Thielemann gets his Beethoven in fast

Thielemann gets his Beethoven in fast

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norman lebrecht

March 12, 2019

While 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.

 

Comments

  • Caravaggio says:

    Good but will he micromanage them to death, as he is wont to do?

  • Dresdner says:

    He invited Gatti to conduct Mahler 5 and Saint-Säens 1 with Sol Gabetta in Dresden

  • FS60103 says:

    At a loss to see how this is different, in terms of imaginative programming, from any other routine Beethoven cycle.

  • We privatize your value says:

    That sounds less fastidious than to go through all of Johann Melchior Molter’s symphonies in numerical order.

  • Petros Linardos says:

    Not bad at all. I love programs that have one composer, programs that have a focus. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau did it that way too.

  • Viola da Bracchio says:

    And where is Fidelio? Or even better, the ‘Leonore’ version.

  • Don Pasquale says:

    Sadly they’ll not be very interesting.

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