On tour with Klaus Mäkelä

Kirill Gerstein performs Brahms in Seoul

on tour

On tour in South Korea, the Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein, followed by Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, all under the direction of Klaus Mäkelä.

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is a powerful, vibrant masterpiece – a pure celebration of life itself.

Concert programme

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 1

  • -- interval --

  • Béla Bartók

    Concerto for Orchestra

Performers

About this concert

With our chief conductor designate, we kick off our tour of East Asia in Seoul. Kirill Gerstein has made frequent guest appearances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, but never before has he performed Brahms with us. In Seoul, you can hear him in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

After the interval, we will be performing Bartók’s irresistible Concerto for Orchestra, the unexpectedly powerful, vibrant masterpiece that Bartók produced in his final dark years – a pure celebration of life itself.

Dates and tickets

About this concert

With our chief conductor designate, we kick off our tour of East Asia in Seoul. Kirill Gerstein has made frequent guest appearances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, but never before has he performed Brahms with us. In Seoul, you can hear him in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

After the interval, we will be performing Bartók’s irresistible Concerto for Orchestra, the unexpectedly powerful, vibrant masterpiece that Bartók produced in his final dark years – a pure celebration of life itself.

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