Equal to twice the Beethoven will be celebrated in 2020, in the spring and in the autumn. Now, there was first news of the anniversary program.. well-known artists such as Teodor Currentzis, and Igor Levit will be part of it.
The Federal President and the Federal government have Ludwig van Beethoven in the 250. The year after his birth long ago to the “national task”. Under the project name BTHVN2020 of the Beethoven jubilee GmbH to flow again and again Fördergelde. Far and wide is thought the composer in the coming year – and nowhere more than in his birth city of Bonn.
Recently, the Beethoven was presented to the house of Bonn to be a year-round special program. Now the Beethoven to the sets and was present at the International tourism exchange (ITB) in Berlin, a first Outlook on his program in the anniversary year.
Twice Beethoven
The Festival usually takes place for three weeks in September, then in a double circulation: once in spring, once in autumn.
Already as a thirteen-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven was Deputy-Organist in Bonn
For the season, in the spring, the Feast of Teodor Currentzis and musicaeterna. The Greek-Russian conductor and he founded the original sound of the orchestra from the Russian city of Perm will be playing all nine symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven. The five concert evenings in March 2020 are now traded as a Highlight of the Beethoven year, because performances with Currentzis are considered to be fresh, radical and uncompromising.
Furthermore, there is a re-enactment of five commissioned works of the Beethovenfest from the past five years. Composers from Austria, Germany, Russia, France, and Italy were asked to write a new work and a work of Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. All five compositions are then in March – in this month of the anniversary of the death of Beethoven falls listed – from well-known orchestras from the respective countries.
The Ninth Symphony was not performed at the beethovenfest for many years. In 2020, it will be sounded three times.
Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven
For the main season from the 4. up to 27. September 2020, there will be a re-encounter with Beethoven’s symphonies, this time in the Piano transcriptions of Franz Liszt. Then pianists occur, such as in the Odessa-born choice of German Boris Bloch, the Russian Konstantin Scherbakov, or the well-known French-Cypriot Pianist Cyprien Katsaris.
At the beginning of the autumn edition there is also an appearance with sensation-value: No different than the orchestra of the Bayreuth festival, then to a guest in Bonn. On the program is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a work that the honourable Richard Wagner and almost the only work of the composer, sounded in addition to Wagner’s own music in the Bayreuther Festspielhaus. Here, too, the handwriting of the since 2014 President of the intendant of the Beethovenfest, it is clear that Nike Wagner is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, the founder of the Bayreuth festival and Great-great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt.
Anne-Sophie mutter has promised
A Central theme of the beethovenfest in 2020 will be “Fidelio”: in addition to a performance of Beethoven’s only Opera, three other Opera works of his contemporaries with similar subject matter presented.
Among the big names on the festival program, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with the star violinist Anne-Sophie mutter, the Academia di Santa Cecilia from Italy with conductor Antonio Pappano and the Pianist Igor Levit.
The programs of the Beethovenfest and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn are only a part of the festivities in the Beethoven anniversary year; other activities will be announced in the coming weeks and months.