Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Orchester / Thomas Hengelbrock
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 / Cherubini: Requiem – Hamburg International Music Festival
A conservative composer and a wild one
»I am delighted every time I hear a new work from your pen, and am more interested in it than in my own music. In short, I admire and love you«, Beethoven once wrote to Luigi Cherubini in Paris. The great Viennese composer was notoriously grumpy, and rarely had any friendly words for other people; but for this fellow composer he apparently made an exception. Not only did he hold his Italian colleague’s music in the utmost esteem during his lifetime: he even wished Cherubini’s Requiem to be played at his own funeral.
Thomas Hengelbrock and his Balthasar Neumann Ensembles take a closer look at this musical friendship. What did the hot-headed innovator Beethoven have in common with the subtle drama of the classically-minded Cherubini?
Hengelbrock and his ensembles have long since gained a firm place on the Hamburg music scene. They regularly delight audiences with cleverly designed concert programmes played on historic instruments. With Beethoven’s pathbreaking »Eroica« and Cherubini’s deeply serious Requiem in C minor, they show once again their ability to entice entirely new sounds from works we think we know well.
Performers
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Orchester
conductor Thomas Hengelbrock
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55 »Eroica«
– Interval –
Luigi Cherubini
Marche funèbre
Requiem für Chor und Orchester c-Moll
Encore:
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir / aus »Elias« op. 70
Series
Balthasar Neumann Choir and Orchestra
Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival