"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 the last phase of their creators' lives. Just a few days before his death, Beethoven repeated in a letter his firm intention to complete his 10th Symphony - which unfortunately never came to pass. "Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title of Jens Joneleit's new composition, which he wrote on behalf of Le Concert Olympique. It revives Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony. Joneleit's guiding idea is to take the Beethoven in the flesh on a journey into the future. It is therefore 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 basic color of this piece with a relativizing, almost humorous counter-mood is an expression of Mozart's ambivalent attitude towards his fate in this phase of his life. Sabine Meyer plays the original version for basset clarinet, a larger and therefore deeper and darker sounding clarinet.
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