NDR Radiophilharmonic Hannover: Beethoven & Brahms

In 2025 NDR Radiophilharmonic Hannover celebrated its first 75 years, from its origins as a broadcast ensemble to the building of its own concert hall and its current enviable position as an orchestra of international standing. It was 2017 when Birmingham audiences last had the chance to hear them and now, led by charismatic Chief Conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky, they bring an excitingly authentic voice to masterpieces by Beethoven and Brahms. Looking ahead to the 200 th anniversary of Beethoven’s death in 2027, the Hannover musicians begin with his Egmont Overture. Written to accompany Goethe’s play, it captures Egmont’s heroic struggle for freedom with imposing grandeur. For many people, Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto is their favourite, and the precision and sensitivity that characterise the playing of celebrated Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter are the perfect qualities for a work of such lyrical poetry and joyful warmth. Long walks and glorious countryside were the holiday backdrop to Brahms’s Second Symphony. Such carefree character pervades this gorgeous work with its long, arching melodies, pastoral glimpses and a boisterous finale that carries you away. See the full B:Classical Season here