Thomas Dunford / Théotime Langlois de Swarte: »The Mad Lover«

Pas de deux

So reizvoll ein Solokonzert auch ist – ist nicht ein Doppelkonzert quasi zweimal so interessant? Zwei Solisten, die sich die Bälle zuspielen, die wetteifern, sich überbieten, die zum Pas de deux sich zusammenfinden? An diesem Abend sind zwei einfach doppelt gut: die Solisten des hr-Sinfonieorchesters. Drei Konzerte für zwei Soloinstrumente stehen auf dem Programm, komponiert vom barocken Dreigestirn Bach, Telemann und Vivaldi. Unter seinen rund 50 Concerti für zwei Instrumente hat Vivaldi nur eines für zwei Trompeten gesetzt, ein Solitär im so umfangreichen Werkverzeichnis des virtuosen Venezianers. Auch Bachs Doppelkonzert BWV 1043 blieb ein Einzelstück – wer für zwei schreibt, schreibt exklusiv. Leiten wird den Abend der britische Cembalist und Dirigent Jonathan Cohen, der sich nicht nur mit seinem eigenen Ensemble Arcangelo einen Namen gemacht. Mit der Academy of Ancient Music ging er ebenso auf Tournee wie mit William Christies Ensemble Les Arts Florissants, das ihn mittlerweile zum Associate Conductor berufen hat. Franz Schuberts Mozart-nahe 5. Sinfonie, das wohl reifste unter seinen frühen sinfonischen Werken, wird dabei den reizvollen Schlusspunkt bilden in diesem Barock+-Programm.Konzertdauer: ca. 105 Minuten – inklusive Pause

Pas de deux

So reizvoll ein Solokonzert auch ist – ist nicht ein Doppelkonzert quasi zweimal so interessant? Zwei Solisten, die sich die Bälle zuspielen, die wetteifern, sich überbieten, die zum Pas de deux sich zusammenfinden? An diesem Abend sind zwei einfach doppelt gut: die Solisten des hr-Sinfonieorchesters. Drei Konzerte für zwei Soloinstrumente stehen auf dem Programm, komponiert vom barocken Dreigestirn Bach, Telemann und Vivaldi. Unter seinen rund 50 Concerti für zwei Instrumente hat Vivaldi nur eines für zwei Trompeten gesetzt, ein Solitär im so umfangreichen Werkverzeichnis des virtuosen Venezianers. Auch Bachs Doppelkonzert BWV 1043 blieb ein Einzelstück – wer für zwei schreibt, schreibt exklusiv. Leiten wird den Abend der britische Cembalist und Dirigent Jonathan Cohen, der sich nicht nur mit seinem eigenen Ensemble Arcangelo einen Namen gemacht. Mit der Academy of Ancient Music ging er ebenso auf Tournee wie mit William Christies Ensemble Les Arts Florissants, das ihn mittlerweile zum Associate Conductor berufen hat. Franz Schuberts Mozart-nahe 5. Sinfonie, das wohl reifste unter seinen frühen sinfonischen Werken, wird dabei den reizvollen Schlusspunkt bilden in diesem Barock+-Programm.Konzertdauer: ca. 105 Minuten – inklusive Pause

Jeanine De Bique "Mirrors"

The concert program "Mirrors" explores the same character from two mirroring perspectives. The arias depict key psychological moments of heroines like Agrippina and Cleopatra, set to music by Handel and Graun, among others. These works portray courageous, vulnerable, and passionate personalities. Soprano Jeanine De Bique, known for her bold performances, joins the specialist ensemble Concerto Köln in this musical exploration.

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.

»The Art of Being Human«

Human existence is a contradictory business. »The Art of Being Human« explores the complex impacts of this trite fact. The Grammy award-winning viola da gamba ensemble Phantasm thereby ensures a musical performance at the very highest level. Its members put their instrumental mastery into operation for an evening in which old sounds and contemporary dance blend into an inseparable unit and jointly try to fathom the darkest recesses of the human condition. Choreographer Sommer Ulrickson and allround visual artist Alexander Polzin create a multidisciplinary framework in which music and movement come together, connect with each other, hook into each other, collide and cross fertilise. Under the leadership of Laurence Dreyfus, Phantasm plays music of English masters, such as John Dowland, Henry Purcell and William Byrd. At the same time, the musicians interact in the most diverse way with the dancers, who move as partners and yet adversaries around sculptures by the Berlin artist Alexander Polzin. The result is a staged concert evening, which makes full use of the potential of this currently popular format!

Classical Evergreen: The Four Seasons

The album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd is one of the most popular musical works of the 20th century. It stayed almost sixteen years on the Billboard magazine list, which collects the two hundred most bought and listened to recordings in the USA in a given week. In the world of popular music, the British band remains unsurpassed. So perhaps a worthy rival should be sought in musical scores and concert performances? Who has not listened at least once to Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?Among the classical evergreens, however, Vivaldi's Four Seasons remains unrivalled. The popular violin concertos have received over a thousand recordings, one of which (Nigel Kennedy, 1986) has sold three million copies. They have also been played in at least five hundred films and undergone myriad remixes, the most popular of which is that by Max Richter, and perhaps the oldest was written by Bach himself. It is hard to believe that back in the 1940s, only some people remembered the then more than two-hundred-year-old works. Several pioneering recordings produced shortly afterwards made it clear to the world that no one could talk about feelings associated with atmospheric phenomena more beautifully than the Red Priest in the age of mass phonography and synthesisers. And yet, The Four Seasons is only just being rediscovered thanks to the exploration of historical performance. We wonder if the Red Priest would enjoy the A.D. 2025 version of {oh!} Orkiestra... Michał MendykConcert duration: approximately 90 minutes

Pearls in Baroque: The French Connection of Purcell

The Image of Melancholy: John Dowland and Henry Purcell

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.

Concert de Midi et demi avec Sohjun SHIM, Yao ZHANG et Spyros THOMAS