Ludwig van Beethoven remains the sovereign in the quota kingship, even after the commemoration of the 250th birthday. The symphonies, the string quartets all tapped and questioned, now again the 32 entertainingly arousing ones Beethoven's piano sonatas gathered, played by the 1984 born in Moscow Boris Giltburgwho came to Israel with his family as a child. A kind of antipode to the ubiquitous Igor Levit, also of Russian descent, grew up in Hanover. An "opponent" stylistically, in terms of content,...
On April 13, 1992 around 3:30 in the morning, people in the Rhineland were awakened by an earthquake. With a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale, the largest earthquake ever measured north of the Alps, caused considerable damage between Heinsberg and Cologne. The walls of the Bonn Minster, however, the earliest surviving parts of which were almost 1000 years old, seemed miraculously to have survived the tremors almost unaffected.Beethoven learned to play the organ in the MünsterBonn Minster is...
Beethoven's ten piano-violin sonatas are about the development of the instrumental conversation between equal partners. While the three sonatas op. 12 are still dominated by the piano, a multi-layered, networked dialogue already takes place in the three works op. In the "Kreutzer Sonata" op. 47, Beethoven then demands a combative confrontation between piano and violin, truly a double concerto of virtuoso symphonic confrontation.Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen achieved all of this at the matinee in the Prinzregententheater, as excited...
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...
