pla, Francesco Durante, and Georg Philipp Telemann that perfectly complement Sir Simon Rattle’s new Baroque initiative.