THOMAS HENGELBROCK

Thomas Hengelbrock

Thomas Hengelbrock renews his collaboration with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana years after the acclaimed all-Beethoven concert he conducted at the Granada Festival. The founder of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble chooses this evening to explore the dialogue between two titans of German Romanticism, Schumann and Brahms, who, in addition to sharing their love for Clara, faced the common challenge of composing beneath Beethoven’s overwhelming shadow. Schumann, at a time of fragile health, achieves absolute beauty in the Adagio of his Symphony No. 2. A synthesis of melancholy, reflection and pain that, in a very different way, also emerges in Brahms’s Violin Concerto, a work of symphonic scale and sonority to be tackled by the astonishing musician Christian Tetzlaff.