Stage Access Host Kelsey Grammer introduces the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra which The Washington Times writes "is regularly called one of the very best in the world."

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's 2020 Christmas Matinee concert is led by Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä. He guides the orchestra in two masterpieces of orchestral music, taking audiences on a journey over land and sea. Beethoven’s atmospheric Pastoral Symphony portrays a series of events in n...

Experience the artistry of one of the most beloved cellists of all time. This breathtaking concert led by Maestro Daniele Gatti marks the return of master cellist Yo-Yo Ma (after twenty years) to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performing Shostakovich’s intense First Cello Concerto. Recorded li...

Mariss Jansons conducts Richard Strauss’ famous tone poem "Tod und Verklärung" together with Tchaikovsky's famous fifth symphony and a work by Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar, who’s music was considerably influenced by Richard Strauss.

Composer: Richard Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johan Wa...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is joined by celebrated conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and – for the first time – by star soprano Diana Damrau. Together they perform well-loved arias and orchestral works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including "Dove sono i bei momenti” from The Marriage of Figaro a...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras’s 125th anniversary celebrations in 2013 concluded with a Christmas Matinee concert in style. Andris Nelsons conducts music by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, another titan featured on the programme who himself conducted his symphonic poem Also sprach Zarath...

After two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra presented a special two-season Mahler series featuring ten large-scale symphonies, plus Das Lied von der Erde, performed in chronological order by the world’s greatest orchestra under the direction of great cond...

Acclaimed maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to lead a performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 in his final concert with the Concertgebouworkest in 2013. Bruckner wrote his Fifth Symphony in Vienna, the city in which he composed most of his symphonies. The...

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's chief conductor Daniele Gatti and star violinist Janine Jansen unite in a virtuosic performance of Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Listening to the concerto, with its sweetly flowing melodies and blazing solo passages, one would never know that it took Bruch...

Performing music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Italian maestro Giovanni Antonini, a leading pioneer of the Italian period instruments movement, conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra joined by cellist Giovanni Sollima.

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Jo...

The Royal Concertgebouworkest starts its 2019 season with a festive inauguration dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, illustrating the diversity and richness of his oeuvre. Hong Kong-born Elim Chan – one of the most exciting conductors of the younger generation and admired for her unique combin...

In many ways, Joseph Haydn and Anton Bruckner are polar opposites. Haydn was a natural talent, while Bruckner was a late bloomer. Haydn was self-assured, while Bruckner was plagued by insecurity and often plodded along laboriously. However, both produced outstanding music as evidenced by Haydn’s ...

With Beethoven and Brahms, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra turns to its forte: to perform the best works from the Classical and Romantic periods. Philippe Herreweghe joins forces here with star pianist Yefim Bronfman who is known to excel in tumultuous works. Remarkably, Bronfman now attends to...

As part of the Bruckner festival in 2014, Mariss Jansons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a series of symphonies, each paired with a classical solo concerto. The series opens with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, composed in 1795, with featured soloist Lars Vogt. One hundred years a...

In 2014, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Andris Nelsons commemorated Richard Strauss's 150th birthday. Strauss was a champion of the symphonic poem and one of his first works in that genre was Macbeth, which opens the concert celebration. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Steiche followed soon aft...

For the first time in almost 35 years conductor laureate Bernard Haitink leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony. The composer himself considered this "die keckste" (the boldest) of all his symphonies, emphasizing the rhythm and dynamics instead of monumental construc...

After the two famous Mahler festivals in 1920 and 1995, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam presented a special two season Mahler series in 2010, which includes ten large-scale symphonies, performed in chronological order by the world’s greatest orchestra under the direction of great cond...

Tchaikovsky’s iconic music for the beloved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker makes this Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's Christmas Matinee (Kerstmatinee) program truly irresistible. Tchaikovsky expert Semyon Bychkov conducts the complete ballet score in this joyous holiday concert from 2018 featurin...

Celebrating the spirit of Romanticism, the RCO's Opening Night Gala Concert 2018 led by Thomas Hengelbrock features pianist extraordinaire Evgeny Kissin - returning to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the first time since 1994. Kissin plays Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as the conductor...