On 31 March and 1 & 2 April, Music Director Ludovic Morlot conducts the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra in Hans Abrahamsen’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra across three nights at L’Auditori.

Ludovic will open the programme with Haydn’s Symphony No.60 in C Major ‘Il distratto’, before conducting Hans Abrahamsen’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, joined by horn player Juan Manuel Gómez. Originially dedicated to the well-known German horn player Stefan Dohr, who premiered it with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2020, the work has been highlighted for its capacity to create surprising, evocative atmospheres with few means.

The second half of the concert will feature Bohuslav Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice, before Ludovic finishes with Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No.5 in C minor – first heard in Barcelona only in 1881, 73 years after its premiere in Vienna.