"Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title of Jens Joneleit's new composition, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique are presenting in Berlin. This work brings Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony to new life. Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, as well as Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, were written in [...]
"Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title of Jens Joneleit's new composition, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique are presenting in Berlin. This work brings Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony to new life. Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, as well as Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, were written in [...]
In difficult times, people have always sought solace and support in community and not least in singing and making music together. This also applies to the era that produced our "classical music". Johann Christian Bach's Miserere was composed during the Seven Years' War. And Haydn wrote his Missa in angustiis ("in [...]
Beethoven was only fifteen years old when he began the sketches for his Piano Concerto in B flat major, op. 19. Schubert wrote his third symphony, op. 200, when he was eighteen, and Bizet his first symphony when he was seventeen. It is not surprising that in all three cases one senses how much these composers were inspired by their great role models at a young age [...].
"Réveil des oiseaux" is also a virtuoso piano concerto, for which we have Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a master pianist who was influenced by his encounter with Messiaen as a child. The work is based on faithful transcriptions of birdsong, which Messiaen revered as divine messages. These enigmatic sounds, which were heard on our planet long before [...]
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that do not tell a "programme" story and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: they express pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation. Each work represents a cosmos of its own, particularly evident in Friedrich Cerha's music, which spreads out a soundscape on over 300 percussion instruments. The energetic young exceptional virtuoso Vivi Vassileva [...]
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that do not tell a "programme" story and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: they express pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation. Each work represents a cosmos of its own, particularly evident in the case of Cerha, who spreads out a soundscape on over 300 percussion instruments. The energetic young exceptional virtuoso Vivi Vassileva is [...]
Compositions of tragic topicality. A concert in times of war. The Symphony Orchestra of Berlin University of the Arts, together with the Kammerchor der Künste Berlin and mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya under the direction of Steven Sloane, will set an example for peace on november 20 in the Berlin Philharmonie. Valentin Silvestrov's Prayer for Ukraine, Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, [...]
"You can hardly play the violin more expressively and uncompromisingly than Gringolts", writes Harald Eggebrecht in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about this exceptional musician. Ilya Gringolts won the renowned Paganini Competition at the age of 16. Since then, he has put his virtuosity at the service of subtle interpretations. Together with the Camerata Bern, he presents a programme from the end of the 17th [...]
The MDR Symphony Orchestra has a new chief conductor: the American Dennis Russell Davies, who enjoys an excellent reputation as a Haydn and Bruckner conductor. As an advocate of contemporary music, he has also worked with important composers such as John Cage, Philip Glass and Hans Werner Henze. Modernism is also a focal point of his work in Leipzig. Ergo, the joint [...]
