Beethoven Festival: de Negende symfonie

Beethoven Festival with Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

Three days of highlights from the master: the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century celebrates the Beethoven Festival. From 23 to 25 May you will hear symphonies and solo concertos – one of each. The Russian Alena Baeva is the soloist in the Violin Concerto . You will also hear the First Symphony and the Third Symphony , 'Eroica', among others. Pianist Alexander Melnikov chooses one of the piano concertos. Today Cappella Amsterdam is a guest in the Ninth Symphony . Freud, Freud!

Ninth Symphony

With perhaps Beethoven's most famous melody, this three-day festival comes to a majestic conclusion: Jonathan Darlington leads the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Cappella Amsterdam in the Ninth Symphony . Some thirty years before its creation, Beethoven sketched a song on Schiller's Ode an die Freude . This text is an ode to freedom, optimism and self-determination. Exactly the subjects that occupied Beethoven when working on the Ninth Symphony . The vocal final movement, which we know as Alle Menschen gewer Brüder , is still very significant today.