Over 2000 artists have been busy this year with the Bonn Beethoven festival with the theme of “fate”. The Motto was to stringently and exciting implemented. The sale could be somewhat better.
Different, the two pieces could not have been at the final concert of the beethovenfest. Alone the movements of the conductor Michael Boder, the conductor of the Symphony orchestra of the Austrian broadcasting Corporation, spoke for themselves. Morton Feldman “Coptic Light” for orchestra of 1986, he conducted behavior accurately. Finally, the aim was to develop sound colors, in which the sounds of individual instruments groups, while again and again came to the fore, but without the concrete or to change the volume in the sound carpet is essential.
Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony
Experienced in old and new Repertoire, the conductor Michael Boder
Quite different of Anton Bruckner 9. Symphony in d minor, Michael Boder, with expansive movements of everything from the orchestra pulled out, whatever is in the piece: a Huge string passages, the sweet melodies of lead or disharmonious chords, the heap, and then abruptly in a harmonious euphony to be collected.
The quiet passages, both in the case of Feldman, as well as in the case of Bruckner requested straight from the brass section of the highest concentration. Their performance was appreciated by the audience, with a special round of applause. During the subsequent reception, artistic Director Nike Wagner confessed that she had liked Bruckner never really particularly, a recording of Bruckner’s ninth under the Boder have you convinced. “He is the ideal artist to connect modern music with heavy, heirlooms of the repertoire,” said the conductor.
Satisfaction with God, and the Rhine countries
Bruckner dedicated his last and unfinished Symphony, the “Love God”. Seriously ill, he should have asked for more time for the completion of his work. “The love of God is likely to be highly satisfied and the Rhine countries,” said Nike Wagner, and not meant only to the performance of Bruckner’s ninth, but the whole of the Beethoven, which this year is under the Motto of “fate”.
Nike Wagner is satisfied with the implementation of the fate motto
The music, which is dominated by the fate of their composers, of war, or Exile, of grief or illness. As the Central plant for the Motto of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, called “Symphony of Destiny”. Ludwig van Beethoven was composed hard of hearing when he, and later became deaf. His fate, he took not just as a given, but fought against it, he composed. This educational approach of the fate concept has followed Nike Wagner beethovenfest.
“Three weeks, we have seized fate by the throat,” she said at the conclusion, in a reference to a famous Beethoven quote, “in Figures, this means that we have brought 57 performances on the stage”. The Motto and versatile program would have found a lot of praise and response from the audience, says Wagner.
Beethoven firmly attract students
However, couldn’t also exceed this year the capacity utilization of the 70 per cent mark. Because the Bonn Beethoven hall will be rebuilt as a traditional venue for the event still, now the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB), and there are some measures taken to improve the acoustics for smaller Ensembles.
In the great hall of the WCCB, the final concert took place, unfortunately this year will not out of stock. Perhaps some would have expected to complete but, once again, a brilliant Beethoven piece, but perhaps it is also the well-known Problem for classical concerts, to attract a young audience.
In this case, the Beethoven festival, working in special projects to students. Under the Motto”Ludwig and You,” there are different events for young people. Over 1000 pupils recorded at the opening of the Festival various stages in the city centre. For the concert of the “Music:Eyes – SymFusion” were asked Bonner students aged 15 to 18 years of age, designed with the support of this concert and independently organized. In the 3D-work of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was enriched with electronic sounds and with the appropriate Software visualizes. In addition, different interpreters of the Beethoven festival, school classes and organized Workshops attended or explained the pieces of her concerts.
To bring Beethoven to the people
As in the past year, various concerts were held at 25 venues in Bonn and the surrounding area. Particularly chamber orchestra and small Ensembles were rooms in the old Castle, churches or Museum to Shine the rooms. The string ensemble Camerata Bern, directed by the enthusiastic barefoot-playing violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, enthusiastic with old and new religious works. The had staged the Ensemble so that, in spite of the various sounds create an exciting work of art was created, without any applause.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja is not only delighted with your violin playing
Also, the two Piano duos Jost & Costa and Gerwig & Gonzalez, who played eight-handed, engaged the audience in their spell. Only a few compositions, there are for eight hands, but some of the edits, so, too, Beethoven’s Fifth, for two pianos eight-hands, by Carl Burchard. The piano version make the Symphony more transparent, Yseult Jost said: “it is possible To cope with an idea of the structure of the motivic work, and the way in which Beethoven subjects is dealt with.” The four virtuosos are an example of this is that fate can also have a happy coincidence. The two Duos met ten years ago at a piano competition in Norway. Fate, Efrain Gonzáles Ruano: “It was fate that we got in Norway, both the first place and it was determined that we would play at the Beethoven festival.”
In addition to the major themes and series of Festivals these discoveries, stories and experiments on the edge, that make up the charm of the Beethoven festival. Often they are based on ideas of Nike Wagner.
Before the anniversary year 2020, Beethoven 2019 comes
András Schiff: to be alone with Mahogany wings is an eye-catcher
Among the major themes of the festival-among others-the piano sonatas-weekend with the acclaimed pianist Andras Schiff and his former student Dénes Várjon in front of an enthusiastic audience. Also, the Rhineland focus with the historic pieces that may have influenced Beethoven in his time, was much appreciated.
At the end of the Beethoven festival, the course for the next year are already in place. The Motto is “moonlight”. Not hard to guess that this is probably Beethoven’s famous moon will play music with a certain role. The Beethoven festival in Bonn in 2019 will be held from 6. up to 29. September.