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Late masterpieces
16 November 2021 @ 20:00

"Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title for the new composition by Jens Joneleit, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique will present in Berlin. With this work, Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony are brought to new life.
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, like Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, were written during the last phase of their creators' lives. Only a few days before his death, Beethoven repeated in a letter his firm intention to complete his 10th Symphony - which, unfortunately, did not come to pass. "Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title of Jens Joneleit's new composition, which he wrote on behalf of Le Concert Olympique. With it, Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony are brought to new life. Joneleit's guiding idea is a journey of the incarnate Beethoven into the future. It is thus not a historical reconstruction, but a contemporary realization of Beethoven's intentions. This new piece is juxtaposed with Schubert's Symphony in B minor, D 759, probably the best known example of an unfinished work.
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, which the composer completed two months before his death, concludes the programme. The combination of the dark ground color of this piece with a relativizing, almost witty counter-mood is an expression of Mozart's ambivalent attitude toward his fate during this phase of his life. Sabine Meyer plays the original version for basset clarinet, a larger and therefore deeper and darker sounding clarinet.