Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies are musical masterworks, unparalleled even with ‎the passing of the years. Written between 1799 and 1824, they had an unprecedented ‎influence on contemporary music at the time and formed the basis upon which symphonic ‎music of the 19th and 20th centuries would be founded. ‎

‎For the first time, maestro Jordi Savall conducts Beethoven’s nine symphonies at ‎L’Auditori, a project that will continue until the 2020-21 season and which gets ‎underway this 7 June in Sala 1 Pau Casals at L’Auditori with the performance of Symphonies 1, ‎‎2 and 4. ‎

‎Savall returns to the music of Beethoven after 25 years ‎
In 1994, Jordi Savall recorded Symphony No. 3, also known as the Eroica ‎Symphony (an album re-released in 2016 by Alia Vox). After this version full of colour ‎and ‎drama, considered one of the most beautiful ‎interpretations ever created with ‎period‏ ‏‎instruments, Beethoven has remained absent ‎from the discography of the Catalan ‎maestro. ‎‎

This concert, therefore, is a unique event where we will be able to listen, in a pioneering way, ‎to the rediscovery of the romanticism that pays homage to the Beethoven ‘revolution’, the ‎first of the nine symphonies that will be presented in four concerts during 2019 and 2020.‎

It is a performance based on historical recovery, Beethoven’s tempo and musical discourse, ‎that Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations offer us to commemorate 250 years since the ‎birth of one of the most extraordinary geniuses of European musical culture.‎