Rose Connolly (2000) 

One Minute Symphony: Slow Moving Clouds (2022) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) 

Ballet-Divertissement from 'Henri VIII' (1882) 

• Introduction - Entrée des clans 

• Idylle écossaise 

• La fète du Houblon 

• Danse de la gipsy 

• Scherzetto 

• Gigue et Finale 

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) 

Piano Concerto No. 2 in c, op. 18 (1901) 

• Moderato 

• Adagio sostenuto 

• Allegro scherzando 

Break 

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) 

Symphony No. 9 in E, op. 95 "From the New World" (1893) 

• Adagio - Allegro molto 

• Largo 

• Scherzo. Molto vivace 

• Allegro con fuoco 

End of concert approximately 10:15 p.m. (Friday) or approximately 4:30 p.m. (Sunday). 

Jun Märkl conductor 

Studied Violin piano and orchestral conducting at the Musikhochschule in Hanover. Studied with Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, among others. 

Current position Chief Conductor Malysian Philharmonic Orchestra, regular guest conductor Residentie Orkest, artistic advisor Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra. 

Highlights Stood as conductor for all European opera houses. Was chief conductor of the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken (1991-1994), Mannheim Nationaltheater (1994-2000), Orchestre National de Lyon (2005-2011), MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig (2007-2012) and Basque National Orchestra (2014-2016). Conducted, among others, the Orchestre de Paris, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchester, Wiener Symphoniker and many American orchestras. Conducted Wagner's complete Ring at the Deutsche Oper. Made his debut at the Residentie Orkest in 2011. 

Denis Kozhukhin piano 

Studies At the age of five he was taught by his mother, then studied with Natalia Fish. From 2000-2007 Conservatory of Madrid. He continued his studies with, among others, Peter Frankl, Boris Berman, Charles Rosen and Andreas Staier at the piano academy Lago di Como and with Kirill Gerstein in Stuttgart.  

Awards include first prize Queen Elizabeth Competition (2010). 

Highlights Plays with the leading orchestras worldwide such as London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and London Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, regularly collaborates with Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, Leonidas Kavakos, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Emmanuel Pahud. Gave recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in the Master Pianists series. 

Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Founded The Hague, 1904 

Current chief conductor Anja Bihlmaier 

Permanent guest conductors Richard Egarr and Jun Märkl 

Chief conductors Henri Viotta, Peter van Anrooy, Frits Schuurman, Willem van Otterloo, Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgenii Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden, Neeme Järvi, Nicholas Collon. 

To be seen at Amare, Paard, The National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw, De Doelen, TivoliVredenburg among others . 

Education Annual outreach to over 40,000 schoolchildren, adults and amateur musicians in educational projects. Part of this is The Residents, through which the orchestra brings hundreds of children from districts in The Hague into contact with classical music. 

Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninov & Dvořák  

Over the centuries, more than thirty thousand operas have been written. No wonder most of them are never performed again. But an occasional one resurfaces. This concert begins with one such lost gem. 

Dancing king 

Camille Saint-Saëns did not have much luck with his operas. Except for Samson et Dalila , none of the thirteen he wrote has held repertoire. With Henry VIII , he still had reasonable success. After its premiere in 1883, it was brought back into production several more times, but after 1920 it was pretty much over. Nevertheless, he had done his best on the opera that deals with the history of England's illustrious King Henry VIII and the perils surrounding the first two of his six wives. To create an authentic atmosphere, Saint-Saëns had even studied some English music sources from the 16th century and taken some melodies from them. As befitted a true French opera of the time, Henry VIII also had a large ballet scene at the end of the second act. The action involves a great feast held at the king's palace. After an introduction, in which the various noble guests present themselves, there are various dances for the guests present to enjoy. And there, too, the necessary "British" music can be heard. There is the entrance of clans, a Scottish idyll and, as a finale, a real jig.  

Therapeutic piano concerto 

His Symphony No. 1 should have been the crowning achievement of young Sergei Rachmaninov's still fledgling career. But things turned out differently. The performance was a horrible fiasco and the composer collapsed completely. He didn't want to play anymore, couldn't get a note on paper and became addicted to alcohol. Eventually he sought refuge with Nikolai Dahl, a therapist whose unorthodox hypnosis therapy was particularly successful with alcoholics. Each session Dahl began with the mantra: "You are going to write a piano concerto and it will be a masterpiece. It worked, and Rachmaninov tentatively began work on a new piano concerto. When he finished two movements, he considered the time ripe to take it public. Of course, he himself was the soloist although it took a lot of wine to overcome his stage fright. The success was enormous and when he added an opening movement a short time later, the Piano Concerto No. 2 was a fact. It became his most popular work that he would play everywhere throughout his life.  

Nikolai Dahl, in predicting "it will be a masterpiece," has been proven quite right. Of course, the solo part is overwhelming and virtuosic, but that is only the outside. Below that, the piece has much more to offer. For example, the first movement has a classical sonata form, where Rachmaninov has soloist and orchestra move through the exposition-through-reprise in a very surprising way. With which he proved that he was not only a virtuoso pianist, but also a great composer. 

American symphony 

One of the most famous composers in Europe, Antonín Dvořák came to the United States in 1892 to assume the leadership of the New York Conservatory of Music. Homesickness drove him back to the Czech Republic after a few years, but he did take with him a wealth of musical impressions that he incorporated into his Ninth Symphony aptly titled "From the New World. There is a bit of everything to be heard. Most European still was the "Yankee" folk music, mostly inspired by the folk melodies of England, Scotland and Ireland. But he was also fascinated by the music of the natives. He even owned Theodor Baker's book Über die Musik der Nordamerikanischen Wilden and visited a Buffalo Bill-style show a few times with cowboys and Indians fighting each other. But he was most impressed by the spirituals he came into contact with through some conservatory students. The famous Largo with the alto oboe solo seems to have been inspired by them, so much so that it was later given a tuneful religious text and took on a life of its own as a true Negro spiritual. But whether it is really so American-tinged? Czech musicologists once examined it more closely and suspect that it may have been derived from a Bohemian lullaby. The beloved homeland apparently never lost sight of Dvořák. 

Kees Wisse