Wiener Symphoniker / Beatrice Rana / Jaap van Zweden

The Beethoven concerto shares these qualities with Brahms’s Second Symphony: »It sheds warm sunshine on connoisseurs and amateurs alike, and belongs to all those who long to hear good music.« Lofty praise indeed from Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, whose verdict was widely feared at the time. And when the Vienna Symphony Orchestra plays the works of these two composers who both lived in the city, and whose music has long since passed into the orchestra’s DNA, then the audience experiences more than just an unforgettable evening: they experience the authentic Vienna, the essence of the city on the Danube.