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Carnegie Hall Presents

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Saturday, November 23, 2024 8 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Klaus Mäkelä by Marco Borggreve
Hear one of the world's great Mahler orchestras perform the First Symphony—a work that the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performed under Mahler's own baton in its Dutch premiere. For this performance, the historic orchestra is led by Chief Conductor Designate Klaus Mäkelä, one of the international music world's most sought-after leaders. Also featured on the program is Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, a lush and beautiful piece originally scored for string sextet (making it the first tone poem ever written for chamber ensemble). Schoenberg's string-orchestra arrangement remains one of his most popular creations and an enduring staple of the concert repertoire.

Performers

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä, Chief Conductor Designate

Program

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

G. MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission. Please note that there will be no late seating before intermission. 

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At a Glance

This concert presents early masterpieces by two of the most important composers in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Mahler’s First Symphony already has his signatures, including a memorable funeral march and a vivid evocation of nature. As Schoenberg, who shares this program, observed, “Everything that will characterize him is already present … Here already his life-melody begins, and he merely develops it. Here are his devotions to nature and his thoughts of death.” Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht is a transitional work in every sense, a twilight-of-Romanticism tone poem by a composer whose atonal revolution was soon to stand Romanticism on its head. Lush, indeed, luscious in its tonal richness, Verklärte Nacht nonetheless expands tonality to its limits, so that there was little place to go afterward.

Bios

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Based in Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw Orchestra was founded in 1888 and officially received the appellation “Royal” at its Centenary Celebration in 1988. Queen Máxima of ...

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Klaus Mäkelä

Klaus Mäkelä has served as chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic since 2020 and music director of Orchestre de Paris since 2021. In 2022, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ...

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