Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Sunday, November 24, 2024 / 7:30 p.m.
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

“When a great ensemble – such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – tours the world, listeners pay attention.”  – The Chicago Tribune

Regularly noted as one of the world most versatile symphonic orchestras with soloistic qualities and robust musical prowess, the Amsterdam-based Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra makes its first return to Washington in 5 years, conducted by 28-year-old Finnish phenomenon Klaus Mäkelä, who is also the incoming music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The concert opens with a new composition by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and sound artist Ellen Reid (p r i s m, Push/Pull). Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a masterpiece of fleeting tranquility punctuated by episodes of abrupt changes in mood and tonality, is performed with the “rich and technically immaculate” (The Guardian) playing of Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili. The program concludes with Rachmaninov’s textured, bombastic, and serene Symphony No. 2— a work with which the composer avenged the failure of his First. And how!

This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.