22/03/2026
📢 Comming soon! Alte Oper Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪 World premiere.
200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's death.
New work by Esteban Benzecry commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (Hr-Sinfonieorchester)
Alain Altinoglu, conductor
Stay tuned 😄 👍🎵
Just announced:
"..His most famous work opens the season, which marks the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's death. The first notes: nothing less than the signature tune of classical music! This is complemented by a violin concerto that also occupies a top position – namely in terms of virtuosity. For hardly anyone demands more bravura and dexterity from the soloist than Henryk Wieniawski in his F-sharp minor concerto. »Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 1 is one of the most technically challenging concertos, along with the Paganini concertos,« Julia Fischer confirms. »In fact, I have never played this concerto before, so it will be a premiere with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra – which I am very much looking forward to.« Esteban Benzecry refers to Beethoven, and specifically his Fifth Symphony, with »Latinthoven V« In it, »certain unmistakably Beethovenian motifs reappear«, says the Lisbon-born Argentine-French composer about his latest orchestral work, »transformed and transposed into a different soundscape: a lush, rhythmic tropical jungle, as if Beethoven himself were taking an imaginary journey through America.«
