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etamorphoses” is the motto we have chosen for the Beethovenfest Bonn 2013. This motto is reflected in various ways in the festival programme: in musical forms such as variations, arrange-ments, adaptations; in questions of staging; through boun d ary-crossers who transplant their traditional roots into new musical forms; and through composers who further develop genre traditions established by Beethoven. Ensembles such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, the Deutsche Kammerphilhar-monie Bremen with Paavo Järvi and Kent Nagano, the NDR Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Hen-gelbrock and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott are, as “resident orchestras”, presenting their own positions as traditions change. András Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Rudolf Buchbinder and many other outstanding soloists will be introducing their Beethoven interpretations for the twenty-first century. Among the musicians demonstrating their versatility both programma-tically and in respect of concert formats are Martin Grubinger, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Cameron Carpenter, Dorothee Oberlinger, David Fray and Pekka Kuusisto. Their performances are so com-pelling that they sweep their audiences – that means you! – directly into their musical worlds.I should like to thank all our backers, sponsors and foundations along with our patron, state premier Hannelore Kraft, for the years of con-fidence they have shown in the Beethovenfest and our programmes, and for their magnificent support!

Ilona SchmielDirector of the Beethovenfest Bonn

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In Focus: Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

The concerts in the Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription prices: ? 149 I 119 I 89

The Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle is sponsored by General-Anzeiger.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano op. 31 nos. 1 to 3 and 53 (“Waldstein Sonata”)

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano op. 90, 101 and 106 (“Hammerklavier Sonata”)

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Christoph Vratz talking with András Schiff. Admission free.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano op. 54, 57 (“Appassionata”), 78, 79 and 81a (“Les Adieux”)

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano op. 109, 110 and 111

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e-encounter with András Schiff: following his brilliant concerts at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2012, the Hungarian pianist will continue and conclude his cycle of all the Beethoven Piano Sonatas at the coming festival. There has never been any doubt about what makes this great artist so exceptional: András Schiff brings all his know-ledge and talent to the ears of his listeners by submerging himself in the works and entering into dialogue with them. In 2006 he was elected an honorary member of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn in recog-nition of his extraordinary status as an interpreter of Beethoven.

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The concerts in the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 115

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String Quartet Cyclehere is probably no other ensemble which has confronted the

two most important composers of the quartet genre – Beethoven and Shostakovich – so profoundly and over such a long period as the Borodin Quartet. “Leader Ruben Aharonian along with Sergey Lomovsky (2nd violin), Igor Naidin (viola) and Vladimir Balshin (cello) represent a tradition in which homogeneous euphony, warmth and purity of sound are an indispensable component of musical expres-sion.” (Bonner General-Anzeiger, 26 Sept. 2012) In a three-year residency in Bonn, the ensemble will be playing all of Beethoven’s String Quartets at a total of twelve concerts, along with the most important Russian works for this formation.

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String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich

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e’s a crazy border crosser in classical music, who wows his audience at the drop of a hat. Matthew Barley, avantgarde cellist and improviser, feels at home in all periods. In the Britten anniversary ye ar, he is exploring the line of tradition from Johann Sebastian Bach via Benjamin Britten all the way to new works involving electronics and improvisation.

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Matthew Barley Cello, Electronics, Video

Dai Fujikura: “The Spirit of Beings” (with electronics, German premiere) Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor BWV 1011John Tavener: “Thrinos”Benjamin Britten: Suite for cello solo No. 3 op. 87Jan Bang/Matthew Barley: “Noticing Things“ Remix of Fujikura work, with improvised cello part (German premiere)James MacMillan: “And He Rose” for solo cello (German premiere)? 22

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… and Workshopatthew Barley is not only a

virtuoso cellist, but also a specialist in the concert as a “social event”. He possesses the rare ability to weld together a group of very different people, amateurs and professionals alike, into a single ensemble. The Bonner Ensemble, con-sisting of some 20 school and college students, will be play-ing and improvising together in a concert to mark the com-pletion of the workshop.

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String orchestra (Workshop partici- pants: school and college students)

Matthew Barley Cello, Conductor

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t the Young Beethovenfest Bonn, young people can experi-ence a classical music festival close up. Children, teenagers, trainees and college students can take part in workshops, experience the work that goes on backstage, and meet the artists performing at the festival.

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The Young Beethovenfest Bonn 2013 recommends the follow-ing projects and concerts:

• “Student managers” School students from Bonn organize a concert with Cameron Carpenter

• “Questions” School students interview artists

• “Backstage” A day at the festival

• “How does it work?” Artists visit schools

• Rehearsal visits Rehearsal visits with introductions

• Workshop Igudesman & Joo Instrumentalists from 8 to 88 are cordially invited

• “Young and curious – Beethoven for trainees” Concert and workshop

• Campus encounters 2013 Meetings with musicians from the Istanbul University State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra

• “Music is communication” Students from the Johannes Gutenberg School make music

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• “Heimat/Herkunft/Umbruch” Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Bonn school students – Encounters theoretical and musical

• Improvisation with Matthew Barley Strings workshop and concert with young string-players between 15 and 30

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Cameron Carpenter & Daniel Rossa

Concert of the “Student managers” project

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“Clear the stage for Beethoven”School students make music in the city centre

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Programme in Chronological Order


“Die Akte Beethoven” (“The Beethoven File”)

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“Die Akte Beethoven”(“The Beethoven File”)Dramatized documentatry film by Hedwig Schmutte and Ralf Pleger(A, 52 Min.)With the actors Lars Eidinger and Pheline Roggan together with Jan Caeyers Beethoven biografer Lars Vogt Pianist Simone Young conductor and directorof the Hamburg State Opera Julia Ronge Beethoven-Haus and Prof. Hans-Peter Zenner ENT Clinic, Tübingen

he cultural detective film “Die Akte Beethoven” (“The Beethoven File”) throws new light on one of the biggest puzzles in musical history. How could a deaf com-poser create some of the most outstanding works of all time? In a mix of documentary, drama-tization and animation, the film tells the moving story of a great composer. “Die Akte Beethoven” is part of the TV series “Die Kulturakte” (“The Culture File”) to be broadcast on ARTE in September 2013.

Admission is free, but advance booking is necessary under [email protected]

Produced by Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduk-tion, in association with WDR and ARTE. Sponsored by the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and MEDIA.

An event organized by Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion in co-operation with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn and the Beethoven-fest Bonn.

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Dresden’s Powerful Sounds


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Staatskapelle Dresden

Christian Thielemann Conductor

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor WAB 108? 120 I 100 I 80 I 60 I 40

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201hristian Thielemann recently opened his first season as prin-cipal conductor of Staatskapelle Dresden with a Bruckner sym-phony. In April he will come to Bonn with Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. Thielemann, whose extensive repertoire ranges from Bach to Henze and Gubaidulina, is confronting this pinnacle achieve-ment of Bruckner’s symphonic works, a work the com poser himself described as a “mystery”. Together with the powerful sounds of the Staatskapelle Dresden, which Richard Wagner described as a “miracle harp”, he will re-veal the melodic language of the German Romantic period in this piece.

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n the Wagner anniversary year, Otto Sauter and Ten of the Best & Friends will be taking the music of Richard Wagner with them on an exciting round-the-world trip: “Tristan meets Isolde in Harlem”, “Parsifal’s Trip to Brazil” and further stops involv ing pyrotechnics in brass. Soul and Blues, Mambo, Salsa, Bossa Nova and Samba-Funk will transform the immortal melodies from “Lohengrin”, “Siegfried”, the “Flying Dutch-man” and other works into American and Caribbean hits. Alongside ten world-class trum-peters, an interna tional band with vocals and strings will provide drive and a lot of sound.

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Otto Sauter / Ten of the Best & Friends“The Richard Wagner Project”Wagner’s most famous melodies meet the musical traditions of New York, Cuba, Spain and Brazil.? 35 I 28 I 22Joint event with Kunst!Rasen.

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Wealth and Beauty

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Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie BremenKent Nagano Conductor

Jörg Widmann: “Armonica” for OrchestraWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A major KV 622Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98? 95 I 80 I 64 I 48 I 32


This concert is part of the Residency of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

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2or Kent Nagano, Johannes Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is one of the great classical mas-terpiece, a work about which Joseph Joachim wrote to the composer in the following terms: “The gripping character of the whole, the density of inven tion, the wonderfully intertwined growth of the motifs, even more than the richness and the beauty of single parts, I like very much.” It is a stroke of luck that in Bonn Nagano can be heard for the first time conducting the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, an orchestra known here on the Rhine for its furioso perform-ances of Beethoven and sensitive interpretations of Schumann.

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Athletic Elegance

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Grubinger & FriendsMartin Grubinger Percussion

Martin Grubinger sen. Percussion

Leonhard Schmidinger Percussion

Ferhan Önder Piano

Ferzan Önder Piano

Fazıl Say: “Variations” for Two Pianos and Percussion op. 32Béla Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Sz 110Igor Stravinski: “Le sacre du printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”), arranged for two pianos and percussion by Martin Grubinger sen.? 53 I 44 I 35 I 27 I 19


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3is technique is breathtaking, his pleasure in playing immense, and his presentation athletically elegant. Martin Grubinger is a world star and since his “Per-cussive Planet” in 2006 he has been firmly associated with the Beethovenfest Bonn. In 2013 too, Martin Grubinger, one of the world’s best marimbaphone players, will be present at the festival with a number of pro-grammes, one of them including Stravinsky’s well-known “Rite of Spring”, which had its premiere 100 years ago. The programme will be presented by a well-re-hearsed “family business”: son, father, teacher, wife and sister-in-law.

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he world takes time off and time changes its rhythm when the Hamburg-based “sound pilot” Raphaël Marionneau takes his audience off on his journey. He is one of the most influential chillout DJs in Europe and is the inventor of “Le café abstrait”. His sound is a mix of ambient, chillout, downtempo, electro and Ibiza trance. A musical invi-tation to switch off the everyday world. The Beethovenfest and Raphaël Marionneau have invited selected classical ensembles from the NDR Youth Symphony Orchestra as live guests for these two even ings.

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Classic Chillout Lounge with live music? 9 (incl. 1 free drink (Kölsch / soft drink)

An event of the Ameron Hotel Königshof in co-operation with the Beethovenfest Bonn.

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Miah Persson Soprano

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George Frideric Handel: “Music for the Royal Fireworks” in D major HWV 351Edward Elgar: “Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’” op. 36 as well as Concert Arias by Felix Mendelssohn and Benjamin Britten and English stage music by Henry Bishop and Operettas by Arthur Sullivan. ? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22


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“All Ears for Half”Concert as part of the residency of the NDR Symphony Orchestra.


5ith the now famous “Opening Night”, Thomas Hengelbrock entices the music lovers of Hamburg into the concert hall at the beginning of the season. Hengelbrock is bringing this con-cept – a three-part programme with two intervals and a lot of leisure – with him to Bonn. The mood of expectation that per-vades the lively programme will rub off on to the audience in Bonn – in line with the motto of the Beethovenfest Bonn 2013, we shall hear the original form of famous English themes along with variations or metamor-phoses. The NDR Youth Symphony Orchestra, newly founded by Thomas Hengelbrock, is cele-brating its first away fixture with this concert.

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ith his œuvre of some 600 lieder, Franz Schubert is acknowl-edge to be the composer of the lied. His lieder performances were called “Schubertiades” by his friends already, and to this day they represent the epitome of the carefree musical-literary salons. The ensemble, led by Marlis Petersen and Konrad Jarnot, has been devoting itself for years to this concept. In Bonn they could most recently be heard performing Brahms and Schumann lieder, followed this year by the composer with whom the term is most intimately asso-ciated.

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Marlis Petersen Soprano

Anke Vondung Mezzo-soprano

Werner Güra Tenor

Konrad Jarnot Baritone

Christoph Berner Piano

“Schubert-iade” Franz Schubert: Lieder for one, two or four voices and piano, amongst others “Der Tanz” D 826 “Die Geselligkeit” D 609 “Der Sänger” D 149a “Gott im Ungewitter” D 985 “Die Allmacht” D 852 “ Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben” D 168

“Gebet” D 815? 32Sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln.

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Romantic Solo


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Hélène Grimaud Piano

NDR Symphony OrchestraThomas Hengelbrock Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragedy “Egmont” op. 84Robert Schumann: Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor op. 54Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major WAB 104 (“The Romantic”) ? 85 I 72 I 57 I 43 I 29


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“All Ears for Half”Concert as part of the residency of the NDR Symphony Orchestra.


Sponsored by WestLotto.

8n 2013 Hélène Grimaud is appearing at two Beethovenfest concerts, the first together with the NDR Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock. With the poetic Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann – one of the best-known works in this genre, for a recording of which Hélène Grimaud received the ECHO Klassik in 2005 – the charismatic artist can put her qualities as a soloist to the test, and pass with flying colours. The music of Schumann the Romantic is juxtaposed with the “Romantic” symphony by Anton Bruckner.

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he existential big-city imagery of Charles Baudelaire, charac-terized by loneliness, has inspired numerous composers, including Claude Debussy and Erik Satie. This recital is devoted to his poems, transformed into musical pictures, to Roger Hanschel’s limpid saxophone sounds, and Oskar Pastior’s cryptic metamor-phosis of “Harmonie du soir”. A concert that glows like the picture by Henri Matisse, whose title is taken from Baudelaire’s “Les fleurs du mal”: “Luxe, calme et volupté” – “Luxury, peace, and pleasure”.

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Jutta Koch Soprano

Dominik Köninger Baritone

Roger Hanschel Saxophone

Eric Schneider Piano

Ulf Stolterfoht Recitation

“Luxe, calme et volupté – Baudelaire Metamorphoses”Oskar Pastior: “O du roher iasmin”. Intona-tions to “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire alternating with the “Karmic Episode” for solo saxophone and songs based on poems by Charles Baudelaire by Henri Duparc, Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc as well as Erik Satie. ? 32

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Jan Vogler Cello


Alfred Schnittke: Sonata for cello and piano No. 1 op. 129Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for cello and piano No. 3 in A major op. 69Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19? 53 I 44 I 35 I 27 I 19


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10he pair are, in respect of their profound musical exploration of the score, simply the perfect duo.” (Bonner General-Anzeiger) “The pair” are the duo partners Jan Vogler and Hélène Grimaud, who, following their celebrated concert at the Beethovenfest 2010, are playing the classic in this genre by Beethoven: his Cello Sonata in A major op. 69. Across Rachmaninoff’s great late-Romantic Cello Sonata, the two performers will be casting a musical bridge into the twentieth century with Alfred Schnittke’s polystylistic masterpiece.

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n 1973 the first Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was award ed – to Benjamin Britten. He has been followed since then by nume rous other composers, conductors and instrumentalists, all honoured by the bestowal of what is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for Music”. The recipient in 1998 was György Kurtág, in 2003 it was Wolfgang Rihm and last year Friedrich Cerha. All three are represented at this concert with works asso-ciated and combined with pic-tures – presented in Bonn in an appropriate setting by recognized specialists. The event is part of the official series of concerts, be-ing held in nine European cities, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Foundation.

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Project to mark the 40th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens MusikstiftungGyörgy Kurtág: “Signs, Games and Messages” (Selection)Friedrich Cerha: “Keintate No. 1” for medium-pitch voice (Chan-sonnier) and Instruments with Viennese sayings by Ernst Kein and slides of Vienna by Franz HubmannWolfgang Rihm: “Bild” for nine players to accompany the film “Un chien andalou” by Buñuel and Dalí ? 297 . 3 0 p MC o n C e rt i n t r o d u C t i o n“All Ears for Half”Joint event with the Bundeskunsthalle, in co-operation with Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

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he keyword of this appear-ance of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck is “rhythm”. The first work on the programme is the concerto for percussion, “Conjurer”, by the Ameri can composer John Corigliano. The work is a highly transparent sound study, in which the virtuoso percussionist Martin Grubinger can be heard on more than 30 instruments. Fitting accompaniments to this piece are two compositions by Maurice Ravel, of which the second in particular, the world-famous “Boléro”, owes its great success to its rhythm.

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Martin Grubinger Percussion

Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraManfred Honeck Conductor

John Corigliano: “Conjurer”. Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra with BrassMaurice Ravel: “Rapsodie espagnole” for OrchestraMaurice Ravel: “Boléro” for Orchestra? 95 I 80 I 64 I 48 I 32


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“All Ears for Half”Concert as part of the residency of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Sponsored by Phoenix Reisen.

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Dagmar Pecková Mezzo-soprano

Beethoven Orchester BonnChristian Lindberg Trombone, Conductor

Richard Wagner: Prelude to the opera “Die Meistersinger”Jean Sibelius: “Höstkväll” (“Autumn Evening”), No. 1 of Six Songs op. 38 (in the orches-tration by the composer)Richard Wagner: “Ich sah das Kind”. Kundry’s aria from the opera “Parsifal”Christian Lindberg: “Kundraan” for Trombone and StringsJean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 43? 53 I 44 I 35 I 27 I 19


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omposer, trombonist and conductor – the Swedish musi-cian Christian Lindberg has an exceptional talent. Together with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, he will show that the musical understanding and penetration of the works can be enriched by this threefold perspective. Wagner himself, in his capacity as composer, librettist, stage director and conductor, created “total works of art” whose aes-thetic is admired to this day. This evening we shall hear the Prelude to the “Meistersinger” and Kundry’s moving aria “Ich sah das Kind”, sung here by Dagmar Pecková, who is famous for her devilishly expressive voice.

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Jean-Guihen Queyras Cello

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he Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its music director Manfred Honeck were hailed as a “fabulous ensemble” (General-Anzeiger) for their performance at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2011. On board in 2013 will be the 25-year-old celebrated pianist Yuja Wang, who has already been nominated for two Grammies for the elegance of her brilliant musical talent and who won her first ECHO Klassik in 2011. She will make her festival debut with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The autobiographical tone poem “Ein Heldenleben” by Richard Strauss, in which the composer portrays himself and his wife Pauline with irony and musical finesse, concludes the concert.

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Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraManfred Honeck Conductor

Peter Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor op. 23Richard Strauss: “Ein Heldenleben”. Tone poem for large orchestra op. 40? 95 I 80 I 64 I 48 I 32


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Eccentric “Gesamtkunstwerk”



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Cameron Carpenter Digital Organ

Daniel Rossa Moving Pictures

“Student managers” Project 2013 Arrangements, own composition, improvisations etc. for digital organ on themes by Ludwig van Beethoven? 39 I 32 I 22


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16etamorphoses of an instru-ment: Cameron Carpenter, the eccentric American organist and composer, brings out the queen of instruments from her usual setting and gives her dusty image a makeover! He casts doubt on traditions, he discusses, experi-ments and provokes the organ world with his interpretations. Alongside the staging of his instrument, he stages himself. He designs his stage outfits himself, and has them made by selected bespoke tailors. He plays with light and cameras. Cameron Carpenter, his playing technique and his shows consti-tute a “Gesamtkunstwerk”, a total work of art!

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hen Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.” With these opening words of his short story “Metamorphosis”, Franz Kafka introduces us to the grotesque situation of his prota-gonist. “Metamorphosis” is also one of the most important com-positional techniques in music. In association with Michael Degen as narrator, the Minguet Quartet demonstrate the meta-morphoses, transformations and flights from reality that have taken place in music since Beethoven’s day.

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Michael Degen Recitation

Minguet QuartettUlrich Isfort Violin

Annette Reisinger Violin

Aroa Sorin Viola

Matthias Diener Cello

Franz Kafka: “Metamorphosis” (excerpts) alternating withFelix Mendelssohn: Four Pieces for String Quartet op. 81Gustav Mahler: “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”. Lied No. 3 from the “Rückert Lieder” (arranged for String Quartet by Annette Reisinger)Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio (original second movement) from String Quartet in G major op. 18/2 (first perform ance of the reconstruction in Germany) plus works by Josef Suk and Jörg Widmann.? 32 I 25

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Astrologer at the Piano


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Stefan Mickisch Piano, Presentation

“Keys and the Zodiac in Beet hoven and Wagner” – an illus trated comparison? 29Sponsored by Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft.

18very key has its own character. That’s something listeners are aware of. And consciously or unconsciously, most composers pay attention to this characteris-tic, which follows from our tonal system. Stefan Mickisch has not only taken a long-term interest in the characteristics of keys, but has developed from this his own interpretation in combination with the signs of the zodiac. In his customary chatty style, the pianist, who is known for his introductions to the Bayreuth Festival, explains these hidden relationships in the music of Beethoven and Wagner with numerous examples on the piano.

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he fortepiano, which was in widespread use in Beethoven’s time, has now virtually disap-peared from the concert-hall. This is a pity, for it can produce sound nuances the modern piano is incapable of. At the 2013 Inter na-tionale Wedstrijd Musica Antiqua in Bruges, the fortepiano is at the focus of artistic interest. Young musicians are still specializing in this instrument – the prizewinner in Bruges, who will be chosen on 8 August, will be playing works composed during the heyday of this instrument, and we shall have an opportunity to hear them as the composers intended.

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Works by Ludwig van Beethoven among others.? 22 Joint event with the Schumannfest Bonn.

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usic for strings from four eras – that’s what the violinist Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the specialist English orchestra for early music, are presenting. The spectrum from Bach to Schoenberg spans almost 200 years, but the relationship is no less plausible than that between Mozart’s B-flat major Violin Concerto and the “Metamor-phoses” of Richard Strauss: a musical weave that consists of seemingly endless variations and developments – an adven-turous acoustic journey.

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Academy of St Martin in the FieldsJulia Fischer Violin, Conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 in B flat major KV 207Richard Strauss: “Metamorphoses”. Study for 23 solo strings AV 142Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for violin, strings and basso continuo No. 1 in A minor BWV 1041Arnold Schönberg: “Verklärte Nacht” for string orchestra op. 4? 75 I 63 I 50 I 38 I 25


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“And Now Mozart”

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Igudesman & JooAleksey Igudesman Violin

Hyung-ki Joo Piano

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21irst, there was a big bang, then, a little nightmare music, and now, Mozart. For those who listen to Mozart, live with Mozart, gave birth to Mozart, eat, pray, and love Mozart, don’t care at all for Mozart, never even heard of Mozart, this show promises you all that it will contain absolutely NO Mozart! But that’s giving away way too much … “And now Mozart!” is a show that will change nothing, except enhance your love of music and toning your stomach muscles by hyste-ri cally laughing to and with Igudesman & Joo.

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ith “Repeat it!” the recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and the violinist Julia Schröder have worked out a programme that spans the period between Hilde-gard von Bingen to the Baroque and on to the present day, and focuses on the idea of the osti-nato. Above these constantly repeated bass and harmony foundations their two instru-ments enter into furious rivalry. The abbey church in Hennef provides a fitting context for this timeless musical style, and allows listeners to experience its meditative effect.

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Dorothee Oberlinger Recorders

Julia Schröder Violin

Ensemble 1700Luise Buchberger Cello

André Henrich Lute

Florian Birsak Harpsichord “Repeat it!” – 1200–2012Works for recorder and violin in various arrangements by Hilde-gard von Bingen, Marin Marais, Henry Purcell, György Ligeti and others, along with improvi-sations.? 22Sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln.

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Queen of the Sweet Sound

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Anna Lucia Richter Soprano

Sabine Meyer Clarinet

Klassische Philharmonie BonnHeribert Beissel Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragedy “Egmont” op. 84Carl Maria von Weber: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No. 1 in F minor op. 73Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major? 53 I 44 I 35 I 27 I 19


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23eribert Beissel, founder and artistic director of the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, has a partic-ular eye for talent. He discovered and encouraged world stars like Sabine Meyer and Christiane Oelze early on. To mark his 80th birthday, Sabine Meyer is return-ing to Bonn. The soloist will be playing Carl Maria von Weber’s first Clarinet Concerto with the tried-and-tested sweet sounds that we are used to from her. And, unburdened by the past, the young singer Anna Lucia Richter, born in 1990, will be giving a fresh interpretation of the soprano part in the final movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.

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Music for a Good Cause

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B e n e f i t C o n C e r t

Donna Brown Jazz vocals

Jochen Kowalski Countertenor

World Doctors OrchestraStefan Willich Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s tragedy “Coriolanus” in C minor op. 62 (“Coriolanus Overture”)Richard Strauss: “Tod and Verklärung”. Symphonic poem op. 24 plus arias and duets by George Frideric Handel, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Henry Purcell, Johann Strauß, Michail Glinka and from the “American Songbook”.? 45 I 35 I 25



Concert for the benefit of Dentists for Africa e.V. and the Förderkreis für krebs-kranke Kinder und Jugendliche Bonn e.V.

24orld Doctors Orchestra – the WDO really does exist, and it is far more than an amateur or-chestra. It was formed in 2007 by the Berlin professor of medicine Stefan Willich, who was appoint-ed Rector of the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin in 2012; he has conducted the or-chestra since its inception. Twice a year, doctors come from all over the world to rehearse and give concerts together. The outstanding standard of the or-chestra is underscored by the fact that in Bonn two inter nation-ally celebrated solo singers are joining up with the orchestra: Jochen Kowalski, who ushered in the countertenor revival 30 years ago, and Donna Brown.

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n age of upheaval is concen-trated in the lens of this concert: the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from the “fin de siècle” to the “fin du temps”. Hardly any other artist can perform this stylistic range so convincingly as Christine Schäfer. The radical transforma-tion in “weltanschauung” and musical expression is focused through three important compo-sitions: Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot lunaire”, composed in 1912 on the eve of the Great War, and Olivier Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du temps”. This work, based on texts from the Book of Revelation was completed by Messiaen while he was an inmate of the German POW camp Stalag VIII-A in Görlitz at 1940/1941.

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Heavenly Love at the End of Time

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Christine Schäfer Soprano

Kornelia Brandkamp Flute

Sebastian Manz Clarinet

Conrad Muck Violin, Viola

Claudio Bohórquez Cello

Eric Schneider Piano

Olivier Messiaen: “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (“Quartet for the End of Time”) for clarinet, violin, cello and pianoArnold Schoenberg: Three times seven poems from Albert Giraud’s “Pierrot lunaire” for soprano and chamber ensemble op. 21Gustav Mahler: “Das himmlische Leben”. Finale from Symphony No. 4 (arranged for soprano and chamber ensemble by Eric Schneider)? 327 . 3 0 p MC o n C e rt i n t r o d u C t i o n“All Ears for Half”Joint event with the Bundeskunsthalle.

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Happy Birthday


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Rudolf Buchbinder Piano

Sinfonia VarsoviaKrzysztof Penderecki Conductor

“To Mark the 80th Birthday of Krzysztof Penderecki”Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Salvatore Viganò’s ballet “The Creatures of Prometheus” op. 43Krzysztof Penderecki: “Resurrection”. Concerto for piano and orchestraAntonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor op. 70? 53 I 44 I 35 I 27 I 19


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26rzysztof Penderecki is seen as one of the most important composers and conductors of the twentieth century, and he has enjoyed a long and close associa-tion with the Beethovenfest. In the year of his 80th birthday, he is coming to Bonn with one of his major works: the “Resur-rection concerto for piano and orchestra”. The piece which was inspired by the events of 11 Sep-tember 2001, is being played by his friend, the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. The concert will be rounded off by Dvorák’s Seventh Symphony, the first of this popular and brilliant three last symphonies.

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Microcosm of Genius

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Rudolf Buchbinder Piano

Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus for piano op. 90 D 899 Ludwig van Beethoven: 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli for piano in C major op. 120 (“Diabelli Variations”)? 45 I 35 I 25


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27he “Diabelli-Variations” are Beethoven’s last great work for the piano, and at the same time his most extensive cycle of varia-tions, in which he forces together everything that makes life and music what they are. Few pianists dare to present this work, but Rudolf Buchbinder, familiar since his youth with Beethoven’s music, is one of them. He succeeds in presenting this “microcosm of Beethoven’s genius” (Hans von Bülow) with humour – Beethoven as the artist of metamorphoses.

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he Ural Philharmonic Orches-tra from Ekaterinburg bears impressive witness to the high quality of the Russian musical tradition. Since the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the orchestra, which was formed in 1936, has wowed concert audiences all over the world. In 1995 Dmitri Liss, previously the assistant to Dmitri Kitayenko at the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, became its chief conductor. In Bonn the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra will be presenting Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky, the winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990, and Tchaikovsky’s “throroughly subjective” Sixth Symphony.

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Boris Berezovsky Piano

Ural Philharmonic OrchestraDmitri Liss Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture “Name Day” in C major op. 115Sergei Rachmaninoff: Concerto for piano and orches tra No. 2 in C minor op. 18Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor op. 74 (“Pathétique”)? 29 I 22 I 15


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“Beethoven, in Devotional Mood”

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Siri Thornhill Soprano

Susanne Langner Alto

Christian Zenker Tenor

Markus Volpert Baritone

Wiener KammerchorL’Orfeo BarockorchesterMichi Gaigg Conductor

“Beethoven, in Devotional Mood”Cantatas and religious works by Ludwig van BeethovenCantata on the death of Joseph II for solo voices, choir and o rchestra WoO 87Hymns after the Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus and Agnus Dei from the Mass for four solo voices, choir and orchestra in C major op. 86 Elegiac Song for four voices and string orchestra op. 118? 42

29ompared with, for example, Mozart or Haydn, Beethoven did not write much religious music: alongside the oratorio “Christ on the Mount of Olives” and the “Missa solemnis” also the rarely performed Mass in C major, composed in 1807. The absolute rarities include the Elegiac Song op. 118 and the Cantata on the Death of Joseph II WoO 87, whose texts reflect the literary taste of the time. The L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, reinforced by exqui-site singers, invite listeners to rediscover the musical beauty of these little-known works, and to experience “Beethoven in devotional mood”.

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t doesn’t often happen in the classical-music scene that suc-cessful soloists get together to form an ensemble. The result of such a collaboration is all the more interesting, the more inde-pendent and self-confident each of the musicians is. One inter-national ensemble of performers with minds of their own performed for the first time at the Konzert-haus in Dortmund in September 2012. It comprised Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Pekka Kuusisto, Lilli Maijala and Pieter Wispelwey. September 2013 will see the debut of this “laboratory quartet” of outstanding musicians at the Beethovenfest Bonn.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja ViolinArtist in Residence 2013

Pekka Kuusisto Violin

Lilli Maijala Viola

Pieter Wispelwey Cello

“quartet-lab”Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for two violins, viola and cello in D major KV 136Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 11 in F minor op. 95Benjamin Britten: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 2 in C major op. 36In addition, the musicians will inter polate other short pieces. ? 25Sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln.

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n 2013 the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra are coming to Bonn with their chief conductor Jonathan Nott to give three concerts. The residency is devoted to a link-up between Beethoven symphonies and outstanding works of the twentieth century which have in their turn become classics in their own right. In the first concert, the rhythmic drive of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony will be juxtaposed with a modern, colour-intensive orchestral painting: the Third Symphony of Witold Lutosławski, in which the passages dependent on chance with different tempo layers create an unpredictable polyphony of sound.

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Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Nott Conductor

Witold Lutosławski: Symphony No. 3Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22


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“All Ears for Half”Concert as part of the residency of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.


Sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Adam Mickiewicz Institiute as part of Polska Music programme.

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Pekka Kuusisto & Luomu Players

Pekka Kuusisto Violin

Anna-Mari Kähärä Vocals, Accordion

Sara Puljula Double Bass

Zarkus Poussa Percussion

Christian Weißkircher Light Design

“It’s all just music”Pekka Kuusisto and Anna-Mari Kähärä: Electronic-acoustic modern jazz plus acoustic Finnish Folk with Finnish fiddle music.? 27 I 19Sponsored by Stadtwerke Bonn.

32simply hate this term cross-over. After all, it implies that there is something there that has to be crossed over. That’s a dan-gerous idea.” The Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto knows no borders between musical genres. Jazz, pop, folk and classical: “It’s all just music,” he says. In Bonn he combines traditional music from his home country with modern jazz and electronic music – and displays roots which have gone on transforming themselves right up to the present, as if it were self-evident.

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ince 2004, in various towns and cities, András Schiff has performed the complete cycle of all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in chronological order. The 2006 live CD recordings from the Tonhalle in Zurich received the highest accolades. In 2012 and 2013 he is presenting the entire cycle in Bonn – he will open the second year with works such as the “Waldstein Sonata”, which, because of its incredible spatial, temporal dimensions, holds a special place in the history of piano music.

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Dimensions in Space and Time

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András Schiff Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven:Sonata for piano No. 16 in G major op. 31/1Sonata for piano No. 17 in D minor op. 31/2Sonata for piano No. 18 in E flat major op. 31/3Sonata for piano No. 21 in C major op. 53 (“Waldstein Sonata”)? 45 I 35 I 25The concerts in the Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price.Subscription prices: ? 149 I 119 I 89


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Changing Timbres

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Ensemble musikFabrikSteve Reich: “Drumming – Part One” for four pairs of tuned bongosRebecca Saunders: “Chroma XIX”. Spatial collage for several chamber groups (2003-2013), Installation adapted for the KunstmuseumPromenade concert in the exhibition rooms of the Kunstmuseum? 196 . 3 0 p M



34ebecca Saunders’s work “Chroma” is a “sound project on tour”. For every venue where it’s performed, the composer develops a new version of this spatial collage. Thanks to its unique transparent architecture, the Kunstmuseum Bonn provides ideal conditions for experiencing new lines of sight and sound. Various instrumental groups and sound objects are distributed around the exhibition rooms, interacting with one another. The audience are invited to move around, following the timbres. The work will be played twice in succession, providing an oppor-tunity for hearing it from entirely different perspectives.

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or this concert, the Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, “Artist in Residence 2013”, has invited very special guests, with whom she’ll be introducing her new CD, “Rapsodia”. She writes: “Everyone has a home: a country, a family, or a kind of music. I am lucky enough to have a home in all three, and there is something of each on this CD. Like a rhap-sody, it unites the music of my homeland, my ancestors, the music with which I grew up, and without which I would not be what I am today.” All the more exciting, then, to hear the young virtuoso at the side of her parents, with whom she plays the music of her homeland in a stirring and authentic manner.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja ViolinArtist in Residence 2013

Emilia Kopatchinskaja Violin

Viktor Kopatchinsky Cimbalom

Martin Gjakonovsky Double Bass

Polina Leschenko Piano

“Rapsodia”Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances Sz 43 and Sz 56George Enescu: “Ménétrier” for solo violin op. 28György Kurtág: Eight Duos for violin and cimbalom op. 4Maurice Ravel: “Tzigane”. Rhapsody for violin and pianoGeorge Enescu: Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 in A minor op. 25 as well as Traditionals? 29Sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Adam Mickiewicz Institiute as part of Polska Music programme.

In co-operation with Bürgerstiftung Rheinviertel.

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fter her “colourful, intense and energetically virtuoso per-formance” (General-Anzeiger) at the Beethovenfest 2012, Patricia Kopatchinskaja will return to Bonn this year as the “artist in residence” with the core piece of the genre: Beethoven’s violin concerto. By her side will be the long-established Bamberg Symphony Orchestra with their principal conductor Jonathan Nott, who will go on to perform the last symphony composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. This work, which saw its world premiere in 1972, is considered the quintes-sence of his extremely productive and eventful life.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja Violin

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Nott Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 61Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A major op. 141? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22


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Residency sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW.

Concert sponsored by Phoeniy Reisen.

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n the third concert of the resi-dency of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Piano Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg, completed in Los Angeles in 1942, meets Beethoven’s magnum opus, his Ninth Symphony. The political link between the two works is obvious: the Ninth is a master-piece with a variable reception history, and, not least during the Second World War, was mis-used for political purposes. Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto addresses the theme of the composer’s situation as an exile. Musically the colourful and expressive work is an example of how twelve-tone music need not be over-intellectual. It does though need high-calibre and intelligent performers: the young French pianist David Fray is precisely the man for the job.

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B e e t h o v e n h a l l eDavid Fray Piano

Susanne Bernhard Soprano

Gerhild Romberger Mezzo-soprano

Andreas Schager Tenor

Franz-Josef Selig Bass

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra ChorusBamberg Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Nott Conductor

Arnold Schoenberg: Concerto for piano and orchestra op. 42Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125? 75 I 63 I 50 I 38 I 25


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Piano Wars


ctually they’re friends, but in the battle of the good sound, they know no mercy. Who will win the audience’s favour? “Piano Battle” is the idea of the internationally successful and award-winning pianists Andreas Kern and Paul Cibis. In a number of rounds, they’ll be playing and competing on their pianos and with their words. And it’s the audience who’ll be choosing the musical themes. At the end of each round, the audience will also decide who’s won. Right at the end, the total will be added up – and there’ll only be one winner.

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Andreas Kern & Paul Cibis Piano

Oliver Scherz Director

“Piano Battle”A concert show with works by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy and others.? 22Sponsored by Knauber.

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n the book “Für jeden Ton die Sprache finden …” (Finding the Language for Every Note), András Schiff talked with Martin Meyer from Neue Zürcher Zeitung about his work on the Beethoven piano sonatas. Schiff says about the sonatas of Beethoven’s middle creative period that “with these five sonatas Beethoven differen-tiates in a veritably adventurous fashion”. The conclusion and high-light is the sonata “Les Adieux”, with its “wonderful mood of a painting of a soul between farewell, absence and joyous reunion”.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 22 in F major op. 54Sonata for piano No. 23 in F minor op. 57 (“Appassionata”)Sonata for piano No. 24 in F-sharp major op. 78Sonata for piano No. 25 in G major op. 79Sonata for piano No. 26 in E-flat major op. 81a (“Les Adieux”)? 45 I 35 I 25The concerts in the Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price.Subscription prices: ? 149 I 119 I 89


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Bernd Heitzler Bass

Andreas Erchinger Piano

Lars Binder Drums

“Keep some secrets within”Songs, that tell stories: as shuffle, ballade, chanson or in lively up-tempo.? 22,50Joint event with Harmonie Endenich.

40or more than 20 years, Cécile Verny’s voice has been one of the most important in European jazz. She combines her love of the songs of her West African homeland, of gospel music, of the chanson and of the American jazz standards with a disarming musicality and pulsating rhythm. The Cécile Verny Quartet’s pro-gramme “Keep some secrets within” concentrates on Verny’s greatest strength: telling stories which after just a few notes strike directly into the heart of the listener.

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ight at the start of Alfred Schnittke’s Third String Quartet, composed in 1983, we hear quo-tations from works by Orlando di Lasso and Beethoven (“Great Fugue”) and the initials DSCH (in English notation, D-E flat-C-B) in memory of Dmitri Shostakovich (spelt Dmitri SCHostakowitsch in German). The Borodin Quartet, who have compiled this pro-gramme with great feeling for the historical development of the genre, know why: in this snap-shot by Schnittke, the genre is concentrated into the smallest of spaces. Starting out from the polyphony of the Renaissance, when for the first time four voices or instruments sang or played together on equal terms, Beethoven and Shostakovich created something masterly, a suitable opening for this year’s concerts of the cycle.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 9 in C major op. 59/3Alfred Schnittke: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 3Ludwig van Beethoven: Fugue for two violins, viola and cello in B-flat major op. 133 (“Great Fugue”)? 32The concerts in the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 115

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n Ireland the influence of Celtic culture has lived on for a particularly long time. This is evidenced also in traditional music, which is distinguished by its characteristic set of instru-ments. Caitríona O’Leary and her ensemble Dúlra devote them-selves to Irish songs and dances against the background of their experience with medieval music, and in this way the songs are notable for their euphonious authenticity. The concert focuses on dances, children’s songs and love songs, with lyrics full of joy and affinity to nature, and per-formed with an unforgettable purity of sound and authenticity of feeling.

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DúlraCaitríona O’Leary Vocals

Adrian Hart Fiddle

Emer Mayock Flute, Uilleann Pipes, Whistle

Kate Ellis Cello

Mel Mercier Bodhrán, Bones

“Ecstasy. Geantraí – Irish Songs of Joy”Irish songs and dances from the 17th/18th centuries and folk sources.? 29Sponsored by Culture Ireland and Volksbank Bonn Rhein-Sieg.

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Burkhard Fritz Tenor (Florestan)

Emily Magee Soprano (Leonore)

Detlef Roth Baritone (Don Fernando)

Evgenij Nikitin Baritone (Don Pizarro)

Dmitri Ivashchenko Bass (Rocco)

Mojca Erdmann Soprano (Marzelline)

Julian Prégardien Tenor (Jaquino)

Ulrich Tukur Recitation

Deutscher KammerchorDie Deutsche Kammer-philharmonie BremenPaavo Järvi Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven:“Fidelio”. Opera in two acts op. 72 (concert performance).Libretto by Joseph Ferdinand von Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breuning and Georg Friedrich Treitschke, inserted text by Walter Jens? 110 I 95 I 80 I 64 I 48 I 32


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t last: in 2013 the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the “orchestra in residence” at the Beethovenfest Bonn, will take on Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio”. With its characteristic dynamic and inspiring musical performance, the ensemble will give this opera of rescue and liberation speed and strength. Guiding them on this journey will be their artistic director Paavo Järvi. The production, which can only be heard in Bonn, Bremen and Yokohama, reflects on the “Fidelio” story from the stand-point of the Rocco the jailer with the moving textual additions of Walter Jens.

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DúlraCaitríona O’Leary Vocals

Adrian Hart Fiddle

Emer Mayock Flute, Uilleann Pipes, Whistle

Kate Ellis Cello

Mel Mercier Bodhrán, Bones

“Ansacht na nAnsacht, Love of Loves”Irish traditional folk songs? 22Sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln and Culture Ireland.

44his evening of the Irish en-semble Dúlra is devoted to love, with folk songs full of yearning, pain and joy. The ensemble was formed in 1998 by the singer Caitríona O’Leary with the aim of giving Irish music a modern interpretation using the ancient instruments. With her great experience in the performance of medieval music, she transferred many of the insights gained there to the music of her homeland. The result is a gently melting melody, strongly oriented to the sounds and rhythms of the Irish language. The total simplicity of these tenderly flowing melodic lines is underscored by the simple accompaniment provided by the outstanding musicians who make up Dúlra.

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Carrier of innermost thoughts

eethoven is entering the re-alms of experimental composing, which already heralds a kind of music of the future,’ András Schiff commented on the three sonatas op. 90, 101 and 106. The astonishing modernity of these works appears only super-ficially to contrast with the fact that they are at the same time the “carriers of Beethoven’s innermost thoughts” (Schiff). There is no interpreter more suitable to reveal this intimacy and greatness to an audience than András Schiff.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 27 in E minor op. 90Sonata for piano No. 28 in A major op. 101Sonata for piano No. 29 in B-flat major op. 106 (“Hammerklavier Sonata”)? 45 I 35 I 25The concerts in the Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price.Subscription prices: ? 149 I 119 I 89


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Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 6 in B-flat major op. 18/6Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 7 in F-sharp minor op. 108Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 10 in E-flat major op. 74 (“Harp Quartet”)? 38The concerts in the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 115

46he Borodin Quartet are re garded as the specialists in performing the Russian reper-toire – from Tchaikovsky, via their eponym Borodin all the way to Shostakovich, whose Seventh String Quartet, composed in memory of his first wife Nina, will be played in this concert. The work, compressed into three movements which flow seam-lessly into each other is a moving lament, and probably the most subjective quartet by the com-poser. Alongside this, the engag-ing friendliness of Beethoven’s “Harp Quartet” – the name is derived from the pizzi cato passages of the first movement – seems like a gesture of recon-ciliation.

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Fascinating Femininity

n the Wagner year 2013 the composer and bandleader Angelika Niescier is confronting one of the most fascinating f emale characters in Wagner’s œuvre: Kundry, the seductress and the keeper of the Grail in the opera “Parsifal”. The vocal part remains largely intact, but is accompanied by a totally novel big band sound, inspired by Wagner’s original music. The project, initiated and supported by Deutsche Welle, is being given its premiere at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2013.

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The German Women’s Jazz OrchestraAngelika Niescier Composition, Conductor

Richard Wagner / Angelika Niescier:“Kundry” after Richard Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel “Parsifal”, arr. for soprano and big band? 25 I 19Sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln and Deutscher Musikrat.

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t’s not far from Stefan Hantel to Shantel, so now you know the secret of his stage name. But what sort of a guy is this, who breaks out of his downbeat sur-roundings to devote himself to the dissemination of Balkan rhythms? Polka-Brass-Beat in the club? Can that work? Only too well! With the “Bucovina Club” compilations released in 2003 and 2005, Shantel is one of the internationally most popular exponents of Balkan Pop, not least thanks to an impressive live show: “Not in minutes, not in seconds, no, the audience is wowed in tenths of a second ...” (dpa)

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he importance of Joseph Joachim for the dissemination of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is well-known – and in addition the violin competition named after him bears witness to his impor-tance as a teacher, virtuoso and muse behind numerous compo-sitions of the nineteenth century. The prizewinner at last year’s competition, Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier, will be appearing at the Schumannhaus with a programme that centres on the sonatas of Bonn’s famous son. A native of Moldova, born in 1988, Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier is a student in Hanover, and wowed the audience with the virtuoso drama of her perform-ance and her radiant sound.

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Caspar Frantz Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for violin and cembalo (arr. for piano) in B minorLudwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 in F major op. 24 (“Spring Sonata”) and further works.? 22Joint event with the Schumannfest Bonn.

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Written on Skin


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Miriam Clark Soprano (Agnès)

Terry Wey Countertenor (Angel 1 / The Boy)

Susanne Blattert Mezzo-soprano (Angel 2 / Marie)

Tamás Tarjányi Tenor (Angel 3 / John)

Avaz Abdullayev The Protector

Beethoven Orchester BonnHendrik Vestmann Conductor

Alexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka Directors

George Benjamin: “Written on skin”. Opera in three parts to words by Martin Crimp based on a 13th-century legend “Guillem de Cabestanh – Le cœur mangé”? 50 I 40 I 30 I 25 I 10Presented by Theater Bonn in co-operation with Beethovenfest Bonn.

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fter its premiere at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival, the opera “Written on Skin” by the British composer George Benjamin was performed in rapid succes sion in Amsterdam, Toulouse, Florence and London – and got rave reviews every where. The work, based on a thirteenth-century legend, describes the thorny path of a woman on a journey to find herself, and at the same time plumbs the limits of power that one human being can exert on another. The highly expressive, irresistible music accompanies the writing of a book, which, “written on skin”, finally brings about the death of its creator. The production opens the first season under the new general director Bernhard Helmich.

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rom the cinema and theatre into the concert hall, from the symphony orchestra to the chamber ensemble: Dmitri Shostakovich’s music was and is open to metamorphoses of all kinds, and not infrequently was rearranged by the composer himself. From his incidental music to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” and his film music for “The Adventures of Korzinkina”, the Delian Quartet have compiled this suite authorized by Irina Antonovna Shostakovich. The confrontation of Shostakovich with older works, namely Bach’s counterpoint, informs the first part of the concert.

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Anatol Ugorski Piano

Delian QuartettAdrian Pinzaru Violin

Andreas Moscho Violin

Aida-Carmen Soanea Viola

Romain Garioud Cello

Fugues for String Quartet by Johann Sebastian Bach and for piano by Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich: Suite from stage and film music to “Hamlet”, “The Human Comedy” and “The Adventures of Korzinkina” (arr. for String Quartet by Victor Ekimovsky and Stefano Pierini)Dmitri Shostakovich: Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and piano in G minor op. 57? 29Joint event with the Burg Namedy Concerts.

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ourageous liberation of a political prisoner by a heroine, “singspiel-like teasing”, revolt against tyranny, paean of praise to conjugal love! The “ingre-dients“ of “Fidelio“ summed up in simple form. To present all of these, versatile voices are needed, voices of singers who know how to integrate into facet-rich roles. Paavo Järvi has managed to gather together a fantastic ensemble comprising the most sought-after perform-ers of the age. In the person of Ulrich Tukur, himself a singer, pianist and accordion player, the aging jailer Rocco is given a voice whose reflective qualities open up new perspectives on a masterpiece.

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Burkhard Fritz Tenor (Florestan)

Emily Magee Soprano (Leonore)

Detlef Roth Baritone (Don Fernando)

Evgenij Nikitin Baritone (Don Pizarro)

Dmitri Ivashchenko Bass (Rocco)

Mojca Erdmann Soprano (Marzelline)

Julian Prégardien Tenor (Jaquino)

Ulrich Tukur Recitation

Deutscher KammerchorDie Deutsche Kammer-philharmonie BremenPaavo Järvi Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven:“Fidelio”. Opera in two acts op. 72 (concert performance)Libretto by Joseph Ferdinand von Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breuning and Georg Friedrich Treitschke, inserted text by Walter Jens? 110 I 95 I 80 I 64 I 48 I 32



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cross the generations, the Borodin Quartet has maintained its special, symphonically dense sound – which predestines the quartet in particular for the per-formance of Beethoven’s string quartets. Formed in 1945 in the former Soviet Union as the “Moskow Philharmonic Quartet”, the ensemble is one of the oldest string quartets in existence; they even collaborated with the composer on the first perform-ances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartets. We shall hear both his and Beethoven’s Twelfth String Quartets – two works which are almost symphonic in their harmony and in their construction.

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211hoever says fugue, says Bach … And with the same justification, one might assert that whoever says variations, says Beethoven,” wrote Jürgen Uhde in his book on Beethoven’s piano music. That two of the three last piano sonatas end with variation move-ments is thus no coincidence, but one of the revolutionary solu-tions that Beethoven found for the devel opment of the genre. “Endless Metamorphosis” could be the motto of this recital, which provides a fitting conclusion to the cycle.

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Jazz Legend

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Jean-Luc Ponty DuoJean-Luc Ponty Acoustic Violin, Electric Violin

William Lecomte Piano

The Duo plays compositions by Jean-Luc Ponty from several decades.? 27,50Joint event with Harmonie Endenich.

55ean-Luc Ponty, virtuoso violinist and pioneer of jazz rock, has collaborated with greats like Frank Zappa and Elton John. Later his style was marked by influences from West Africa and India. What remained constant, though, was “breaking the rules”, something that he realized as long ago as the 1980s had influ-enced a whole generation of young musicians. In the past decade he has been on a number of world tours. On 1 October he’s coming to Bonn, a jazz legend.

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ith the Second String Quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich, the Borodin Quartet has chosen a very “Russian” work by this com-poser. Written in 1944, it is regar-ded as acerbic, not least by dint of its dissonant harmony and use of the church modes. The fourth movement is a variation move-ment, a model that Beethoven also used frequently in his quar-tets and sonatas. This piece will be followed by the first of the three string quartets written by Beethoven and dedicated by him to the Russian Prince Rasumovski, and hence named after him. With this exclusively ”Russian“ programme, the Borodin Quartet have succeeded in building a European bridge for the finale of their concert season at the Beethovenfest this year.

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 2 in A major op. 68Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 7 in F major op. 59/1? 38The concerts in the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 115

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“Look at Beethoven”

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Presentation of the short-film project “Look at Beethoven” 2013Enrique Sánchez Lansch Presenter

Admission freeFurther information at: www.beethovenfest.de/festival- programm/look-at-beethoven

In co-operation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

57ast year “Look at Beethoven” recalled some of the most inter-esting contributions to the short-film competitions from 2006 to 2011 in a “best-of” compilation, and showed new works by the film-makers involved. This year’s motto “Metamorphoses” is par-tic ularly applicable to the short film as a genre. With Look at Beethoven 2013, the film-maker Enrique Sánchez Lansch will present a series of current shorts, some of them made for the Beet-hovenfest, and all devoted to music and its power to transform. He will also be introducing the film authors. The “Look at Beet-hoven” film series in the studio of the Beethovenhalle is devoted once again to outstanding music documentaries. More details will follow in August.

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Fireworks for the Anniversary

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Concert to mark the 50th anniversary of the Elysée TreatyLudwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for piano No. 8 in C minor op. 13 (“Pathétique”) and No. 21 in C major op. 53 (“Waldstein-Sonate”) Claude Debussy: Préludes for piano (Selection)Arnold Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces op. 11as well as two new commissions by Johannes Motschmann and David Chaillou (first perform ance of the works commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty)? 25In association with the Institut français Bonn.

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59eethoven was a European composer. German pathos and the French urge for freedom are present in his works in equal measure. That this artist, whose “Ode to Joy” melody is the official anthem of the European Union, still has a meaningful role is demonstrated by the two new piano pieces commissioned jointly by the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Institut français Bonn: musical fireworks to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which pointed the way ahead for both nations.

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n 2013 the “Encounter with Beethoven” programme will – as in 2012 – be building a bridge to Istanbul. In addition to Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, the orches-tra will be playing two works by Turkish composers. Ulvi Cemal Erkin is one of the “Turkish Five”, a group of composers who in the first half of the twentieth century for the first time wrote symphonic music with a national character. In Zeynep Gedizlioglu, the winner of the Ernst von Siemens Com-posers Encouragement Prize in 2012 and a pupil of Wolfgang Rihm, Deutsche Welle and the conductor Ramiz Malik Aslanov have chosen a young avantgarde composer whose new work reflects the “zeitgeist” of the pulsating city of Istanbul.

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Istanbul University State Conservatory Symphony OrchestraRamiz Malik Aslanov Conductor

Ulvi Cemal Erkin: Concerto for violin and orchestraZeynep Gedizlioglu: New work (first performance of a work commissioned by Deutsche Welle)Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major op. 55 (“Eroica”)? 29 I 22 I 15


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few weeks before the cente-nary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is honouring the famous English composer by playing one of his most popular works, the Serenade op. 31. In this pro-gramme compiled exclusively for the Beethovenfest Bonn, Sir Neville Marriner is including the young horn soloist Premysl Vojta, winner of the 2011 “Beet-hoven Ring”. Marriner, founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, is still, at the age of 88, one of Britain’s leading conductors.

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Toby Spence Tenor

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Robert Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale in E major op. 52Benjamin Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings op. 31Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major op. 93? 75 I 63 I 50 I 38 I 25


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mitation and modification” could form the secret heading to a number of Ligeti’s works, above all in relation to the œuvre of Béla Bartók, who was felt for a long time by many Hungarian composers to be the role model they had to follow. Just as Ligeti, in his string quartet “Métamor-phoses nocturnes”, slowly trans-forms a thematic germ cell into ever new “metamorphoses”, he has also developed the compo-sitional style from the germ cell represented by Bartók. These metamorphoses are brought to listeners’ ears in the programme presented by the Cuarteto Casals.

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Cuarteto CasalsVera Martinez Violin

Abel Tomàs Violin

Jonathan Brown Viola

Arnau Tomàs Cello

“metamorphosis”Béla Bartók: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 4 Sz 91György Kurtág: “Hommage à András Mihály”. 12 Microludes for two violins, viola and cello op. 13György Ligeti: “Métamorphoses nocturnes”. Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 1? 32

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Fine Silvery Sound

ou might think it’s just a richly decorated violin, but the Har-danger fiddle is an instrument in its own right. Developed in seventeenth-century Norway, the Hardanger fiddle with its fine silvery sound is closely bound up with the country’s traditional music. The young Norwegian performer Ragnhild Hemsing contrasts the traditional music for this instrument with classical violin sonatas by her fellow Scandinavians Edvard Grieg and Carl Nielsen.

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Edvard Grieg: Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in F major op. 8Ludwig van Beethoven: “Oh, thou art the lad of my heart” from: Ten National Airs with Variations for piano and flute or violin ad libitum op. 107/9Carl Nielsen: Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in A major op. 9as well as further works by Edvard Grieg, Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Lasse Thoresen and Johan Severin Svendsen as well as Traditionals. ? 29Sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln.

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n 2013 Daniel Harding is coming to the Rhine with the London Symphony Orchestra for the third time in order to con-clude the festival with a furioso programme: Christian Tetzlaff will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with brilliant technique and analytical acuity. This virtuoso piece will be framed by two other Russian works, Mussorgski’s “Night on a Bare Mountain” and Stravinsky’s fantasy-rich music for the ballet “The Firebird”, a pioneering work of the early twentieth century, with which the composer revo-lutionized ballet music.

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Modest Mussorgski: “A Night on the Bare Mountain”. Symphonic PoemPeter Tchaikovsky: Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 35Igor Stravinsky: “L’oiseau de feu” (“The Firebird”). Ballet Music in two acts? 95 I 80 I 64 I 48 I 32


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B e e t h o v e n f e s t B o n n 2 0 1 3 + + P r o G r a

thu 11 aPr 8 Pm SPECIAL CONCERT: Staatskapelle Dresden p.12 Christian Thielemann Bruckner: Symphony no. 8

fri 30 auG 7 P m WARM UP CONCERT OPEN AIR: p.14 Otto Sauter & Ten of the Best & Friends

t h u 5 s e P 8 P m OPENING CONCERT: Die Deutsche p.15 Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Kent Nagano

f r i 6 s e P 8 P m Martin Grubinger & Friends p.16 Works by Stravinski (“Sacre”), Bartók and Fazıl Say

9 P m “Chillout SinNfonie” p.17 DJ Raphaël Marionneau

s at 7 s e P 7 P m NDR Symphony Orchestra, p.18 Thomas Hengelbrock, Miah Persson

9 P m “Chillout SinNfonie” p.17 DJ Raphaël Marionneau

s u n 8 s e P 6 P m “Schubert-iade”: Marlis Petersen, Anke p.19 Vondung, Werner Güra, Konrad Jarnot, Christoph Berner

7 P m NDR Symphony Orchestra, p.20 Thomas Hengelbrock, Hélène Grimaud

mon 9 s e P 8 P m “Luxury, peace and pleasure – p.21 Baudelaire Metamorphoses”

t u e 1 0 s e P 8 P m Jan Vogler Cello and p.22


W e d 1 1 s e P 8 P m 40th anniversary of the Ernst von p.23 Siemens Musikstiftung, Ensemble Modern

t h u 1 2 s e P 8 P m Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, p.24 Manfred Honeck, Martin Grubinger

f r i 1 3 s e P 8 P m Beethoven Orchester Bonn, p.25 Christian Lindberg, Dagmar Pecková

8 P m RECITAL: Jean-Guihen Queyras Cello p.26 Works by Bach and Britten

s at 1 4 s e P 8 P m Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, p.27 Manfred Honeck, Yuja Wang

8 P m Cameron Carpenter Digital Organ p.28 “Student managers” Project 2013

8 P m Michael Degen & Minguet Quartett p.29 Works by Kafka, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and others

s u n 1 5 s e P 1 1 a m Stefan Mickisch Piano, Presentation p.30 “Keys and the Zodiac in Beethoven and Wagner”

1 1 a m Prizewinners’ Concert 1: Winner of 1st prize p.31 (Fortepiano) at the Musica Antiqua competition, Bruges 2013

6 P m Academy of St Martin in the Fields, p.32 Julia Fischer

6 P m “And Now Mozart”: p.33 Igudesman & Joo

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s u n 1 5 s e P 6 P m Dorothee Oberlinger Recorders, p.34 Julia Schröder Violin, Ensemble 1700

mon 1 6 s e P 8 P m Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, p.35 Heribert Beissel, Anna Lucia Richter, Sabine Meyer

t u e 1 7 s e P 8 P m Benefit Concert: World Doctors Orchestra, p.36 Stefan Willich, Donna Brown, Jochen Kowalski

8 P m RECITAL: Christine Schäfer Soprano, p.37 Eric Schneider Piano, and others

W e d 1 8 s e P 8 P m Sinfonia Varsovia, p.38 Krzysztof Penderecki, Rudolf Buchbinder

t h u 1 9 s e P 8 P m RECITAL: Rudolf Buchbinder Piano p.39 Works by Schubert and Beethoven

f r 2 0 . 9 . 8 P m Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, p.43 Dmitri Liss, Boris Berezovsky

8 P m “Beethoven, in Devotional Mood” – p.44 Cantatas and religious works by Beethoven

8 P m “quartet-lab” p.45 Patricia Kopatchinskaja Violin & Friends

s at 2 1 s e P 8 P m Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, p.46 Jonathan Nott Works by Beethoven and Lutosławski

8 P m “It’s all just music” p.47

Pekka Kuusisto & Luomu Players

s u n 2 2 s e P 6 P m BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS 1: p.48 András Schiff Piano, Sonatas op. 31 and 53

7 P m Ensemble musikFabrik p.49 Works by Steve Reich and Rebecca Saunders (‘Chroma’)

7 P m “Rapsodia”: p.50 Patricia Kopatchinskaja Violin & Friends

mon 23 seP 8 P m Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, p.52 Jonathan Nott, Patricia Kopatchinskaja

t u e 2 4 s e P 8 P m Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, p.53 Jonathan Nott, David Fray, and others

8 P m “Piano Battle”: p.54 Andreas Kern & Paul Cibis

W e d 2 5 s e P 8 P m BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS 2: p.55 András Schiff Piano, Sonatas op. 54, 57, 78, 79, 81a

8 P m JAZZ CONCERT 1: p.56 Cécile Verny Quartet

t h u 2 6 s e P 8 P m BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS 1: p.57 Borodin Quartet, with works by Beethoven and Schnittke

8 P m “Ecstasy. Geantraí – Irish Songs of Joy”: p.58 Dúlra

f r i 2 7 s e P 8 P m PREMIERE: “Fidelio”, Die Deutsche p.59 Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi, and others

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f r i 2 7 s e P 8 P m “Ansacht na nAnsacht – Love of Loves”: p.60 Dúlra

s at 2 8 s e P 8 P m BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS 3: p.61 András Schiff Piano, Sonatas op. 90, 101, 106

8 P m BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS 2: p.62 Borodin Quartet, with works by Beethoven, Shostakovich

8 P m The German Women’s Jazz Orchestra, p.63 Angelika Niescier, Dagmar Pecková

9 P m “Global Grooves Night”: p.64 Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar

sun 29 seP 1 1 a m Prizewinners’ Concert 2: p.65 Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier Violin

6 P m PREMIERE: George Benjamin: p.66 ”Written on skin“

6 P m “Shostakovich Metamorphoses”: p.67 Anatol Ugorski Piano and Delian Quartett

8 P m “Fidelio”: Die Deutsche p.68 Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi, and others

mon 30 seP 8 P m BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS 3: p.69 Borodin Quartet Works by Beethoven, Shostakovich

t u e 1 o C t 8 P m BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS 4: p.70

András Schiff Piano, Sonatas op. 109, 110, 111

8 P m JAZZ CONCERT 2: p.71 Jean Luc Ponty Duo

8 P m BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS 4: p.72 Borodin Quartet Works by Beethoven, Shostakovich

W e d 2 o C t 7 P m “Look at Beethoven”: p.73 Presentation

7 . 3 0 P m George Benjamin: p.66 “Written on skin”

8 P m RECITAL: François-Frédéric Guy Piano p.74 “50th anniversary Elysée Treaty”

t h u 3 o C t 8 P m Istanbul University State Conservatory p.75 Symphony Orchestra, Ramiz Malik Aslanov, Bahar Biricik

f r i 4 o C t 7 . 3 0 P m George Benjamin: p.66 “Written on skin”

8 P m Academy of St Martin in the Fields, p.77 Sir Neville Marriner, Toby Spence, Premysl Vojta

8 P m “metamorphosis”: Cuarteto Casals p.78 Works by Bartók, Kurtág und Ligeti

8 P m Ragnhild Hemsing Violin, Hardanger Fiddle, p.79 and Tor Espen Aspaas Piano

s at 5 o C t 8 P m FINAL CONCERT: London Symphony p.80 Orchestra, Daniel Harding, Christian Tetzlaff

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