Programme 2009 (PDF) - Beethovenfest Bonn

B e e t h o v e n f e s t B o n n 4. 9. – 3. 10. 2 0 0 9
In the LIght
Simon halsey Scott MacAllister
Faith, hope, Love,
but no Salvation
the Struggle
of the two Souls
I n Romanticism many Baroque
choral works were »revived«,
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n the programme for the
Beethovenfest Bonn 2009 is
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sun 27 sePt 4 Pm
oPernhaus
including by Johannes Brahms. Philip Moll Piano
Wagner’s great romantic opera Ramaz Chikviladze Hermann
His affinity to Handel is more Philip Mayers Piano
about the minstrel Tannhäuser. Scott MacAllister Tannhäuser
than clear in many aspects: at Rundfunkchor Berlin
It is the story of an outsider and Lee Poulis Wolfram von Eschenbach
the world premiere of six finished Simon halsey Conductor
his conflict with social conventions. Ingeborg greiner Elisabeth
pieces of the »German Requiem« Johannes Brahms:
Tannhäuser is torn in two: he Daniela Denschlag Venus
in Bremen in 1868 he inserted »A German Requiem« to the
lives away from the world but has ensemble and Choir
the aria »I know that my Redeemer words of the Holy Scriptures
soon had enough of his pleasur­ of the theater Bonn
liveth« from Handel’s »Messiah« op. 45 for soloists, choir and
able life with the goddess of love Beethoven Orchester Bonn
after the fourth movement in orchestra (arrangement for
and longs to have his earthly Stefan Blunier Conductor
order to compensate for the piano four­handed by Johannes existence back. Thus he comes to Klaus Weise Director
»missing« thought of salvation; Brahms adapted by Philip Moll) the Wartburg, where a singers’ Richard Wagner:
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contest with the subject of »true »Tannhäuser und der
with all seven parts was not per­ Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.
love« becomes quite turbulent, Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg«
formed until almost a year later
in Leipzig. The popular »German
Readers’ concert of the General­Anzeiger.
Sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW.
whereupon Tannhäuser is
banished to go on a pilgrimage.
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A Theater Bonn production in cooperation
Requiem« can be heard at the
Beethovenfest Bonn in a version
for piano four­handed and choir,
however without Handel’s Messiah
composition.
with the Beethovenfest Bonn.
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