As an introduction, we got a piece of Brahms (Geistliches Lied, Op.30) and a fantastic sensitive piece of Beethoven (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op.112) with text by none other than Goethe !
An amazing and fantastic piece of music mellowed in the hands of Richard Tognetti and his fantastic ACO musicians with the help of the very talented Choir of Clare College from Cambridge.
But this was just an introduction, never the less worth the whole ticket:
- but that was before we had heard the performance of the 9th- I have never ever heard anything more beautiful - most of us are very much familiar by the bits and pieces of the 9th that are played over-and-over again - but this entire 65 minutes was the most exquisite pleasure for my ears and mind I have ever experienced - the entire concert hall was filled with the breadth and depth of the music that I have never experienced before - I could actually hear each instrument and almost each person in the big choir - simply beautiful and such a wonderful 65 minutes that I would have been able to turn around and go for another round at any time!!
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