DANIELE GATTI THE INAUGURAL CONCERT CHRISTIAN GERHAHER CONCERTGEBOUW AMSTERDAM LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont, op. 84 The inaugural concert of Daniele Gatti as the new music director Entr’acte from Rosamunde in B flat major of Amsterdam’s fabled Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – only the seventh in its 128-year history. Together with German Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Christian Gerhaher, Gatti presented a bouquet of works including Mozart arias and the Wayfarer Songs by Gustav “Deh vieni alla finestra” from Don Giovanni Mahler, with whom the “world’s best orchestra” (Gramophone “Non più andrai, farfallone armoroso” from Le Nozze di Figaro international music critics’ poll) has a unique tradition going OTTORINO RESPIGHI back to the composer himself – who called Amsterdam his Fontane di Roma “second musical home”. The programme also includes Respighi’s GIUSEPPE VERDI Fountains of Rome as well as overtures by Verdi and Beethoven Overture to I vespri siciliani – with some 30 members of the Netherlands Youth Orchestra joining the RCO musicians for the Overture to Egmont. Conductor Daniele Gatti Orchestra Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra “The RCO confirmed that their Mahler can be equalled but not JeugdOrkest Nederland bettered,” declared Bachtrack’s reviewer. “Christian Gerhaher’s Baritone Christian Gerhaher portrayal of disappointed love was faultlessly executed and expressively complex.” There was “fabulous ease” in his Produced by Castus performance of Figaro’s aria “Non più andrai”, special praise Video Director Dick Kuijs for the concluding Sicilian Vespers Overture (“rarely played so Length: approx. 90' tautly and heroically”) and, above all, for Respighi’s kaleidoscopic Shot in HDTV 1080/50i showpiece: “Gatti’s colouring, dynamic and phrasing details Cat. no. A 865 50031X all clicked into place during this glittering, horizon-wide performance.” A co-production of RCO and UNITEL

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