Name: Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Schumann
Start: 2025-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Het Concertgebouw

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Klaus Mäkelä

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Julian Rachlin

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Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Schumann

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Public

Concert

Spiri III: Sacred Ritual

Offertorium, for Violin and Orchestra

Symphony No. 4 in D Minor op. 120

Jnanakumar P

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Bass

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Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

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hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

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Alto

Continuo

From the first notes, the Fourth Symphony carries us away into Schumann’s utterly original world of dark romanticism. ‘Robert Schumann is the romantic composer’, says conductor Klaus Mäkelä. ‘His symphonies contain such wonderful moments. It always makes me feel good to play them. His music fills your heart with joy and sadness – the emotions are very pure and honest. Schumann makes me happy; he makes me a better person.’  

His romantic musical language notwithstanding, Schumann was a great admirer of the early music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The famous Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina also shows her indebtedness to the Baroque master, as in her much-praised Offertorium. The concert opens with a newly commissioned work by the successful Korean Seung-Won Oh. The final piece of her Spiri trilogy, Spiri III ‘seeks to transform the transient nature of human affection, and expand and enhance it to the next level’, the composer says. ‘Rather than limiting the view of the flower blooming and withering to a local event, we can contextualize this minute event as the beginning of a perpetual cycle that can't be measured or truly experienced by humans.’

English

Klaus Mäkelä Conducts Schumann by Seung-Won Oh, Gubaidulina, Schumann, From (2025/2025), Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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