CANCELLED: Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Ensemble / Thomas Hengelbrock
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
The concert programme of the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle cannot go ahead as planned due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This event has had to be cancelled – it will not be rescheduled on an alternative date. Under the following link you can request a refund of your ticket price or expressly forgo the refund in support of the cultural scene: Information on tickets refunds and waiving refunds for cancelled events
Ludwig van Beethoven himself described it as his »greatest work«: Missa solemnis. The very fact that the premiere took place in a concert hall and not in a church shows that this work is more than just a purely musical arrangement of divine service. In 1824, Beethoven went beyond all previous frames and forms of scoring devotional music and, despite being deaf, wrote a technically and physically extremely demanding work.
For Thomas Hengelbrock, who will perform the monumental piece with the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble at the Elbphilharmonie, Beethoven is one of those composers »who are closest to us, who perhaps tell us most about ourselves. I am trying to make the Mass accessible as a piece that springs from the soul of a composer, with all the confidence, consolation, and happiness, but that also contains great need and despair.« This is in the spirit of the composer himself, who prefixed the Kyrie of his Mass with the motto »From the heart – may it go back to the heart again.«
Performers
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Orchester
Mari Eriksmoen soprano
Stefanie Irányi alto
Maximilian Schmitt tenor
Michael Nagy bass
conductor Thomas Hengelbrock
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis für Soli, Chor und Orchester D-Dur op. 123
Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival