Symphoniker Hamburg / Saisoneröffnung

Beethoven’s First for a New Start

The first note to be played at the opening of the 2020/2021 season, after the many months without an audience due to Corona – this first note should be from the pen of Bach or Mozart. That much was immediately clear to the Symphoniker Hamburg when they were rewriting the programme. Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola concentrates the essence of the Salzburg composer’s enormous oeuvre in one work, and features one of the loveliest slow movements in all of music history. It is performed by two outstanding soloists: Guy Braunstein and Maxim Rysanov. The orchestra also plays Beethoven’s First Symphony, for the simple reason that it stands like hardly any other work in music history for a new start – namely the beginning of an entire symphonic era.