Notes are after all only signs, and if you only follow the signs they won’t get you there. It comes from a hunger to comprehend what is behind the notes. “They have an understanding of each composer like an actor understands his roles – they interpret, and shift into the appropriate character. Having worked with so many composer-conductors in their history, they boast an individual and unique sound because… The RCO only came to be known as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra a hundred years later in 1988, when Queen Beatrix conferred the ‘Royal’ title upon the orchestra.Ĥ.
This is also the same case with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, named after the concert hall, or Gewandhaus. The Concertgebouw (concert hall) opened its doors on 11 April 1888, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra was established a few months later. Essentially, that’s what the word ‘Concertgebouw’ means. Imagine an orchestra called the Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra. Mahler worked so well with them that he went back as guest conductor for 10 occasions!ģ. Their longest-serving chief conductor was Wilhelm Mengelberg, a Dutchman who attracted many leading composers such as Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy (whose music will be played at the concert in Jan), and Igor Stravinsky to conducted the orchestra on more than one occasion. In 129 years of orchestra history, the RCO has had only 7 chief conductors. Want to know more about them? Read on to find out!ġ. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra makes its Singapore debut next year with an exciting programme of Debussy and Bruckner under the baton of Daniele Gatti.
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