Am Puls

Unfortunately, Veronica Eberle has had to cancel the symphony concert »Am Puls« for health reasons. We would like to thank Simone Lamsma for stepping in to perform the concerts with a different violin concerto.

Standing at the edge of the abyss, a man sees a catastrophe threatening to destroy him: a composer working with his ears for other people’s ears realizes he will grow deaf. In his early thirties, to boot. »I shall seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.« Thus Ludwig von Beethoven in 1801. At the time, he was working on his Second Symphony – a work that sounds so positive, effervescent and confident that one cannot recognize the profound crisis affecting Beethoven in any of its notes. Can music be a mantra for improvement? An invocation of hope where no hope can reasonably exist? A counter-spell against ink-black depression? It seems difficult to find another explanation for so much verve amidst desperation. György Ligeti and Max Bruch deliver energy kicks of their own, recurring to the vivacious folk music of their homelands – and ensuring that the great violinist Simone Lamsma, the whirlwind conductor Anja Bihlmaier on the podium and the Gürzenich Orchestra can show off everything they have, from the first to the last note.