Live! at the Concertgebouw

Join host Hans Haffmans for Radio Netherlands’ classical music concert series Live! at the Concertgebouw. (Sunday 4 – 6 pm)

Housed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and built in 1888, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest concert venues in the world. In fact, Bernard Haitink who once described the Concertgebouw as the “best instrument in the orchestra it houses.” Today, some nine hundred concerts per year take place in the Concertgebouw, for a public of over 800,000, making it the second most-visited concert hall in the world.
Sundays at 4 pm

14-Apr
David Robertson
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano
BERG – Altenberg Lieder
LINDBERG – Era
ZEMLINSKY – Maeterlinck Lieder
STRAVINSKY – Le sacre du printemps

21-Apr
RCO CD Special:
125 Years RCO – Classic Recordings, Part 1

28-Apr
Stéphane Denève
Susan Gritton, soprano
Kate Aldrich, mezzo soprano
Yann Beuron, tenor
Laurent Naouri, baritone
Vincent Le Texier, bass
Netherlands Radio Choir
MARTIN – Golgotha

5-May
RCO CD Special
Mariss Jansons
SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 10

12-May
Bernard Haitink
BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 82013-19

19-May
125th Anniversary Concert
Mariss Jansons
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Janine Jansen, violin
Lang Lang, piano
WAGNER – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Overture
MAHLER – Orchestral Songs
PROKOFIEV – Piano Concerto No. 3 (excerpt)
SAINT-SAËNS – Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
STRAUSS – Der Rosenkavalier Suite

19-May
RCO CD Special
Riccardo Chailly – The Stravinsky Recordings

26-May
Riccardo Chailly
Genia Kühmeyer, soprano
Bernarda Fink, mezzo soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Netherlands Radio Choir
HENZE – Elogium Musicum
MENDELSSOH – Symphony No. 2 ‘Lobgesang’

27 MAY – 2 JUN 2013
RCO CD Special
Mariss Jansons
Christine Brewer, soprano
Camilla Nylund, soprano
María Espada, soprano
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano
Mihoko Fujimura, alto
Robert Dean Smith, tenor
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Stefan Kocán, bass
Netherlands Radio Choir
State Choir Latvija
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
National Boys’ Choir
National Children’s Choir
National Children’s Choir JUNIOR
MAHLER – Symphony No. 8

3-9 JUN 2013
Vladimir Jurowski
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
BRAHMS – Piano Concerto No. 2
ZEMLINSKY – Die Seejungfrau2013-24

10-16 JUN 2013
Herbert Blomstedt
Hannes Minnaar, piano
BEETHOVEN – Piano Concerto No. 4
NIELSEN – Symphony No. 5

17-23 JUN 2013
RCO CD Special
The RCO Beethoven Tradition

24-30 JUN 2013
Iván Fischer
BEETHOVEN – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

For more information about Live! at the Concertgebouw, please visit Radio Netherlands’ website.