RAVEL, CONNESSON & BARTÓK | KLAUS MÄKELÄ, CONDUCTOR | EMILY BEYNON, FLUTE | IVAN PODYOMOV, OBOE | ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
📅 Streaming live on April 17, 2025, at 20:15 CEST (GMT+2)
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🔹 Live from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
🔹 Programme:
– Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie
– Guillaume Connesson: Les belles heures (Oboe Concerto – Dutch premiere)
– Guillaume Connesson: Danses concertantes (Flute Concerto No. 2 – Dutch premiere)
– Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz. 73 (Orchestral Suite)
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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra presents a live-streamed concert from Amsterdam conducted by Klaus Mäkelä, featuring the Dutch premieres of two concertos by Guillaume Connesson. Soloists Ivan Podyomov (oboe) and Emily Beynon (flute), both principals of the RCO, are at the heart of a programme that moves from French colour to Hungarian intensity.
Opening the concert is Ravel’s Shéhérazade, a rarely heard orchestral miniature filled with exotic atmosphere. Connesson’s Les belles heures and Danses concertantes, written respectively for Podyomov and Beynon, showcase the composer’s rhythmic vitality and cinematic orchestration. The evening concludes with Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin, a bold orchestral suite that caused scandal at its premiere but has since earned a place as one of the composer’s most daring and theatrical scores.
Overview
Klaus Mäkelä is chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic and music director of the Orchestre de Paris. He will become chief conductor of the Concertgebouworkest in 2027 and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the same season. A Decca Classics artist, Mäkelä studied at the Sibelius Academy and performs regularly as a cellist.
Emily Beynon, principal flute of the Concertgebouworkest, has performed with orchestras such as the NHK Symphony, BBC Orchestras, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She is co-founder of the Netherlands Flute Academy and is active in commissioning and performing new works.
Ivan Podyomov, principal oboe of the Concertgebouworkest since 2016, is a prize-winner at major international competitions. He has performed with orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Bamberg Symphony, and teaches at the Hochschule Luzern.
Guillaume Connesson, born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is one of France’s most prominent contemporary composers. He studied composition, orchestration, and conducting in Paris, and cites influences ranging from Ravel and Messiaen to John Adams and film music. His works have been performed by major orchestras in Europe and the United States. He is composer in association with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and teaches orchestration in Paris.
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