Washington Performing Arts: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Washington Performing Arts (D.C.)

Sunday, November 24, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EST)

Concert Hall at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, United States

$65-$150

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Ellen Reid — Body Cosmic
Sergei Prokofiev — Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Regularly noted as one of the world’s most versatile symphonic orchestras with soloistic qualities and robust musical prowess, the Amsterdam-based Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra makes its first return to Washington in 5 years, conducted by Finnish phenomenon Klaus Mäkelä. The concert opens with a new composition by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and sound artist 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 Rachmaninov's textured, bombastic, and serene Symphony No. 2—a work with which the composer avenged the failure of his First. And how!