The Brussels Philharmonic returns to the iconic Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with two timeless masterpieces, brimming with passion and imagination. Liza Ferschtman shines in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto—melancholic and gripping, like the Finnish landscape itself. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet follows, bringing the ultimate love story to life through sweeping orchestral drama and lyrical intensity.

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‘Music begins where the possibilities of language end.’ Jean Sibelius composed his only violin concerto for himself—or perhaps for the dream he once held dear. ‘For ten years, my greatest ambition was to become a violin virtuoso,’ he wrote in his diary at the age of fourteen. That dream would never come true, and in his concerto, one hears both the sorrow of that loss and a deep, intuitive understanding of the instrument.

‘That old, but eternally new subject, Romeo and Juliet.’ Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate love story, which Tchaikovsky transforms into a gripping musical drama, full of passion, tension, and lyrical beauty.