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Conducting Project 2025

At the end of November 2025, it was once again time to celebrate at the Residentie Orkest. The tenth edition of the conducting project concluded with the famous final concert featuring no fewer than fourteen young conductors! A look back.

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Review of Dvořák 9

What a weekend with three sold-out concerts in The Hague, Amsterdam and Utrecht. From Dvořák's 'New World' to Jeths' Suite 'Ritratto' and Schumann's fiery Cello Concerto - one and all groundbreaking music. A retrospective!

Review of Walton & Beethoven

Last weekend we two were treated to the imperial splendor of Beethoven's Emperor Concert with pianist Lucas Jussen and Walton's rarely performed First Symphony. A retrospective!

Review of Shostakovich & Brahms

An evening of accomplished compositions in the Nieuwe Kerk. The very best chamber music by Shostakovich and Brahms, performed by an extraordinary selection of strings. A retrospective.

Review of Fauré's Requiem

A heavenly weekend with one of the most beautiful requiems ever composed - the Netherlands Radio Choir returned to The Hague for Gabriel Fauré's Requiem. A retrospective!

Review of Shostakovich 6

A world premiere for The Hague featuring a new work by Max Knigge, Grieg's dazzling Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's whimsical Sixth Symphony. A retrospective!

Review of A Night at the Opera

Musical fireworks by Haydn, Mozart and Rossini and dazzling vocal talent Maria Warenberg in The Hague and Leeuwarden last weekend. A retrospective!

Review of An American Dream

Mendelssohn's world-famous Violin Concerto and the Hague premiere of a work by Florence Price. A retrospective!

Review of Prinsjesdag Concert 2025

The Hague celebrated Prinsjesdag, and we celebrated with them! The Residentie Orkest opened the new season with the Prinsjesdag Concert with our new chief conductor Jun Märkl and new artist in residence, violinist Bomsori Kim. A festive look back!

Review of Eighty Years Later

Atmospheric, subdued, intimate. A concert in the Nieuwe Kerk always stays with you. And that was certainly the concert around the theme Eighty Years Later on Friday , Sept. 12. A retrospective.

Review of Classics in the Nieuwe Kerk

Atmospheric, subdued, intimate. A concert in the Nieuwe Kerk always stays with you. And that was certainly the concert with top violinist Shunske Sato. He played and conducted, among other things, Beethoven's Second Symphony and the overwhelmingly beautiful Arianna a Naxos by Haydn, sung by Barbara Kozelj. A retrospective!

Review of Mahler 4

Last weekend we closed the season at Amare quirky with Bartók's Viola Concerto in arrangement for cello and Mahler's heavenly Fourth Symphony. A retrospective!

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