Klaus Mäkelä and Rachmaninoff
Lisa Batiashvili plays Prokofiev, world premiere by Ellen Reid
Between Late Romanticism and Modernity: Klaus Mäkelä conducts Rachmaninoff’s lush Second Symphony, preceded by Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto featuring Lisa Batiashvili and a newly commissioned work by Ellen Reid.
The melancholy theme of the third movement has brought tears to the eyes of many, and will always continue to do so.
Concert programme
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Ellen Reid
Body Cosmic (commission, world premiere)
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Sergej Prokofjev
Violin Concerto No. 2
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Serge Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2
Performers
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Klaus Mäkelä
chief conductor designate
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Lisa Batiashvili
violin
About this concert
Since her first appearance in 2001, the violinist Lisa Batiashvili has always given performances to look forward to. She now returns to perform as soloist in Prokofiev’s delightfully melodious Second Violin Concerto. Klaus Mäkelä has paired it with Rachmaninoff’s irresistible Second Symphony, a work with which the composer avenged the failure of his First. And how! The melancholy theme of the third movement has brought tears to the eyes of many since the 1908 premiere, and will always continue to do so.
Also on the programme is a surprise: a newly commissioned work by the American composer Ellen Reid to mark her residency at the Concertgebouw and with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the 2023–24 season. Audiences have come to know her as a musical jack-of-all-trades, who moves effortlessly across a wide range of disparate styles and genres – from classical to avant-garde pop and electronic soundscapes. This should be interesting!
Read the interview with Ellen Reid about her residency here.
Ellen Reid’s Body Cosmic was commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Paris, Carnegie Hall and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Since her first appearance in 2001, the violinist Lisa Batiashvili has always given performances to look forward to. She now returns to perform as soloist in Prokofiev’s delightfully melodious Second Violin Concerto. Klaus Mäkelä has paired it with Rachmaninoff’s irresistible Second Symphony, a work with which the composer avenged the failure of his First. And how! The melancholy theme of the third movement has brought tears to the eyes of many since the 1908 premiere, and will always continue to do so.
Also on the programme is a surprise: a newly commissioned work by the American composer Ellen Reid to mark her residency at the Concertgebouw and with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the 2023–24 season. Audiences have come to know her as a musical jack-of-all-trades, who moves effortlessly across a wide range of disparate styles and genres – from classical to avant-garde pop and electronic soundscapes. This should be interesting!
Read the interview with Ellen Reid about her residency here.
Ellen Reid’s Body Cosmic was commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Paris, Carnegie Hall and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.