La epopeya de Klaus Mäkelä

By David Santana Cañas, 30 January 2025

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“Mäkelä va trasmutando las texturas de la orquesta en una transición fascinante a la par que orgánica”

Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 28 January 2025

Chin, subito con forza

Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

Strauss R., Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op.40

Klaus Mäkelä, Conductor

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Chailly makes a highly anticipated return to the Royal Concertgebouw

Max Lima, 4th March

Joined by two of the Netherlands' finest choirs, Riccardo Chailly conducts a Prokofiev double bill: the Fourth Symphony, a first for the orchestra, paired with the cantata Alexander Nevsky.

*****

Rafael Payare makes an unconvincing Royal Concertgebouw debut

Clare Varney, 19th February

Frank Peter Zimmermann joins the orchestra to bring Frank Martin’s seldom heard Violin Concerto back to the Netherlands.

***11

Jaap van Zweden, Dutch wanderer, rejoins the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Clare Varney, 21st January

Leonidas Kavakos joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for an evening of Hollywood glamour and lush Romantacism.

*****

Paavo Järvi and Beatrice Rana at the Concertgebouw

Antonio D'Amato, 9th October

An evening of contrasts at the Concertgebouw, where Beatrice Rana’s poised Beethoven meets Paavo Järvi’s clear-eyed Sibelius in a thoughtful performance with moments of genuine resonance.

***11

Barbara Hannigan conducts the Royal Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 2nd October

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra puts Persian music centre stage with the Dutch premiere of Tehran-based composer Golfam Khayam's I am a tale not to be told.

*****

Dramatic French flair from Thibaudet, Mäkelä and the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 17th September

Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s astonishing technical prowess in Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto entrances Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.

****1

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David Santana Cañas

David Santana (Bilbao, 1996) comienza sus estudios de música en la especialidad de fagot en el Conservatorio Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga de Bilbao. En 2014 se traslada a Madrid, donde cursa el grado en Musicología en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa y finaliza sus estudios musicales de fagot en el Conservatorio Adolfo Salazar de Madrid. Actualmente se encuentra ampliando su formación con la realización del Máster de Investigación de Música Española e Hispanoamericana en la UCM.

Épico concierto de la Orquesta del Concertgebouw y Mäkelä con Ibermúsica en Madrid