Klaus Mäkelä conducts Berlioz and Schumann
Berlioz’ Harold en Italie featuring Antoine Tamestit and Schumann’s Symphony No.3 ‘Rhenish’
The Concertgebouw Orchestra and its chief conductor designate Klaus Mäkelä take you on an adventure. In Schumann's effervescent Third Symphony ‘Rheinische’, we travel along the Rhine. Violist Antoine Tamestit is your guide in Berlioz's Harold en Italie.
Impressions of a romantic journey thread themselves together into a five-movement musical adventure that never fails to impress. Schumann at his best!
Concert programme
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Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3, ‘Rheinische'
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Hector Berlioz
Harold en Italie op.16
Performers
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Klaus Mäkelä
chief conductor designate
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Antoine Tamestit
viola
About this concert
With Klaus Mäkelä, we play two masterpieces from the symphonic repertoire. Schumann’s beloved Rhineland inspired him to compose a symphony full of noble sounds and effervescent melodies. Impressions of a romantic journey with his wife Clara thread themselves together into a five-movement musical adventure that never fails to impress. Schumann at his best!
Then we turn to sunny Italy. Berlioz describes his symphony Harold en Italie as ‘a sequence of scenes for orchestra in which the viola solos have a place throughout the piece as a reminder of my wanderings through Italy’. Viola player Antoine Tamestit is your guide, he knows the route like the back of his hand. Gradually, he has come to see the work more and more as a kind of opera, ‘in which I need to learn to breathe life into (...) the role of an inspired, sensitive and profound traveller – Berlioz himself, perhaps.’
Dates and tickets
About this concert
With Klaus Mäkelä, we play two masterpieces from the symphonic repertoire. Schumann’s beloved Rhineland inspired him to compose a symphony full of noble sounds and effervescent melodies. Impressions of a romantic journey with his wife Clara thread themselves together into a five-movement musical adventure that never fails to impress. Schumann at his best!
Then we turn to sunny Italy. Berlioz describes his symphony Harold en Italie as ‘a sequence of scenes for orchestra in which the viola solos have a place throughout the piece as a reminder of my wanderings through Italy’. Viola player Antoine Tamestit is your guide, he knows the route like the back of his hand. Gradually, he has come to see the work more and more as a kind of opera, ‘in which I need to learn to breathe life into (...) the role of an inspired, sensitive and profound traveller – Berlioz himself, perhaps.’