| Chin, Unsuk (b. 1961) | subito con forza | |
| Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) | Siegfried Idyll | |
| Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) | Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op.40 |
| Klaus Mäkelä | Conductor |
| Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra |
Under the baton of its future chief conductor, the Concertgebouw Orchestra perform a programma full of live in Madrid and Barcelona. 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: the lifeblood of this autobiographical work is a lovely violin solo representing the hero’s life partner.
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. In January 2024, Unsuk Ching was awarded the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.