Sting - The Night Watch (Live At The Rijksmuseum) (2026)

The latest and most intimate concert footage from 17-time Grammy Award-winning music legend and former frontman of The Police, Sting, is The Night Watch (Live at the Rijksmuseum). This extraordinary recording was made as part of ARTE’s acclaimed Sounds Like Art series at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Sting and his regular, brilliant guitarist Dominic Miller performed the songs in a completely unique, private performance in the museum’s sanctuary. The exclusivity of the concert and the authentic depth of the sound are given by a breathtaking rarity in music history: on this special evening, Sting played an original 17th-century guitar, which was originally made specifically for the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King of France. On this instrument, and with the virtuoso acoustic accompaniment of Dominic Miller, the carefully selected repertoire of 12 songs resounds. The tracklist draws from Sting's Tony Award-nominated, deeply emotional musical The Last Ship, his most successful solo albums, and the timeless classics of The Police. The album completely breaks with the sounds of large arena concerts. The natural, majestic echo of the ancient walls of the Rijksmuseum, the silky swing of acoustic guitars, and Sting's mature, smoky, emotional vocals come to life on the grooves with such astonishing hi-fi dynamics and spatiality.