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Berlin  14-06-2010

 

Starting on Sunday  June 20^th until the following Sunday June the 27^th, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will undertake a Beethoven/Bruckner/cyclus performing the last 6 of the Bruckner Symphonies along with  all five Beethoven piano concerti and the violin concerto.

The concerts will take place  in Berlin’s Philharmonie – actually home of the competing Berlin Philharmonic – however the Staats Oper the usual home of the Staatskapelle orchestra  on the  ’Unter-den-Linden’ has just started a complete renovation.

Barenboim will conduct the Beethoven concertos from the piano, the Bruckner symphonies from the podium  and Frank Peter Zimmermann will perform the violin concerto ………we presume and hope standing with his violin in his arms!

We greatly appreciate the artistic comparison and programming dynamics which pairing Beethoven + Bruckner together can bring – good for Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin to take this initiative!

Bruckner and Beethoven do fit well together like for example coffee and milk – one adds to the other – historically we know that Bruckner [as well as Brahms] adored Beethoven.

Beethoven had long passed away by the time Bruckners symphonies starting making waves and it would have been great to have heard Beethovens opinions of them – alas this will have to wait until some creative soul takes this up in a movie or writes it up.

The  comments about Bruckner having written the same symphony nine different times notwithstanding – his stolid symphonies will combine well with the dynamic Beethoven concerti.

It could be an idea to also present Bruckners epic and magnus-opus work ‘Te Deum’ alongside Beethoven’s great masterpiece the  ’Missa Solemnis’.

On second thought – after having heard either of these works – they are so emotionally astronomic, so vastly herioc and monumental works that after hearing either one – you don’t really want to hear anything else for at least 24 hours!

There is a famous caricature from the Vienese newspaper  after the death of Anton Bruckner showing him being welcomed and greeted in heaven by all the greats including Beethoven, Bach, Mozart …and other biggies!

While Barenboim’s Beethoven is really fabulous – both as pianist and conductor -he understands him and likes him- not everyone is completely taken by Barenboim’s Bruckner.

For the sake of adding some other points of view we provide the following link -for a thoughtful but critcal review of his conducting of the Bruckner symphonies  – http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.music.classical.recordings/2010-05/msg01682.html

-PROGRAM-

Su 20 Jun 2010 | 20.00 h

Conductor and Soloist Daniel Barenboim

 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 15  
 
 
ANTON BRUCKNER  
Sinfonie Nr. 4 Es-Dur »Romantische« (Fassung von 1878/80)
 

Mo 21 Jun 2010 | 20.00 h

Conductor and Soloist Daniel Barenboim

 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 37  
 
 
ANTON BRUCKNER  
Sinfonie Nr. 5 B-Dur (Originalfassung)
 

Tu 22 Jun 2010 | 20.00 h

- BEETHOVEN-BRUCKNER ZYKLUS

Conductor Daniel Barenboim
Violin Frank Peter Zimmermann

 
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Violinkonzert D-Dur op. 61  
 
 
ANTON BRUCKNER  
Sinfonie Nr. 6 A-Dur (Originalfassung)
 

Fr 25 Jun 2010 | 20.00 h

Conductor and Soloist Daniel Barenboim

 
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 G-Dur op. 58  
 
ANTON BRUCKNER  
Sinfonie Nr. 7 E-Dur (Originalfassung)
 

Philharmonie Berlin

Sa 26 Jun 2010 | 20.00 h

Staatskapelle Berlin

- BEETHOVEN-BRUCKNER ZYKLUS

Conductor and Soloist Daniel Barenboim

 
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 B-Dur op. 19  
 
ANTON BRUCKNER  
Sinfonie Nr. 8 c-Moll (Edition Robert Haas)
 

Su 27 Jun 2010 | 20.00 h

- BEETHOVEN-BRUCKNER ZYKLUS

Conductor and Soloist Daniel Barenboim

 
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  
Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 Es-Dur op. 73  
 
ANTON BRUCKNER  
Sinfonie Nr. 9 d-Moll (Originalfassung)
 

This last concert is sold out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Tickets for concerts;

http://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/en_EN/content/program_concert_beethovenbruckner

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