Jaap van Zweden conducts Beethoven

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony performed by the Concertgebouworkest under the direction of Jaap van Zweden promises to be a musical event of the first order. Especially when the renowned bariton Matthias Goerne is singing Lieder by Schubert and Strauss complemented by a brand new Lied by Detlev Glanert.

Jaap van Zweden and Beethoven’s Fifth

Conductor Jaap van Zweden needs no introduction. The same goes for Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The ingenious structure based on the most famous four notes in the history of Western music would become the archetypal symphony for many. Although the score is underpinned by the scantiest of thematic material, it is brimming with rhythmic energy and emotional vistas. Even a work performed as often as the Fifth is never ‘finished’, in the sense that no two performances are ever the same, and every conductor adds personal nuances. So how will Jaap van Zweden approach it?

Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne has been called Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s most famous student. His lied interpretations are considered to be among the best in the world. He can convey the boundless melancholy of the lieder of Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss like no other. With the Concertgebouworkest he presents Lieder such as Schubert’s An Sylvia, Tränenregen and Im Abendrot and Richard Strauss’s Allerseelen and Morgen!

Detlev Glanert

The world premiere of Datlev Glanert’s Der Einsiedler will no doubt be a welcome addition. His earlier commission for the Concertgebouworkest, Idyllium, based on Brahms’s Second Symphony and premiered in 2019 by Concertgebouworkest Young, proves how much Glanert feels at home with the sound world of Romanticism: ‘I wrote it with Brahms, as if we were holding the pen together.’