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Beethoven is believed to have gradually become aware of the cruel deterioration of his hearing when he was composing his Romance for Violin and Orchestra no. 2, op.50. Despite the burden of this awareness, nothing in the music he then composed offers an inkling as to the dramatic period he was going through. The composition may even have been an escape from this reality, and many of his most admired works were born at a time when he was almost deaf, proof of how music is also often the product of an inexorable inner drive.

Gulbenkian Orchestra
José Eduardo Gomes Conductor
Francisco Lima Santos Violin

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Romance No. 2, in F major, op. 50
Symphony No. 7, in A major, op. 92