RCO: Mäkelä Conducts Beethoven & Debussy
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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1h 9m
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 nature and Debussy took the concept of program music to a whole new level composing three colorful ‘symphonic sketches’ which form La mer.
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy
Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä
Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Program: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 / Debussy’s La mer
Genre: Concert
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