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Friday, 30 March 2012
Coming onto the stage with ten of Beethoven’s sonatas in the programme requires not only respect and involvement from the artist, but also artistic humility. Embarking on such a responsible task, one needs to acquire all the knowledge about the composer, his times, and the origins of his music, yet even when you have already read everything ...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
The orchestra expects the conductor to be the first among equals, to set the orchestra on the right path. If the conductor fails to take advantage of this opportunity, given by virtue of his function, he will not be respected enough. First of all you have to demand a lot from yourself, and then from the orchestra. You have to bring your own vision ...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Since their “official” debut during the Salzburg Mozart Week (January 1994), the Altenberg Trio Wien – one of the few full-time piano trios in the world of chamber music – has in far more than 1,000 performances earned the reputation of one of the most daring and consistent ensembles in this category. Its repertory ...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
We are in for a thrilling performance by the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra with its charismatic conductor Valery Gergev. This arguably busiest conductor in the world does not feel tired. “I always find motivation to work,” he says, “even greater than in the early 1990s, when the point was to make the theatre survive the ...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Not only the Warsaw music lovers can enjoy the performances of Beethoven Easter Festival artists. Like in previous years, the Ludwig van Beethoven Association, in collaboration with local institutions, organizes the concerts in other Polish cities. Thus, Michel Lethiec, Kaja Danczowska, Edgar Moreau and Yeol Eum Son will perform in Radom (2 ...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
“This is no attempt at solving the academic issue: “Beethoven – Classical or Romantic?” What matters is the work of music. It is quite doubtful that any of the thousands of forgotten classical 18th-century symphonies openly expressed any great idea. This symphony certainly expresses one. Beethoven’s earlier symphonies ...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
With two days of the festival already behind us, tonight is another evening with the great Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. “The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen grows into an orchestra that accepts no compromises. Hearing them play and observing these musicians on stage, you come to a conclusion that they put all their energies into ...
Monday, 26 March 2012
We are in for another evening with Schumann’s symphonies and the great Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On 27 March, we will hear Symphony No. 2 in C major Op. 61 and Symphony No. 3 in E flat major “Rhenish” Op. 97.
“Amongst all of Schumann’s symphonies, the Symphony No. 2 experienced the greatest ...
Monday, 26 March 2012
“Yesterday the audience at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall witnessed splendid performances from the conductor, the orchestra and the soloists, rewarding the artists with sustained applause,” we read in Gazeta Wyborcza (26 March 2012) about the Beethoven Academy Orchestra’s performance during the inaugural concert of the 16th Ludwig ...
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Following the extraordinary success of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies, the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen prepared a new project of Robert Schumann’s complete symphonies, writes Anna Dębowska in Beethoven Magazine No. 14. “The project was put together to mark the bicentenary of ...
