The welcoming applause in the Hall of Mirrors at Herrenchiemsee Palace has just reached its climax when, jumping onto the podium, Clemens Schuldt gives the Munich Chamber Orchestra the entry for Beethoven's Fifth. From there to the numerous whipping final chords of this symphony of symphonies, there is a level of energy and a desire to make music that any measuring device would collapse.But after a last subscription concert in the Prinzregententheater (fourth with Beethoven), an equally great Gubaidulina portrait...
The world-renowned showpiece of the National Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona is a 900-year-old fresco of Jesus that once adorned the apse of the Romanesque church of Sant Climent in Taüll, located in what is still a difficult-to-reach Pyrenean valley. Jesus is shown as an energetic ruler of the world. Despite the stylization, the slender face appears lively, the eyes are wide awake, and the hair and beard are fashionably styled. It is the timeless image of a doer, a...
Video Artificial intelligence and Beethoven's "unfinished" 10th symphony Beethoven's "unfinished" 10th symphony has been further completed with the help of artificial intelligence. Ludwig van Beethoven did not finish the work before his death in 1827. But for the anniversary of his 250th birthday last year, the piece has now been written on by computers on the basis of his notes and notes. The conductor Dirk Kaftan recently said in Bonn: O-TON DIRK KAFTAN "It is not the case that the...
From this Friday on you can hear Ludwig van Beethoven's Tenth Symphony on CD and in the stream (BMG), on Saturday the live premiere is in Bonn, with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn under Dirk Kaftan and the organist Cameron Carpenter, the concert is in the live stream to be experienced from 7 p.m. (Telekom). Beethoven's tithe? The composer never composed a tithe, but he did leave sketches for it. They have now been composed using artificial intelligence. The expectations are...
Open detailed viewJohn Eliot Gardiner rehearsing Missa solemnis a year ago. (Photo: Astrid Ackermann)The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra actually wanted to perform the "Missa solemnis" in April 2020 on Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday. For known reasons, it largely fell into the water, as did for the orchestra for most of the following year. The fact that the BR Symphony Orchestra are now opening the new season with one of the most important works of sacred music is in keeping...
