An­dris Nel­sons, mu­sic dir­ect­or of the City of Birm­ing­ham Sym­phony Or­ches­tra since 2008 in­aug­ur­ates the 2012 Beeth­oven­fest Bonn:

Jo­hannes Brahms
"Nänie", Op.82, for chor­us and or­ches­tra, set to the poem by Friedrich Schiller

Lud­wig van Beeth­oven
Sym­phony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

Lucy Crowe, sop­rano
Mi­hoko Fujimura, alto
Ben John­son, ten­or
Georg Zep­pen­feld, bass

City of Birm­ing­ham Sym­phony Or­ches­tra Chor­us
City of Birm­ing­ham Sym­phony Or­ches­tra
An­dris Nel­sons, con­duct­or