Klaus Mäkela and Janine Jansen: Bartók and Prokofiev

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'The finely crafted collaboration between Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä is simply sensational,' said the Volkskrant. Their program with the Concertgebouw Orchestra includes Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto and Bartók's popular Concert for Orchestra.

Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä
When Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä share the stage together the hall shimmers. 'Incomprehensible so well,' wrote Het Parool about their inspired performance of Britten's Violin Concerto last January with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. 'With glowing intensity Jansen and the orchestra snaked around each other, and they kept it up to the end, as if their lives depended on it.' Trouw added: 'The complete surrender of Jansen to this music, and the support she received from orchestra and Mäkelä was out of this world.'

Prokofiev and Bartók with the Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jansen and Mäkelä return to the Concertgebouw Orchestra with Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto, the same concert they recently recorded with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. The press praises the wonderful collaboration between Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä in every tone, as again in the Volkskrant: “From her dreamy, unpredictable melody line, Jansen pulls the orchestra, which has Mäkelä playing like a golden halo around her, unflinchingly along. The Concertgebouw Orchestra also plays Bartók's popular Concert for Orchestra.