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Regularly noted as one of the world’s most versatile and virtuosic orchestras, the Amsterdam-based Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra makes its first return to Washington in five years, conducted by 28-year-old Finnish phenomenon Klaus Mäkelä, also the incoming music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The concert opens with a new composition by resident composer and Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Ellen Reid (p r i s m, Push/Pull). Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a masterpiece of fleeting tranquility punctuated by episodes of abrupt changes in mood and tonality, is performed with the “rich and technically immaculate” (The Guardian) playing of Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili. The program concludes with Rachmaninoff’s textured, bombastic, and serene Symphony No. 2— a work with which the composer avenged the failure of his First. And how!
Photo by Milagro Elstak
