Concerts with works by

Ludwig van Beethoven

Works by von Weber, Beethoven and Brahms

Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 and Beethoven

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.

Lunch concert

You can simply go to a concert at the Philharmonie, spontaneously, during your lunch break – and with free admission: every Wednesday at 13:00 between September and June. The programme lasts 40 to 50 minutes: chamber music, piano works or a percussion duo – everything from Tchaikovsky to tango. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan Academy regularly perform, as well as guests from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berlin music conservatories. As can be expected at a lunch concert, catering is available from 12 noon until shortly before the concert begins.

Fischer, Nylund · Fauré, Wagner, Beethoven

Alice Sara Ott / Piano Recital

She draws, she writes, she explains and, of course, she plays the piano. Alice Sara Ott is a pianist of our time. Bringing the music of the past, which she loves so much, into the present is an important concern for her. And the audience thanks her for it – with fantastic streaming figures and enthusiastic comments. She is characterised by an elegant virtuosity and an openness that defies the rigid conventions of the classical music business: »Music really is the only place where we can meet. No matter what religion, what cultural background you have, what political party you vote for.« The Munich-born pianist with Japanese roots believes that any form of marginalisation is contrary to the spirit of music, and in this way creates new connections in her concerts – between people, but also between the works. Thus Beethoven’s famous »Moonlight Sonata« meets John Field, the almost forgotten »inventor« of the nocturne.

Fischer, Nylund · Fauré, Wagner, Beethoven

Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto

Aleady as a child, artist in Residence Seong-Jin Cho was impressed by “the brilliant and dramatic expression” of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. His view has since evolved, he says: “This music is not only fiery, but also lyrical, deep and broad”. He will perform the work with Jakub Hrůša, chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. The Concerto for Orchestra, which shifts between melancholy and joie de vivre, is also one of Béla Bartók’s most popular works. Leoš Janáček’s folk suite from the opera Osud (Fate), on the other hand, is a rarely performed.

Symphonic Concert

Mathew Halls, photo: Benjamin Ealovega The final bar of Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 in C major has been compared by conductor Colin Davis to the closing of a coffin lid. Although the great Finn still had more than 30 years to live after it was written, it is one of his last completed works. The unusual one-movement form of the work, which was originally to be titled ‘Fantasia Sinfonica’, has become an interpretative challenge for critics and analysts. While unanimously describing the work as revolutionary, scholars have differed in the justifications for their judgement. Benjamin Britten’s dark opera Peter Grimes, which tells the story of a fisherman suspected of murdering a young journeyman, contains highly successful orchestral interludes which, in a slightly altered order and with minor alterations, were successfully published separately as Four Sea Interludes shortly after the opera’s premiere in 1945. They consist of ‘Dawn’, an illustration of a calm sea, ‘Sunday Morning’, with the sound of tolling church bells imitated by horn, the majestic nocturne ‘Moonlight’ and the deathly terrifying ‘Tempest’. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony was received less warmly than the Seventh, because, as the offended composer was to comment, ‘the Eighth is better’. Beethoven undoubtedly put more work into it than into its predecessor, as the surviving sketches testify. Performed for the first time under the baton of its increasingly hard-of-hearing composer in Vienna in 1814, it was not dedicated to anyone, perhaps due to its cool reception.

Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto

Aleady as a child, artist in Residence Seong-Jin Cho was impressed by “the brilliant and dramatic expression” of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. His view has since evolved, he says: “This music is not only fiery, but also lyrical, deep and broad”. He will perform the work with Jakub Hrůša, chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. The Concerto for Orchestra, which shifts between melancholy and joie de vivre, is also one of Béla Bartók’s most popular works. Leoš Janáček’s folk suite from the opera Osud (Fate), on the other hand, is a rarely performed.

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Symphonic Concert

Mathew Halls, photo: Benjamin Ealovega The final bar of Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 in C major has been compared by conductor Colin Davis to the closing of a coffin lid. Although the great Finn still had more than 30 years to live after it was written, it is one of his last completed works. The unusual one-movement form of the work, which was originally to be titled ‘Fantasia Sinfonica’, has become an interpretative challenge for critics and analysts. While unanimously describing the work as revolutionary, scholars have differed in the justifications for their judgement. Benjamin Britten’s dark opera Peter Grimes, which tells the story of a fisherman suspected of murdering a young journeyman, contains highly successful orchestral interludes which, in a slightly altered order and with minor alterations, were successfully published separately as Four Sea Interludes shortly after the opera’s premiere in 1945. They consist of ‘Dawn’, an illustration of a calm sea, ‘Sunday Morning’, with the sound of tolling church bells imitated by horn, the majestic nocturne ‘Moonlight’ and the deathly terrifying ‘Tempest’. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony was received less warmly than the Seventh, because, as the offended composer was to comment, ‘the Eighth is better’. Beethoven undoubtedly put more work into it than into its predecessor, as the surviving sketches testify. Performed for the first time under the baton of its increasingly hard-of-hearing composer in Vienna in 1814, it was not dedicated to anyone, perhaps due to its cool reception.

Lucas Chiche – Récital Piano – COMPLET

Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto

Aleady as a child, artist in Residence Seong-Jin Cho was impressed by “the brilliant and dramatic expression” of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. His view has since evolved, he says: “This music is not only fiery, but also lyrical, deep and broad”. He will perform the work with Jakub Hrůša, chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. The Concerto for Orchestra, which shifts between melancholy and joie de vivre, is also one of Béla Bartók’s most popular works. Leoš Janáček’s folk suite from the opera Osud (Fate), on the other hand, is a rarely performed.

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FABIAN MÜLLER

When Fabian Müller made his Pierre Boulez Saal debut in January 2022, his memorable performance of Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” Sonata confirmed his reputation as one of the outstanding pianists of his generation. Now the ARD Competition winner, who was born in 1990 in Beethoven’s hometown of Bonn, takes on the challenge of presenting all the composer’s sonatas as a complete cycle. Dubbed the “New Testament” of piano music by Hans von Bülow— Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier was known as the “Old Testament”—the 32 works will be heard over the course of eight Sunday-afternoon concerts. Completing the individual programs are short pieces newly composed by Müller himself, in which he expresses his reflexions on Beethoven’s sonatas.

Alexandra Dovgan

Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan, known for her mature interpretations, loves Romantic music, particularly Schumann's. Her playing brings depth and precision to his compositions. Now, after numerous competition wins, she focuses on performances, playing Schumann and Prokofiev in her Essen recital.

5th Soirée

Concert of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna

Szymon Nehring

Since winning the International Rubinstein Competition in 2017, Szymon Nehring has been one of the most sought-after pianists of his generation. In Heidelberg, the Polish high-flyer presents three major works of the classical-romantic repertoire: Beethoven's first piano sonata, dedicated to Joseph Haydn, and his Sonata op. 31/3, nicknamed "La Chasse"; and Schumann's Symphonic Etudes. The concert also includes a 7-minute discussion highlighting characteristic aspects of the program.

Guest performance

Réminiscences de l’inoubliable concert « Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est » 2023

Concert in the Wiener Konzerthaus

Orchestre de Paris / Nathalie Stutzmann

After the poetry and insight brought by Emanuel Ax to Beethoven's admirable Concerto No.4, Nathalie Stutzmann takes us into the enchanted depths of Wagner's Ring, a “total art work" from which pure orchestral gems emerge.

Absolvent*innenkonzert

Since 1994, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin has collaborated annually with the Eisler, providing invaluable support. This allows outstanding musicians and graduates to perform solo for their concert exams. The conducting class also holds final exams within this framework. These concerts are integral to the Eisler's artistic education.

Orchestre de Paris / Nathalie Stutzmann

After the poetry and insight brought by Emanuel Ax to Beethoven's admirable Concerto No.4, Nathalie Stutzmann takes us into the enchanted depths of Wagner's Ring, a “total art work" from which pure orchestral gems emerge.

Finale des Bach-Wettbewerbs Leipzig 2025

C. Bechstein Klavierabend

Beethoven 9

Uniting the vocal and orchestral forces of which he is the artistic heart and soul, Philippe Herreweghe celebrates solidarity, with Beethoven’s symphony inspired by Schiller’s Ode to Joy and Austrian composer Hanns Eisler’s pacifist oratorio Against the War.

Eröffnungskonzert Herreweghe. Orchestre des Champs-Élysées. Collegium Vocale Gent Alle Menschen werden Brüder

Beethoven's 9th Symphony, with its message of unity, crowns his symphonic works. Philippe Herreweghe explores its transparent sounds. The "Ode to Joy" joins Bertolt Brecht's pacifist call, set to music by Hanns Eisler. This forms a thoughtful and optimistic start to the 2025 Heidelberg Spring Music Festival.

West-Östlicher Vierklang

Entrance is free, donations are welcome.

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Tippet's moving pacifist oratorio meets Beethoven’s immense Choral Symphony.