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DIGITAL CONCERTSBEETHOVEN: 250 YEARS YOUNG This concert was filmed at CBSO Centre, Birmingham on Friday 4 December 2020

Beethoven String Quintet in C, Op.29, ‘The Storm’ 35’

Widmann 180 Beats per minute 6’

Beethoven Sextet in E flat for two horns and strings, Op.81b 17’

Happy birthday, Ludwig van B! Yes, today’s the day, and as Beethoven hits the big 2-5-0 he’s as lively, as irreverent, as challenging and (of course) as passionate as ever. But don’t picture a grey-haired maestro with a fearsome frown: today we celebrate the young genius – wild-eyed, tousle-haired, and creating music to delight, astonish and entertain. Handpicked teams of CBSO players perform two of his joyous early chamber works – a playful, rarely-heard sextet, and his sweeping Romantic landscape of a string quintet. Plus a real little zinger by Jörg Widmann – a good friend of the CBSO and a composer who’s definitely on Beethoven’s wavelength. Come and join the party: this is going to be fun!

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

String Quintet in C, Op.29, ‘The Storm’Allegro moderato

Adagio molto espressivo

Scherzo (Allegro)

Presto

Musical evenings at the house of Count Moritz von Fries in Vienna could be lively affairs. At one such occasion in May 1800, the visiting piano virtuoso Daniel Steibelt sat yawning through Beethoven’s new clarinet trio Op.11, before, a week later, ostentatiously improvising a set of flashy variations on one of Beethoven’s melodies. Beethoven, furious, grabbed the cello part of Steibelt’s own quintet, barged his way to the keyboard and, placing Steibelt’s music upside down on the desk, launched into his own thunderous improvisation. Steibelt stormed out.

Beethoven, however, felt no enmity towards Count von Fries, who was a skilled amateur violinist and something of a fan. In September 1801 Beethoven dedicated his Spring sonata to Fries. And around the same time, he also wrote a string quintet, dedicated to the Count and allocated to him, for his exclusive private enjoyment, for a period of six months – after which Beethoven had arranged to have it published by Breitkopf and Härtel of Leipzig. At the age of 31, Beethoven was a shrewd businessman: he knew exactly what sort of chamber music was popular, and what would sell.

Unfortunately, the Count doesn’t seem to have been quite so canny. At some point during his six-month stewardship of the quintet, the publisher Artaria of Vienna obtained the Count’s copy and released an unauthorised edition. Beethoven hit the roof: a letter to Breitkopf in November 1802 hints at his outrage:

When I was away in the country for the good of my health, the arch-swindler Artaria begged for the Quintet from Count Fries, claiming that it was already in print here, and that they merely wished to delight the public. Poor Count Fries fell for it, never suspecting any foul play…the whole matter is the greatest fraud in the world.

Clearly, the Quintet was a property worth fighting for. And yet Beethoven never wrote another: this was to remain his only full-scale, wholly original work for the combination of instruments – string quartet plus a second viola – for which Mozart wrote some of his most personal chamber music. Mozart found that the Quintet form allowed him to open out the musical texture – to sing, and to express emotion in its own space. Beethoven was on a very different creative path.

But listen to the flowing, expansive opening bars of the Quintet Op.29 and there can be little doubt that Mozart (not for the first time in Beethoven’s career) was a potent inspiration – his C major Quintet K.515 (1787) begins by creating the same sense of breadth and limitless scale. And there’s no mistaking the spirit of freedom and play as Beethoven explores what he can do with his top and bottom instruments once they’ve been liberated by that second viola. The first violin enters, chirruping like a bird (or, if you prefer, winking like a soubrette) high above the unfolding musical landscape, before getting down to vigorous and high-spirited business.

The Adagio unfurls its sensuous, lyrical melody over a gentle cello pizzicato: if Beethoven was cribbing from Mozart, there can be little doubt that when Schubert wrote the corresponding movement of his own C major Quintet in 1828, he was thinking of Beethoven. The Scherzo almost seems float, before the first viola takes the lead in a lilting central trio section. But in the finale: what’s happening? Beethoven unleashes a driving tremolando rainstorm, with violin and cello whirling like leaves caught in a summer squall (in German-speaking countries, the Quintet is even nicknamed The Storm).

And then, just as Beethoven starts to flex his muscles, there’s a sudden halt, a change of speed, and he’s suddenly exchanging formal courtesies in a stately (if suspiciously irreverent) mock-baroque manner. It’s pure comic opera. A joke at the expense of his salon rivals (Steibelt reportedly liked to dress up classical cliches with flashy, pseudo-romantic devices such as tremolando)? Or is this a glimpse of Beethoven, amongst friends and in a playful mood, getting as close as he ever did to Mozart’s ideal of chamber music that was lyrical, playful and unashamedly dramatic – in short, a kind of opera without words?

Programme note © Richard Bratby

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Jörg Widmann (1809-47)

180 Beats per minute180 Beats per minute was composed in 1993 shortly after I had left school. My inspiration for this piece was the then highly popular, fast “techno beats”. A rhythmic drive and permanent change of pulse whizzes past at maximum speed (180 beats per minute). The structure becomes condensed into a study on a one single chord which in principle is varied throughout the entire piece while remaining constant from the aspect of its tonal material. Ultimately, the music fuses into a six-voice canon, wandering through all instruments from the first violin to the third cello and oscillating between a major and minor third. The work makes no claims to be more than the sum of its parts – the sheer enjoyment of rhythm.

Programme note © Jörg Widmann

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Sextet in E flat for two horns and strings, Op.81bAllegro con brio

Adagio

Rondo: Allegro

Beethoven didn’t think much of this piece – in fact, he didn’t even think very much about it. Take its opus number. Chronologically, it seems to place the Sextet at the peak of Beethoven’s “second period” – around 1810, somewhere between the Les Adieux sonata and the incidental music to Goethe’s Egmont. The reality is rather different – it predates his Op.1. Beethoven seems to have composed the piece in Vienna in late 1794 or early 1795. He simply didn’t bother publishing it for 15 years, presumably after

a thorough rummage around his famously chaotic apartment. “Sextet of mine” he scribbled on the manuscript first horn part. “God knows where the rest of it is”.

Yet there’s no better illustration of Beethoven’s position at the turning-point of two musical eras than this exuberant Sextet for a pair of horns and a string quartet. The 19th century called this piece a Sextet, labeling it forever as chamber music (with all its domestic connotations). In form and spirit, however, this is outdoor music – as close as Beethoven ever got to the classical Divertimento à la Mozart. Try to imagine those two horns in full cry in an elegant Viennese drawing room! But then again, it’s hard to imagine horn playing as virtuosic and flamboyant as this being relegated to background music – or the average Viennese street band having players of the necessary calibre.

No, this Sextet is yet another example (like the String Trio Op.3 and the Piano and Wind Quintet Op.16) of Beethoven’s youthful creative energy and love of Mozart looking for a form and not quite finding it. If there’s any direct model for the Sextet, it’s surely Mozart’s horn concertos (particularly in the galloping finale). But having decided to write something for the horn-playing Bonn publisher Nicolaus Simrock (a boyhood acquaintance) Beethoven went one better, and composed what’s effectively a double horn concerto, with horn parts even more tongue-twisting than anything in Mozart’s chamber music – and then tried to make the whole thing a chamber work.

No wonder the older Beethoven was so relaxed about the Sextet’s fate. Commentators often write of Beethoven’s early music “straining the bounds of classical form”, and while that’s not really true here – the Sextet’s three short movements are deftly and stylishly proportioned – it’s definitely the case that the Sextet requires some seriously good players. The result gives us a spirited and entertaining portrait of a young composer paying his dues, and gives horn players then and now an irresistible work-out. And it does it all with wit, enthusiasm and (in the poised, Haydn-like Adagio) real beauty. The 25-year-old Beethoven aims to charm, amuse and delight – and 225 years later, he still does exactly that.

Programme note © Richard Bratby

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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN IPhilip BrettCharlotte Skinner *Kate Suthers*Georgia Hannant *

VIOLAChris Yates *

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CELLOEduardo Vassallo *

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Miguel Fernandes *Helen Edgar *

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HORNMark Phillips *

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Under the baton of its Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and one of the world’s great orchestras.

Based in Symphony Hall, the ochestra gives over 150 concerts each year in Birmingham, the UK and around the world, playing music that ranges from classics to contemporary, film music and even symphonic disco. With a far-reaching community programme and a family of choruses and ensembles, it is involved in every aspect of music-making in the Midlands. But at its centre is a team of 75 superb professional musicians, and a 100-year tradition of making the world’s greatest music, right here in the heart of Birmingham.

That local tradition started with the orchestra’s very first symphonic concert in 1920 – conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. Ever since then, through war, recessions, social change and civic renewal, the CBSO has been proud to be Birmingham’s orchestra. Under principal conductors including Adrian Boult, George Weldon, Andrzej Panufnik and Louis Frémaux, the CBSO won an artistic reputation that spread far beyond the Midlands. But it was when it discovered the young British conductor Simon Rattle in 1980 that the CBSO became internationally

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Rattle’s successors Sakari Oramo (1998-2008) and Andris Nelsons (2008-15) helped cement that global reputation, and continued to build on the CBSO’s tradition of flying the flag for Birmingham. As the only professional symphony orchestra based between Bournemouth and Manchester, the orchestra tours regularly in Britain – and much further afield. The orchestra has travelled to Japan and the United Arab Emirates in previous seasons, and in December 2016 made its debut tour of China. And its recordings continue to win acclaim. In 2008, the CBSO’s recording of Saint-Saëns’ complete piano concertos was named the best classical recording of the last 30 years by Gramophone.

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Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Officer Lindsey Bhagania†Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical Manager Daniel Rowlinson*Assistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionists Sev Kucukogullari†

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