Thielemann gets his Beethoven in fast
mainWhile other orchestras announce copycat Beethoven cycles over 2019-20 for the composer’s 250th anniversary, Christian Thielemann plans a month by month survey with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
He will do symphonies 1-3 on one night this December, symphonies 4-5 in a January 2020 concert… and so on until he hits the 9th.
Not bad.
Good but will he micromanage them to death, as he is wont to do?
He invited Gatti to conduct Mahler 5 and Saint-Säens 1 with Sol Gabetta in Dresden
On the 15th, 16th and 17th September 2019
At a loss to see how this is different, in terms of imaginative programming, from any other routine Beethoven cycle.
Agreed. I’m curious to know why NL thinks this is “not bad”. Norman, do you care to elaborate?
We don’t need any ‘imaginative programming’ for a Beethoven cycle.
That sounds less fastidious than to go through all of Johann Melchior Molter’s symphonies in numerical order.
Not bad at all. I love programs that have one composer, programs that have a focus. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau did it that way too.
And where is Fidelio? Or even better, the ‘Leonore’ version.
Sadly they’ll not be very interesting.