Christian Tetzlaff & Orquestra de La Comunitat Valenciana

Thomas Hengelbrock reunites with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana (OCV) years after the acclaimed all-Beethoven concert he conducted at the Granada Festival. For this performance, the founder of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble brings together two giants of German Romanticism, Schumann and Brahms, who, in addition to sharing a love for Clara, faced the common challenge of composing under Beethoven’s imposing shadow.
Schumann, at a time of fragile health, achieves the utmost beauty in the Adagio of his Symphony No. 2, a synthesis of melancholy, reflection and sorrow that we also encounter, albeit in a very different way, in Brahms’s Violin Concerto. With its symphonic scale and sonorities, this work presents a formidable challenge for a musician of such extraordinary virtuosity as Christian Tetzlaff.