Klaus Mäkelä © Marco Borrgreve
Janine Jansen © Lukas Beck
Saisoneröffnung: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Jansen / Mäkelä
Wednesday
3
September
2025
19:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Season opener with Klaus Mäkelä and Janine Jansen
»... you have hardly heard anything more haunting and at the same time more exquisite than this«, according to a review of Janine Jansen's recording of Sergei Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto. At the opening concert of the 2025/26 season, you can hear the Dutch violinist in this popular work. And just as she shines as a soloist here, so does the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, which is also on the program. The conductor is the Finnish shooting star Klaus Mäkelä, who at just 29 years of age will not only be chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris, but also of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from 2027. The third item on the program is Mozart's »Paris Symphony«, with which the composer won over audiences in the French metropolis with his exuberant musical ideas and all kinds of surprising effects.