Programme notes Opening Night 2024
Welcome to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Opening Night! With this free open-air concert in Nelson Mandelapark in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, we are opening the new concert season. Conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada and featuring sor as guest artist, the programme is bursting with dance and rhythm.
Richard Strauss: Waltz Sequence No. 2
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Joey Roukens: Temptation
Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
sor: ‘Voor mij’, ‘Yuh’ (Symphony in D Minor) and ‘Zo zijn’
Igor Stravinsky: slotdelen uit ‘De vuurvogel’
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has ranked among the world’s very best symphony orchestras for over 135 years. Praised for its signature sound and the diversity of its repertoire, the orchestra has had just seven chief conductors since it was founded in 1888. Serving as the orchestra’s artistic partner since 2022, Klaus Mäkelä will be appointed its eighth chief conductor in 2027. Each year, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra gives some eighty concerts at the Concertgebouw, in addition to forty performances at other leading concert halls. It reaches music lovers all over the world through video, streaming, radio and television, as well as hundreds of CD and DVD recordings. The orchestra has developed an extensive education programme and trains young talent through the Academy of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The Concertgebouworkest Young summer project brings together hidden talent aged fourteen to seventeen from all over Europe.