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2025 RCO CHRISTMAS CONCERT. London. This year, we will usher in the 50th Christmas morning concert broadcast on TV! Klaus Mekele performed at the orchestra of the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam and presented a charming Christmas concert, including Rimsky-Korsakov's "Shehrachard" and Deepenbrook's touching "Night of Lidia". Since 1975, every Christmas Day, the Christmas concert of the concert hall orchestra has been broadcast live in the main hall - it was broadcast by NOS and Eurovision in the early years, and AVRO has been in charge of it since 1990. Traditionally, the Christmas Morning Concert has always been the stage of the chief conductor: the Mahler Symphony conducted by Bernard Heitink and the opera concert by Ricardo Shay have almost become legends. Now, Klaus McKayle, who is about to become the chief conductor, is holding the baton at Christmas. The theme of this concert is twilight, night language and exotic stories: in Shekhrachada, the solo violin runs through the whole song like a golden thread, telling the fantasy legend of One Thousand and One Nights. Equally fascinating is the symphonic poem "Night of Lidiania" by Alphons Dippenbrook, one of the most important composers of late Dutch Romanticism, which depicts a shepherd grazing alone in the dark, a surging heart and a calm and speechless moonlight, which is touching. Programme Alphons Diepenbrock Lydische Nacht (Lydian Night, symphonic poem, arr. E. Reeser) Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade Klaus Mäkelä chief conductor designatedate
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