Concerts with works by

Modest Mussorgski

Bruch's Violin Concerto and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

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.

Alexander Yakovlev / Klavierabend

Alexander Yakovlev is a graduate of the Rostov State Conservatory, where he also completed postgraduate studies with Sergei Osipenko and studied composition with Leonid Klinichev. He then studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Alexei Lyubimov and in Berlin at the University of the Arts with Pascal Devoyon. The pianist’s international career grew rapidly after he won the 2006 Chopin Competition in Rome, where he was presented with a grand piano as well as the Grand Prix.

Guest performance

Guest performance

Organ matinee In memory of Jean Guillou

Slovakian organist Zuzana Ferjenčíková dedicates her debut concert on the organ of the Berlin Philharmonie Berlin to her teacher Jean Guillou, who died in 2019. Guillou performed on the the Philharmonie’s organ several times himself. His speciality: his own arrangements of famous orchestral works, with which he created unexpected orchestral timbres on the organ. Zuzana Ferjenčíková plays some of Guillou's most impressive arrangements, including the delicate “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and Mussorgsky's powerful cycle Pictures at an Exhibition.

Duplex Piano – The Piano with Two Manuals

Around 1920, the composer Emánuel Moór had the vision of building the piano of the future. His duplex piano with two manuals was born out of the spirit of the late Romantic period and offers even more tonal colours and a greater richness of sound. On an ordinary piano, one touch of the keys causes a hammer to strike the string. With the duplex piano, two hammers can be coupled: one keystroke then produces two tones simultaneously. This doubling of the tones leads to an unimagined fullness of sound in the forte, and to a magical brilliance of sound in the piano. The two manuals allow for differentiated layers of sound. Emanuel Moór also developed new string instruments. His Moór violin and Moór viola will be presented at the concert. The work »Pictures at an Exhibition« was created by Modest Mussorgsky for solo piano – but it became world-famous in the orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel. In this concert, the work is performed in a new chamber music version with the duplex piano. Rachmaninov and Shostakovich also arranged Mussorgsky’s works and Borodin was a member of the »Group of Five« with Mussorgsky. Shostakovich wrote his Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor in 1944, reflecting the horrors of the Second World War and the loss of a friend. This concert commemorates the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death with this work. A work by Emánuel Moór also appears as a common thread in this duplex concert. Violinist Mirijam Contzen is internationally recognised as a soloist and Sony artist and teaches as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Violist Hartmut Rohde is a member of the outstanding Mozart Piano Quartet. He is Professor of Viola at the Berlin University of the Arts. David Stromberg, who rediscovered the duplex piano, will play the cello. He endeavours to provide audiences with new, fascinating listening experiences, including as curator of concerts with the duplex piano. The pianist Florian Uhlig plays the duplex piano. He has been honoured with the »Opus Klassik« and »Deutscher Schallplattenpreis« media awards for his complete recording of Robert Schumann’s piano works. He performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician and teaches as a professor at the Lübeck University of Music.

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's Tzigane

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!