Programme 2010 (PDF) - Beethovenfest Bonn

Beethovenfest Bonn 10 s e P – 9 o C t 2010 Into the oPen. Utopia and Freedom in Music.
Christiane Karg
Longing and
Fulfilment
T his concert tells the love story
of clara and Robert schumann
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sun 12 seP 1 1 a m
Beethoven-h aus
through three works that were Christiane Karg soprano
composed in 1840, the year in Lothar odinius Tenor
which they married under very Burkhard Kehring piano
difficult circumstances. While Robert Schumann:
the song cycle »Myrthen« is still »Tragödie« (»Tragedy«).
dedicated to the clara Wieck of Ballad based on a text by
his affections and the words are Heinrich Heine op. 64/3
full of longing and melancholy, Robert Schumann:
»Liebesfrühling«, as the title »Myrthen«. song cycle for voice
[»spring of Love«] fittingly and piano op. 25 (selection)
reveals, is full of fulfilment. Clara and Robert Schumann:
This song cycle is the first joint Twelve poems from Friedrich
composition by the young couple. Rückert’s »Liebesfrühling«
Three songs were composed (»spring of Love«) op. 37
by clara, the rest by Robert
schumann.
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Wiener Masken- und Musiktheater
how Musicians tick
A fter the success of the »Disaster
concert« at the Beethovenfest
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sun 12 seP
11 am and 2 P m
2009 the Wiener Maskentheater 6 Pantheon
will battle the pitfalls of concert f amI ly ConC ert
life once more with a one-hour Wiener Maskenevent
in 2010. Together with the und Musiktheater
comically gifted musicians of the Angelika Kippenberg August
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie thomas Kippenberg Arthur
Bremen the clownish duo will Members of the Deutsche
introduce the »job descriptions« Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
of the orchestra manager and »too slow, too loud, too
the soloist and/or conductor. smooth: the soloists and the
Mutated into orchestra manager master of the tempo«
August and conductor Arthur For children aged 6 to 10
with the help of masks and pil- e 9
lows stuffed under their shirts,
they will bring the adventure of
classical music to life for children
by showing what makes musicians
tick, and of course the
whole thing will be a lot of fun!
sponsored by Knauber.
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