Opening Concert
Herreweghe. Orchestre des Champs-Élysées. Collegium Vocale Gent
Alle Menschen werden Brüder

22 Mar 2025
20:00
Heidelberg Congress Center
Musikfestival

"Be embraced, millions!" - Beethoven crowned his symphonic oeuvre with his 9th and its joyful message of a society united in brotherhood. For Philippe Herreweghe, it is not just about the monumentality of the work, but rather about its tonal transparency. Discreetly performed in this way, the "Ode to Joy" joins Bertolt Brecht's pacifist appeal, which Hanns Eisler poured into sound in his expressive composition "Gegen den Krieg" for choir a capella in 1936. Mutually reinforcing, the appeal for peace and utopia form the thought-provoking and optimistic prelude to the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival 2025 with its thematic focus on "Liberated Time".

Concert without an intermission

Eleanor Lyons

Soprano

Sophie Harmsen

Mezzo-Soprano

Benjamin Hulett

Tenor

Johannes Kammler

Bass

Collegium Vocale Gent

Orchestre des Champs-Élysées

Philippe Herreweghe

Conductor

Hanns Eisler
Gegen den Krieg op. 55
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125
Heidelberg Congress Center
Czernyring 20
69115 Heidelberg
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We would like to thank
Eleanor Lyons
Sophie Harmsen
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Johannes Kammler
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philippe Herreweghe
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