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Emanuel Ax

The master pianist Emanuel Ax has made frequent guest appearances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, demonstrating his amazing versatility time and again. Another living legend, the film music composer John Williams (of Star Wars, Jaws, Jurassic Park, E.T. and Harry Potter fame), has written a piano concerto especially for him. Instead of Williams’s familiar ‘Spielberg sound’, the concerto mainly showcases his love of jazz in a surprisingly modern guise. No film music from Williams here, but very nearly from Tchaikovsky, whose Francesca da Rimini is a true mini-drama about an adulterous couple punished by a hellish windstorm.

Petr Popelka conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra

The Czech conductor Petr Popelka is making his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut. Currently serving as chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, he has a special flair for Central European repertoire. Popelka promises to delight with his compatriot Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, a hidden gem last performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra over twenty years ago. The Sixth proved to be Dvořák’s international breakthrough work as a symphonist. This music is like a friendly landscape in the spring sunshine, full of the melodic miracles that made his colleague Brahms so envious.

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Sun, Oct 4

Toddler's Concert: Herfstnootjes! (ages 2-4, Dutch spoken)

Nikola Meeuwsen plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2

Toddler's Concert: Herfstnootjes! (ages 2-4, Dutch spoken)

Lenneke Ruiten sings Brahms

Grootkoor Holland: 1000 voices

Toddler's Concert: Herfstnootjes! (ages 2-4, Dutch spoken)

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Great Pianists: Lucas & Arthur Jussen play Gershwin, Fauré & Ravel

Laura Misch

Wed, Oct 7

Free Lunchtime Concert: Black Achievement Month

Piano Nights with Eric Christian and Nino Gvetadze

MacMillan and Brahms by the Van Baerle Trio

Thu, Oct 8

Jason Moran Solo

Fri, Oct 9

Vriendenrepetitie: Emanuel Ax & The Concertgebouw Orchestra play John Williams

Emanuel Ax & the Concertgebouw Orchestra play John Williams

SONICO: The Edge of Tango

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