NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Thomas Hengelbrock

Beethoven, the giant of Viennese Classicism. Beethoven, the hothead and revolutionary. Beethoven the brilliant child of nature, the hero, the magician, the priest, the redeemer: Writers and composers like Bettina von Arnim, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Robert Schumann or Richard Wagner transfigured this unique genius in the Romantic spirit, but even before that Beethoven was regarded as one of the very great composers, against whose work all subsequent generations have been judged.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the »Moonlight« Sonata, the Ode to Joy – these are pieces that every child knows. But what about his score to Goethe’s tragedy »Egmont«? The overture with its triumphant finale has a firm place in the concert repertoire, but not so the rest of the incidental music, which Beethoven originally composed to accompany theatre performances.

Thomas Hengelbrock and Klaus Maria Brandauer now present their own individual version of the musical drama on the concert stage. And anyone familiar with the previous productions of this »dream team« knows that the audience can look forward to a particularly intense and stimulating concert experience.