Vriendenrepetitie: Emanuel Ax & The Concertgebouw Orchestra play John Williams

This open rehearsal is for Concertvrienden only. If you are a member of Concertvrienden, log in with the Concertgebouw account with which you are listed as a Friend to order your ticket. Only members of Concertvrienden can visit this rehearsal. More information on Concertvrienden. 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.