The brass and wind Ninth Symphony

If you know nothing else about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, you will surely know ‘Ode to Joy’.

It is the fourth and final movement of this choral symphony masterpiece that was composed between 1822 and 1824. Beethoven was almost totally deaf by the time of the premiere, so much so that he couldn’t hear the repeated ovations. It remains one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of western music. It was of course written for an orchestra, but there have been other arrangements.

SimfoVents Palma, born out of the Palma Band of Music, will be performing it along with the City of Ibiza Choir and Capella Mallorquina, one of Mallorca’s oldest established choirs - formed in the 1960s and ever present since then at the July concert in the Torrent de Pareis in Sa Calobra. The Cathedral is the venue; it should be a real treat.