The Spanish Premiere of Heiligenstadt by the Real Filharmonía de Galicia. Details (in Spanish) here.

Beethoven

Heiligenstadt was written when I was Composer in the House with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as a work which could proceed Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. It has almost exactly the same orchestration. The work has been widely performed and is available on CD (and streaming) . The piece quotes from Beethoven’s songs and contemplates his state of mind when he realised that his deafness was something that would afflict him for the rest of his life. As well as Beethoven’s despair the work also speaks of his triumph in overcoming these challenges.

The reference to Beethoven's Heiligenstadt testament - the revelation that, in utter despair at his increasing deafness, only art had kept him from suicide - was key. For McNeff, the Fifth is about succeeding in the face of adversity and the quotation from the song Sehsucht (Longing) offered the contemplative starting point for an exploration of something angrier but no less profound, with the transitions from Beethoven into his own terse language artfully wrought. The Guardian 15 Nov 2005

"Do amor e do mar" con la voz de Virginie Verrez

REAL FILHARMONÍA DE GALICIA

Marc-Leroy Calatayud, director

Virginie Verrez, mezzosoprano

S. McNeff: Heiligenstadt (estreno en España)

E. Chausson: Poema del amor y del mar, op. 19 

L. v. Beethoven: Sinfonía nº 8 en fa M, op. 93

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18 euros