Organizational mishap at the Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft: The concert promoter sent some of the audience home to his 4th symphony concert in the Alte Oper on Sunday, including long-term subscribers with regular seats.

Chairman Burkhard Bastuck regretted the decision and justified it with the changed corona rules.

This would have meant that all tickets had to be reissued.

The chaos could be foreseen 45 minutes before the start of the concert. Queues hundreds of meters long formed across Opernplatz, and the entrance from the underground car park looked no different. Every guest had to be checked extensively, as 2 G plus applied. Since the number of seats was also significantly reduced, all of the seats had to be re-allocated. The result: If you hadn't received a new card in advance, you had to exchange your ticket in the foyer. It took a while. The beginning of the concert was therefore postponed by a quarter of an hour - then the certainty came: Anyone who was still in the foyer was no longer allowed in. The majority of the audience in the hall was meanwhile waiting for the event to begin.

Those who were lucky enough to experience a concert at which the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra were in top form: Ludwig van Beethoven's violin concerto and the 2nd symphony by Johannes Brahms. The soloist was Augustin Hadelich, who began his residency at the Museum Society with the performance. The chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Sanderling, was at the podium for the third time.

The most striking feature: Sanderling let the orchestra take to the stage in a kind of old German arrangement.

The first violins on the left, then the basses, the cellos and violas, and finally the second violins.

This is not common, but it created a broad and filigree sound basis on which Hadelich could be excellently worked out.

The soloist, born in 1984, gratefully took the opportunity, celebrated the impulsiveness of the moment and the fascination of apparent spontaneity that came along in the guise of the greatest precision, savoring every note, every pause.

Beethoven can sound so airy, so light.

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The concert will be repeated on December 13th, 8 p.m.