ROTTERDAM, 1 April 2026 – Sinfonia Rotterdam is bringing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony to de Doelen on Saturday 18 April, as part of a short concert series built around one of classical music’s most recognisable works. For Rotterdam, the home date puts the city’s own chamber orchestra at the centre of a programme that combines Beethoven’s dramatic force with a rarer live performance of the Triple Concerto.
If you have ever recognised Beethoven without knowing exactly why, this is probably the piece. The famous four-note opening of Symphony No. 5 is one of those musical ideas that seems to exist far beyond the concert hall, and Sinfonia Rotterdam is building an entire evening around it in one of the city’s best-known classical venues.
The Rotterdam concert will be led by conductor Conrad van Alphen and presented by Jamai Loman, with the focus on making the music feel more immediate and easier to enter without flattening its complexity. In Rotterdam, though, the biggest draw is really the orchestra itself and the chance to hear this repertoire live in de Doelen.
A Beethoven night in Rotterdam
The Rotterdam programme is fully Beethoven-focused. Alongside Symphony No. 5, Sinfonia Rotterdam will perform the Coriolan Overture and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, a work that is heard far less often than the symphonies but offers a very different kind of energy.
That concerto will bring three soloists to the stage in Rotterdam: violinist Niek Baar, cellist Sandra Lied Haga and pianist Alexander Yakovlev. Rather than pushing one soloist into the spotlight, the piece is built around interplay and musical dialogue, which gives the evening a broader shape than a standard overture-concerto-symphony format.
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Why this concert stands out
For Sinfonia Rotterdam, the series also reflects a wider ambition to make classical music feel open rather than distant. The orchestra has long worked to connect with audiences through context and presentation, and this Beethoven series clearly fits that approach.
That matters in Rotterdam, where de Doelen can offer both scale and intimacy depending on the programme. A concert like this gives you the familiar pull of Beethoven’s Fifth, but also something less predictable through the Triple Concerto and the orchestra’s effort to frame the evening in a more accessible way.
When and where to go
The Rotterdam concert takes place on Saturday 18 April 2026 at 19:30 at de Doelen. Tickets are listed at €38 and €16.
More information is available here: https://www.sinfoniarotterdam.nl/concerten
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