Many artistic highlights and a final concert, which was broadcast live to Russia – a successful season for the Beethoven festival in Bonn. Nevertheless, it is planned in the coming years, a realignment.
The legendary conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev and the soloist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky celebrated in Bonn:
Standing Ovations and three encores – at the 29. September, the Beethoven festival in 2019, gloss to the full end of it: It played with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev, which is 87 years as the last of the legendary chief conductor of his Generation on the console.
Tschajkowsky Symphony orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev at the concert in Bonn
The purely Russian program made the festival motto “moonlight” all the glory with Modest Mussorgsky’s stormy “mountain night on the bare mountain”, a dark carnival of the Shape of darkness, or Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred”, a deeply personal, musical confession of a suffering soul. The young Russian Violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, who made his debut back in 2008, in Bonn, Germany, as an artist, the Campus project of the DW and the beethovenfest, excelled this time with Prokofiev’s spirited Second violin Concerto. “Who said, nightly themes and ‘moonlight’ were too quiet for a Festival, has today been proved wrong”, said festival Director Nike Wagner.
Live broadcast to Russia
The final concert also had a cultural-political Dimension: The concert was broadcast in cooperation with the Russian state-owned channel “Radio Kultura” live to Moscow.
Nike Wagner in conversation with a reporter Anastassia Boutsko during the Live broadcast to Russia
“This concert is a tribute to the great Russian music tradition and at the same time, the respectful meeting of two diverse connected cultural Nations. An encounter, which illustrates once again that music can overcome as a universal language, especially in difficult moments, sound and dissent, miss,” says DW Director General Peter Limbourg in a greeting to the radio audience in Russia.
A Bayreuth for Beethoven?
After the Festival is before the Festival: The festival is this time, in particular for the Beethoven – 2020 a large-scale anniversary season, but also the realignment thereafter has been in the visor. With your demanding programs and has developed the festival Director Nike Wagner, the Beethoven festival in 2014 to a intellectual work of art. Now the question is, how could it musically more accessible for anyone to be. Would perhaps need to be Beethoven’s obbligato centre of each concert?
In the Beethoven-to-noise: Fazil Say with Camerata Salzburg in Bonn
And also the question of whether Bonn could position itself as a sort of “Bayreuth Beethoven”, is a realignment of the Festivals in the area. Here are opinions of three artists of different generations: “We celebrate Beethoven throughout the year, and wherever we play him. The spirit of Beethoven exclude it, ‘to be caught’, and on a place reduced,” the Turkish Pianist Fazil Say, who, accompanied by the Camerata Salzburg, the 3. Piano Concerto of Beethoven in Bonn, and played. “Beethoven is in the flesh and blood of every musician,” the Russian veteran Vladimir Fedoseyev. “He is as a kind of deity as a parent figure, always there in every sound. If we are playing Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky or Mahler, we can play Beethoven.” And the Violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky says: “For me, Beethoven is a Symbol for constant self-renewal. To be today the spirit of Beethoven’s loyalty, it means to create something New.”