Concertgebouw Orchestra with Klaus Mäkelä performs works by Fanny Hensel

On December 20 and 21, 2023 at 8:15 pm, the work “Hero and Leander” by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, will be performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä at Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sporanist Chen Reiss will interpret the “dramatic scene” “Hero and Leander” by Fanny Hensel, a composer whose music is now posthumously emerging from the shadow of her famous brother Felix Mendelssohn. In fact, this will be the first time that the Concertgebouw Orchestra has performed one of her works; attention for her opulent compositional style is therefore long overdue. “We wanted to create a composition with the works of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn,” says Klaus Mäkelä.
Another concert date is on Friday, December 22 at 7 p.m. in the Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne.

Further information & tickets can be found on the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s website.