RCO: Mäkelä conducts Strauss and Wagner

Synopsis

The chief conductor has traditionally led the orchestra in the Christmas Matinee – and now its future chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, assumes that role, leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra in a programme based on the theme of love. Wagner surprised his wife Cosima with the ‘Siegfried-Idyll’ on Christmas Day, 1870. Marital love also inspired Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, which he dedicated to the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza is a declaration of love for the music of Beethoven. It was with this same work that Klaus Mäkelä opened the programme he conducted on his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut in September 2020, when sparks between maestro and orchestra first flew. PROGRAM Unsuk Chin: subito con forza; Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll; Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Additional Info

• No: 8977
• Composer: Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Unsuk Chin
• Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä
• Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
• Production year: 2024
• Run time: 01:30:00
• Producers: RCO