Name: Annual Gala
Start: 2025-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Het Concertgebouw

Admin

Concertgebouworkest

Het Concertgebouw

Conductor

Klaus Mäkelä

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Janine Jansen

Violin

Annual Gala

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Public

Concert

Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z.860

Violin Concerto, Op. 15

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

Symphony No. 2 in C-Major Op. 61

Jnanakumar P

Approved

The Concertgebouw Orchestra presents its festive Annual Gala concert for loyal audience members, friends, and donors. The Annual Gala starts with a reception at 19.30, and the fashionable after-party goes on until midnight.

Dress code: black tie.

Guests are welcomed to a reception at 19.30, after which they will be ushered into the Main Hall for a uniquely memorable conducted by our artistic partner and future chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä. Leading violinist Janine Jansen performs as soloist in Britten’s deeply moving Violin Concerto, the work with which she made her Concertgebouw Orchestra debut twenty years ago.  

The concerto is preceded on the programme by the royal funeral march by Britten’s predecessor Purcell. Another well-known English lament from long ago opens Schumann’s deceptively sunny Symphony No. 2. Like Britten’s music, Schumann’s is also in dialogue with the past.

Klaus Mäkelä says, ‘A concert is a journey. The cathedral-like, almost sacred atmosphere of Dowland and Purcell enhances those aspects in Schumann and Britten, putting their works in a different light.’

After-party - After the concert, you are invited to partake in the tantalising follow-up programmes in the foyers of the Concertgebouw. There will be ample opportunity to mingle with other guests, the conductor, soloists, and choir and orchestra members until midnight.

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Ensemble