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he motto of the 2014 Beethovenfest is ‘Divine Spark’. Every Beethoven-lover knows that this re-fers to joy, the ‘daughter of Elysium’, which, glitter-ing and sparkling, leaps across from one to another when a community comes together. It is not a matter of chance that the Ode ’To Joy’ – which can be heard twice at this year’s Beethovenfest – has reached out to so many people.

Sparks may well also fly at the total of 60 events of the 2014 festival season. We have some wonder-ful artists and important works, after all. The idio-syncratic Sir John Eliot Gardiner is coming with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the ever-youthful Lorin Maazel with the Munich Philharmonic, the brilliant Yannick Nézet-Séguin is conducting a cult work in the form of Dvorák’s symphony ’From the New World’, and the rousing Andris Nelsons will be giving us all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In addition we shall be hearing all of this violin sonatas and piano concertos. We can expect sparks too from stars such as Arcadi Volodos, Waltraud Meier, Thomas Zehetmair and Herbert Schuch, while our string quartets – the Kuss Quartett, the Tetzlaff Quartett and the Borodin Quartet – form a positive galaxy. Nordic orchestras will bring on the Northern Lights, while Turkish youth orchestra will shine out at the summit of our many and various ‘education’ endeav ours.

Many other ‘divine sparks’ populate our cosmos in 2014. I am presenting this rich programme in the name of my predecessor Ilona Schmiel; she conceived it before leaving the Beethovenfest after ten years as artistic director. We take this opportunity to say thank-you.

I wanted to introduce just two little harbingers of ‘my’ Beethovenfest in 2015: an opening matinee with ‘contemporary Beethoven’ and a collaboration with Theater Bonn.

I would like to express my very cordial thanks to all supporters, sponsors and foundations, and not least to our patron, state premier Hannelore Kraft.

Nike WagnerDirector of the Beethovenfest Bonn

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In Focus: Cycles and Projects

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In Focus: Beethoven Symphony Cycle

The concerts of the Beethoven Symphony Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription prices: ? 265 I 230 I 185 I 140 I 95

Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts.

Annette Dasch Soprano (10 Sep)

Lioba Braun Contralto (10 Sep)

Toby Spence Tenor (10 Sep)

Vuyani Mlinde Bass (10 Sep)

CBSO Chorus (10 Sep)

City of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraAndris Nelsons Conductor

o open the Beethovenfest Bonn 2012, Andris Nelsons conducted Beethoven’s Ninth; in 2014 he is returning with a complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle. Following Kurt Masur, Paavo Järvi and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andris Nelsons is the fourth conductor since the re-estab-lishment of the festival in 1999 to perform such a cycle at the Beet-hovenfest Bonn. Andris Nelsons, since 2008 Chief Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, has been extravagantly fêted by the press for his energetic, romantic approach to Beethoven.

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The events of the Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription prices: ? 159 I 132 I 105 I 81 I 54


In Focus: Beethoven

Piano Concerto Cyclene of the central projects of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

(MCO) is ‘The Beethoven Journey’ with the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, Artistic Partner of the MCO. In this ‘Journey’ Beethoven’s five piano concertos along with the ‘Choral Fantasy’ are being performed in more than ten countries between 2012 and 2015, in Bonn for the first time as a cycle. In each of the three concerts, a work by Igor Stravinsky will also be played: the ballet music ‘Apollon Musagète’ along with the two concertos in E flat and in D for string orchestra. Leif Ove Andsnes will conduct the orchestra from the piano, while the vocal part in the ‘Choral Fantasy’ will be sung by the WDR Radio Chorus.

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Mahler Chamber OrchestraLeif Ove Andsnes Piano, Conductor

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major op. 19Igor Stravinsky: ‘Apollon Musagète’. Ballet music for string orchestraLudwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major op. 58

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Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestraLudwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major op. 73 (‘The Emperor’)

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Igor Stravinsky: ‘Dumbarton Oaks’. Concerto in E flat for string orchestraLudwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor op. 37Arnold Schönberg: ‘Friede auf Erden’ for mixed choir a cappella op. 13Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasia for piano, choir and orchestra in C minor op. 80 (‘Choral Fantasy’)

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In Focus: Beethoven String Quartet Cycle

The events of the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 118


Borodin Quartet Quartet in Residence 2012–2014

Ruben Aharonian Violin

Sergey Lomovsky Violin

Igor Naidin Viola

Vladimir Balshin Cello

robably no other ensemble has confronted, so profoundly and over such a long period, the works of the two great quartet compos-ers in musical history – Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shosta-kovich. In their three-year residency in Bonn, the Borodin Quartet are playing, in a total of twelve concerts, all the Beethoven string quartets and the most important Russian works of this genre. ‘Here we have not four individual players, but a single sixteen-stringed instrument of great virtuosity.’ (FAZ, Gerhard Rohde, 14 Oct 2013)

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String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Miaskovski

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String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven, Igor Raykhelson and German Galynin

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String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich

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String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich

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The events of the Beethoven Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 117

In Focus: Beethoven

Violin Sonata Cycleogether with Enrico Pace, in 2013 Leonidas Kavakos recorded all

of the Beethoven sonatas – and the result was so fresh and varied that Kavakos was awarded the 2013 ECHO-Klassik prize in the cate-gory ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’. For Bonn, the two musicians have thought out a cycle which transcends a mere encyclopaedic compi-lation: they combine Beethoven’s sonatas with works by the US-based Russian composer Lera Auerbach, whose bold, imaginative and atmospherically dense compositions are performed worldwide.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for violin and piano Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 7Lera Auerbach:Prelude No. 23 in F major from: 24 Preludes for violin and piano op. 46

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for violin and piano Nos. 4, 5 and 10 Lera Auerbach:Prelude No. 20 in C minor from: 24 Preludes for violin and piano op. 46



Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for violin and piano Nos. 1, 8 and 9Lera Auerbach:Prelude No. 24 in D minor from: 24 Preludes for violin and piano op. 46

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Leonidas Kavakos Violin

Enrico Pace Piano

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In Focus: ‘Divan of song’

The events of the ‘Divan of song’ can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 75

ohann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ‘West-östlicher Divan’, inspired by the eponymous volume of verse by the Persian poet Hafez, was itself the inspiration for the title of this unusual song project compiled by the pianist and lieder accompanist Burkhard Kehring exclusively for the Beethovenfest Bonn. In his cycle ‘Divan of song’, Kehring dis covers relationships between the repertoire of the Romantic era and western European modernism on the one hand, and the sounds of the Near and Far East on the other. To assist him, he has six fan-tastic soloists.

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Christiane Karg Soprano

Robert Holl Bass

Burkhard Kehring Piano, Concept

‘Divan of song – Persia’Lieder by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Othmar Schoeck et al. to texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Persian poet Hafez, from whose works passages will also be recited in the original Farsi.

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Christiane Iven Soprano

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay Vocals

Pandit Sankha Chatterjee Tabla


‘Divan of song – India’Param Vir: Songs from Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’. Song Cycle to words by Rabindranath Tagore, trans la-tion by William Radice (first per-form ance, work commissioned by the Beethovenfest Bonn)Olivier Messiaen: Selected songs along with traditional Indian songs to words by Rabindranath Tagore and tabla improvisations

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Kwangchul Youn Bass


‘Divan of song – Korea”Hannah Hanbiel Choi: ‘Engel I’ (‘Angel I’) and ‘Engel III’ (‘Angel III’) for piano (first performance)Myung-Sun Lee: ‘Engel II’ (‘Angel II’) and ‘Engel IV’ (‘Angel IV’) for piano (first performance)Franz Schubert: Lieder Cycle ‘Die Winterreise’ D 911

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‘Save the World’

an the world still be saved? Or are the ‘last days of humankind’ (Karl Kraus) already upon us? We are living in a global village and the time bombs are ticking away. But who is working on solutions to the most urgent problems – hunger, climate change, armed conflict? Scientists? Politicians? Artists? A hundred years after the start of the Great War, the Theater Bonn and the Beethovenfest Bonn intend to examine this question at a ‘stage congress’. For where, if not in Bonn, is the seat of these ‘save-the-world experts’ of the governmental and non-governmental organizations? Together with artists representing various areas of art, international research-ers are staging a sensory event consisting of art, music and science.

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‘Save the World – futurologists and artists in dialogue’ (working titel)Nicola Bramkamp Artistic DirectorTickets from August available at Theater Bonn and all the usual advanced booking offices.

A project by Theater Bonn in co-operation with the Beethovenfest Bonn.

In association with the German Foreign Ministry, the United Nations (UNU-VIE, UNV, UNCCD, UNFCC), the University of Bonn and the ZEF Bonn.

With the kind support of the North Rhine Westphalia State Ministry of the Family, Children, Young People, Culture and Sport, and Bonn City Council.

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‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’

Kuss Quartett Jana Kuss Violin

Oliver Wille Violin

William Coleman Viola

Mikayel Hakhnazaryan Cello

Bennewitz QuartetJakub Fišer Violin

Štepán Ježek Violin

Jirí Pinkas Viola

Štepán Doležal Cello

Heath QuartetOliver Heath Violin

Cerys Jones Violin

Gary Pomeroy Viola

Christopher Murray Cello

Quatuor ZaïdeCharlotte Juillard Violin

Pauline Fritsch Violin

Sarah Chenaf Viola

Juliette Salmona Cello

his string quartet project shines a spotlight on the years 1814, 1914 and 2014, covering two centuries in which the string quartet genre has undergone decisive change. For this reason, works have been selected which were composed around these world-changing dates, including pieces by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Wolf, Arnold Schönberg, Josef Suk, Leoš Janácek and Oliver Schneller. They are played by three young ensembles, who, together with the celebrated Kuss Quartett will stage a total of six programmes in various combinations of players.

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String Quartets by Franz Schubert, Josef Suk, Oliver Schneller and Arnold SchönbergSponsored by Knauber.



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String Quartet No. 1 (‘Kreutzer Sonata’) by Leoš Janácek, presented by Valentin Erben

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String Quartets by Joseph Haydn, Erwin Schulhoff, Belá Bartók, John Bennett and Harrison Birtwistle

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String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvorák and Slavomír HorínkaSponsored by Knauber.

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Works by Hugo Wolf, Belá Bartók and Ralph Vaughan WilliamsSponsored by Knauber.

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String Quartets by Joseph Haydn, Sofia Gubaidulina and Franz Schubert

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xperiencing an international classical music festival close up – this is the opportunity offered by the Young Beethovenfest to chil dren and young people, whether at school, in job training or in higher education. They can take part in workshops, make music them-selves, experience the work that goes into the festival backstage, and meet the artists performing at the festival. The Young Beet-hovenfest 2014 cordially invites them all to the following projects:

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In Focus:

• ‘Student Managers’ Bonn school students from years 11 and 12 organize a con-cert with the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble at the Telekom Forum

• ‘Question Time’ School students interview

artists taking part in the Beethovenfest

• ‘Backstage’ A day in close contact with one of the festival’s organizing team

• ‘How does it work?’ Artists visit Bonn schools

• Rehearsal visits Schoolchildren attend orchestral rehearsals

• Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO): ‘Feel the Music’ Festival Project Hearing-impaired children and young people from Dublin, Brescia, Prague and Cologne meet a youth choir from Bonn. At a choir workshop, they will join up to work out a concert programme of their own, with a little help from the MCO. Other events on the theme ‘music and hearing impair-ment’ are in preparation.

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Young Beethovenfest2014

• Workshop with Canadian Brass For the next generation of brass players

• ‘Young and curious – Beethoven for trainees’ Workshop day and concert visit

• Campus encounters 2014 Meetings with musicians from the Campus Orchestra

• Studio musikFabrik meets … Schoolstudents discuss con-temporary music with musi-cians from the musikFabrik

• Price concessions - 50% on all tickets for school

and college students and those engaged in a voluntary service year

- Group bookings for 10 or more students are exempt from the 10% advance booking surcharge

: special quotas for school students and college students (for further information see front cover)

Young Beethovenfest

[email protected]: 0228 – 20 10 3-23

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‘Clear the Stage for Beethoven’School students perform music in Bonn city centre

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Mnozil Brass


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Concert of the ‘Student Managers’

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Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic

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Canadian Brass

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‘Beethoven Taler’ for the Beethoven Festspielhaus

he planned building of a new concert venue, the Beethoven Festspielhaus, has for a long time been of central concern to the Beethovenfest Bonn. A new building with international recognized architecture and outstanding acoustics is an important precondition for the further positive development of the Beethovenfest Bonn.

Deutsche Post DHL has not just provided a major part of the neces-sary funds for the purely private building project, it has also confirmed once again its continued interest in its realization and intends to conduct a new architect-selection process. With this Bonn-based global player behind it, and one with extensive global experience in the planning and implementation of major building projects, there are good chances of commemorating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, which falls in 2020, in magnificent style in a new hall.

However the money is not yet there. For this reason, the Beethoven-fest Bonn has decided to levy a ‘Beethoven Taler’ (1 euro) on every ticket sold at the Beethovenfest Bonn. These funds will be used by the Beethoventaler Genossenschaft, a co-operative which now includes many regional businesses, for the realization of the Festspielhaus project.

Only by acting together can Bonn’s citizens succeed in making this great project come true and setting up a living and attractive memorial to its great son.

We would be glad of your support!

Further information: www.beethoventaler.dewww.festspielhausfreunde.dewww.5000.ag

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Opening matinee


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Nike Wagner Opening address

Shinnosuke Inugai Piano

Beethoven Orchester BonnStefan Blunier Conductor

Reiner Bredemeyer: ‘Bagatellen für B.’ for piano and orchestraLudwig van Beethoven: Six Bagatelles for piano op. 126Dieter Schnebel: ‘Beethoven-Symphony’ for Chamber Ensemble? 25

1he new Artistic Director takes her bow and opens this year’s festival with an event that will also set the pattern for the open-ing of the Beethovenfest in future years. In an address, Nike Wagner, a scholar and writer on cultural matters, will present her ideas on festivals in general and on this year’s programme in partic-ular. And the city’s own orchestra will show how Beethoven has been developed by contemporary composers – in a symphony and in ‘bagatelles’. Ludwig lives!

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Bon Voyage

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London Symphony OrchestraSir John Eliot Gardiner Conductor

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Overture ‘Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt’ op. 27Robert Schumann: Concerto for cello and orchestra in A minor op. 129Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 5 in D minor op. 107 (‘Reformation Symphony’)? 121 I 101 I 81 I 61 I 41

Non-bookable reserved seats for students.

Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.

Sponsored by Ernst & Young.

2he London Symphony Orches-tra (LSO), one of the best in the world, has had a close connec-tion with the Beethovenfest Bonn for many years. At the 2014 open-ing concert, it will be conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who was last in Bonn with the LSO in 2011. Gardiner was one of the pioneers of historically informed performance practice, and stands for a lively confrontation with the classical and early-Romantic re-pertoire. Following on from his magnificent concerts in 2011, the celebrated conductor has chosen to focus on one of Beethoven’s most important successors, the early-Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, whose works will be coupled with Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in a performance by Gautier Capuçon.

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nce again the Beethovenfest Bonn has succeeded in attracting a high-calibre orchestra to per-form all nine Beethoven sympho-nies. This year, it is the City of Birmingham Symphony Orches-tra and its Chief Conductor Andris Nelsons, who will play the symphonies in chronological order: ‘I see the chronology as a kind of journey. We shall stay on Beethoven’s heels, through the highs and lows of his life. And we shall confront the highs and lows of our own lives. That’s what it’s about.’

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All Nines

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‘All Ears for Half’Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.

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Bridge between East and West

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Christiane Karg Soprano

Robert Holl Bass


‘Divan of song – Persia’Lieder by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Othmar Schoeck, Viktor Ullmann, Hugo Wolf et al. to words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Persian poet Hafez, from whose works passages will be recited in the original Farsi.? 30The events of the ‘Divan of song’ can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 75

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‘All Ears for Half’

4hen the volume of poems ‘The Divan’ by the Persian writer Hafez first appeared in German translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of its enthusias-tic readers. Inspired by the cycle of poems, in 1814 Goethe began to write his own ‘West-östlichen Divan’, which in its turn has stimulated numerous composers to set individual poems to music. The pianist Burkhard Kehring and the solo singers Christiane Karg and Robert Holl juxtapose the works of Hafez and Goethe – building a musical bridge.

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‘A Revolutionary. A Fighter’

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Ludwig van Beethoven:Symphony No. 4 in B flat major op. 60Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67? 76 I 67 I 53 I 41 I 28The events of the Beethoven Symphony Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price. Subscription prices: ? 265 I 230 I 185 I 140 I 95


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5y September 2014 Andris Nelsons and the City of Birming-ham Symphony Orchestra will have been working together for six years – a long time for the Chief Conductor from Riga, who is, after all, only 35. It was already clear at the opening concert in 2012, when he conducted a much-fêted Ninth, that he could produce extraordinary results with this orchestra. Why does Beethoven exert such a fascina-tion on him? Andris Nelsons: ‘Who is Beethoven? A revolution-ary. A fighter. One who stands above things – politically, aes-thetically, historically.’ To take effect at the start of the 2014/2015 season, Andris Nelsons has been appointed General Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Nikolai Miaskovski:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 13 in A minor op. 86Dmitri Shostakovich:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 13 in B flat minor op. 138Ludwig van Beethoven:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 13 in B flat major op. 130? 39The events of the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 118

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6he Borodin Quartet are devot-ing the first of their four concerts to three works written by com-posers who were of particular importance for the string quartet genre. With his 16 string quar-tets, Beethoven created a cos-mos which, in terms of sheer number, became both a hurdle and a goal: Dmitri Shostakovich composed 15 string quartets, while Nikolai Miaskovski, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov and friend of Prokofiev, wrote 13. The string quartets and also the numerous symphonies of the two Russian composers bear witness to the fascination that Beethoven’s œuvre exerted on them.

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7he CBSO – the City of Birming-ham Symphony Orchestra – is no less glowingly refreshing than its purple logo. Founded in 1920, it is now one of the most important British orchestras outside London. Its first concert was conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, while from 1980 to 1998 Sir Simon Rattle and the orchestra attracted interna-tional attention with their per-formances. What Rattle achieved as the orchestra’s coach, Andris Nelsons has continued since 2008 with his sparkling vitality. A Beethoven symphony cycle with him conducting the CBSO promises to be an effervescent affair!

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ith German Galynin and Igor Raykhelson, the Borodin Quartet are presenting two Russian com-posers of the 20th and 21st century and thus continuing the development of this cycle. Galynin, who was taught at the Moscow Conservatory by Dmitri Shosta-kovich and Nikolai Miaskovski, left two string quartets, both of which were first performed and recorded by the Borodin Quartet. In his works, Igor Raykhelson, who was born in St Petersburg in 1961, combines Romantic ref-erences with jazz elements to create what he himself describes as ‘lyrical and melodious music’. The programme concludes with Beethoven’s final completed work.

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Reinforcement from Russia

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Ludwig van Beethoven:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 11 in F minor op. 95 (‘Quartetto serioso’)Igor Raykhelson:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 1 in F minorGerman Galynin:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 2 in F minorLudwig van Beethoven:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 16 in F major op. 135? 39The events of the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price. Subscription price: ? 118

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Annette Dasch Soprano

Lioba Braun Contralto

Toby Spence Tenor

Vuyani Mlinde Bass

CBSO ChorusCity of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraAndris Nelsons Conductor

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9he symphony can hold its head high in the presence of its eight sisters; it is certainly overshad-owed by none. Only its originality testifies to the identity of its father, otherwise everything is not just new, but new in kind.’ With these words, the author of a review that appeared in the ‘Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung’ introduced Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which he described as a ‘miracle’ right after its first performance in 1824. The CBSO under Andris Nelsons is support-ed by the CBSO Chorus directed by Simon Halsey and a quartet of soloists of international sta-ture. The evening promises to be no less an ‘outstanding triumph’ than the work’s first performance.

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oth have won awards as solo-ists – Leonidas Kavakos the In-ternational Jean-Sibelius-Violin Competition in Helsinki (1985) and the Paganini Violin Competi-tion in Genoa (1988), Enrico Pace the International Yamaha Com-petition in Stresa (1987) and the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht (1989). It was their passion for chamber music that brought the two musi-cians together in recent years. In Bonn, the carefully attuned and technically perfect duo are pre-senting Ludwig van Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas on three even-ings, on each occasion combined with a work by the polystylistic Russian composer Lera Auerbach.

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Enrico Pace Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven:Sonata for violin and piano No. 6 in A major op. 30/1Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 in Es major op. 12/3Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in A major op. 12/2Sonata for violin and piano No. 7 in C minor op. 30/2Lera Auerbach:Prelude No. 20 in F major from: 24 Preludes for violin and piano op. 46? 46The events of the Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 117

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‘Passio – Compassio’


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Ensemble SarbandFadia el-Hage & Mustafa Dogan Dikmen Vocals

and further musiciansModern String QuartetVladimir Ivanoff Director, Programme, Arrangements

Five Mevlevi DervishesJudith Haug Projections

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201assion leads to suffering, suffering in turn to passion – the inexorable cycle of earthly life. Probably only the combination of art and religion can change this cycle. With his Arabic, Turkish and German musicians, whirling dervishes, saxophonists and a jazz string quartet, Vladimir Ivanoff invites his audience to a journey to a spiritual space transcending personal and reli-gious barriers, passio becomes compassio. A symbiosis of Johann Sebastian Bach’s passion music, early Christian oriental liturgy and the Muslim ritual of the whirling dervishes.

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ormed as the ‘Moscow Phil-harmonic Quartet’ in the Soviet Union in 1945, the Borodin Quar-tet is one of the oldest string quartets in existence. The en-semble collaborated with Dmitri Shostakovich himself in the first performances of his quartets. Notwithstanding all the genera-tional changes, the Borodin Quartet has retained its special, symphonically dense sound, which predestines it also, and in particular, for the performance of Beethoven’s string quartets. This concert presents each com-poser’s String Quartet No. 14 – two works which come across as symphonic both in their movement structure and in their harmonies.

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IGNUMfive: an ensemble of six (!) musicians – four saxo-phonists, an accordionist, and a percussionist – who left their re-spective homelands of Germany, Slovenia and Serbia to make music together and travel the world. Their roots lie in folk, classical and jazz, to which are added the influences of Latin and Balkan Folk, giving rise to a very individual style. In Bonn SIGNUMfive are devoting them-selves to the ‘Spirito Latino’ of Astor Piazzolla, whose tangos they play as un-selfconsciously as they do ‘Europe’ by Santana or ‘Spain’ by Chick Corea.

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SIGNUMfiveBlaz Kemperle Soprano Saxophone

Erik Nestler Alto Saxophone

Alan Luzar Tenor Saxophone

David Brand Baritone Saxophone

Nikola Djoric Accordion

Volker Reichling Drums

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Enrico Pace Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven:Sonata for violin and piano No. 4 in A minor op. 23Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 in F major op. 24 (‘Spring Sonata’)Sonata for violin and piano No. 10 in G major op. 96Lera Auerbach:Prelude No. 20 in C minor from: 24 Preludes for violin and piano op. 46? 46The events of the Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 117

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he critics like to describe Leonidas Kavakos as idiosyncratic and uncompromising, and for music, this is a great gain. For him the music counts for more than the marketing, the content more than the cover. Under this premiss, he recorded Beet-hoven’s sonatas with the pianist Enrico Pace. Kavakos, who delib-erately concentrates on the ‘spark divine’ of the repertoire for violin, describes his approach to Beethoven’s music thus: ‘One always has to discover something new – not in order to literally invent something, but in order to serve the work even better.’

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Applied Brass


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Mnozil BrassThomas Gansch Trumpet

Robert Rother Trumpet

Roman Rindberger Trumpet

Leonhard Paul Bass Trumpet, Trombone

Gerhard Füssl Trombone

Zoltan Kiss Trombone

Wilfried Brandstötter Tuba

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15hat began as a session in the Josef Mnozil tavern in Vienna has now prominently established itself in the concert business: Mnozil Brass, probably the most eccentric brass septet of the pre-sent day, can congratulate itself on its birthday. ‘Applied brass’ is played for all of life’s twists and turns of the past 20 years. The ensemble comprises seven mu-sicians who trained at Vienna’s University of Music, and are now all professional teachers them-selves. Still courageous and cheeky, with their virtuoso per-formance and inimitable comedy, they create stage moments which make them hugely popular.

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Enrico Pace Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven:Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in D major op. 12/1Sonata for violin and piano No. 8 in G major op. 30/3Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in A major op. 47 (‘Kreutzer Sonata’)Lera Auerbach:Prelude No. 24 in D minor from: 24 Preludes for violin and piano op. 46? 46The events of the Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 117

17hree sonatas, 29 preludes, one postlude, a suite and the work ‘Oskolki’ – these are the works for violin and piano by the composer Lera Auerbach; in total only a fraction of her extremely multifarious œuvre. Born in Russia in 1973, Lera Auerbach studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School in New York. The fact that Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace are playing a piece by Lera Auerbach on all three evenings alongside the Beethoven sonatas allows a more profound insight into the imagin-ative and atmospherically dense works of this award-winning composer.

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n 2013 the Kölner Kammer-orchester – Germany’s oldest chamber orchestra – celebrated its 90th birthday. The Beethoven-fest expresses its cordial best wishes and presents this suc-cessful ensemble, who specialize in the Baroque and Classical repertoire, with a ‘Turkish’ pro-gramme in Bad Honnef. In addi-tion to Süßmayr’s symphony ‘Il Turco in Italia’, they will be playing Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ violin concerto, which, alongside its exotic rhythms, integrates sounds of the Janissary bands. The soloist is the Austrian vio-linist Alexander Janiczek, who is now allowing the experience he gained with the Camerata Salzburg and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to benefit the Kölner Kammerorchester.

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Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestraWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 5 in A major KV 219 (‘The Turkish’)Franz Xaver Süßmayr: ‘Il Turco in Italia’. SinfoniaWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major KV 385 (‘Haffner-Symphony’)? 33 I 26 Sponsored by Kreissparkasse Köln.

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19n improvised jam session in Wiesbaden has, within a few short years, developed into a musical cosmos. The crossing of the paths of musicians Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick was a stroke of good for-tune for the scene. The interplay of classical instruments and re-petitive techno patterns and the unconditional dedication to the body and the dance floor brought a breath of fresh air into the club music business in 2010. In place of laptop music, the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble play on ‘classical’ instruments such as the harp, cello, double bass and vibraphone. In Bonn, the ensemble’s concert is being or-ganized by this year’s student managers at the Young Beet-hovenfest.

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he ARD International Music Competition is one of the most prestigious of its kind. Every year some 200 musicians from more than 40 countries compete in changing categories: in 2013 these categories were violin, viola, bassoon and piano trio. In the bassoon category, Sophie Dartigalongue from France was awarded 2nd prize as well as the audience prize. The young musi-cian, who made a convincing appearance with her elegant, cantabile sound, studied at the Conservatoire in Lyons from 2008 to 2011, and then took up a schol-arship to attend the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philhar-monic. Since 2012 she has been studying for a master’s degree at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, and has been an established member of the Berlin Philharmonic since May 2013.

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Anna Kirichenko Piano

Robert Schumann: Fantasy Pieces for clarinet and piano op. 73 (version for bassoon and piano)Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in G minor op. 5/2 (version for bassoon and piano)Alexandre Ouzounoff: New work (first performance, work commissioned by Sophie Dartigalongue)Alexandre Tansman: Suite for bassoon and pianoCamille Saint-Säens: Sonata for bassoon and piano in G major op. 168? 23 Joint event with Schumannfest Bonn.

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raditions and rituals: the per-formance ‘Fund.Stücke’ (‘Objets trouvés’) uses various action groups ‘who in some cases must be prepared, but in others can come spontaneously from the au-dience’ (Gerhard Stäbler). Philipp Maintz retraces the model, Beet-hoven’s ‘Triple Concerto’, the ancient soli-tutti confrontation. His new work for four soloists and ensemble has been com-posed in close collaboration with the Studio musikFabrik. Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Ritual Fragment’ reflects on violence, shock and obsession.

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Gerhard Stäbler: ‘Fund.Stücke – Ein Vabanque-Spiel’. Performance involving the audiencePhilipp Maintz: New work for bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano and ensemble (first performance, work com-missioned by the Beethovenfest Bonn)Jo Kondo: ‘Under The Umbrella’ for five players, 25 graduated cow-bells, 1 gong (very low)Harrison Birtwistle: ‘Ritual Fragment’. A ceremony for fourteen musicians in memory of Michael Vyner? 30

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Late Works by Candlelight

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Ludwig van Beethoven:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 15 in A minor op. 132Dmitri Shostakovich:Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 15 in E flat minor op. 144? 30The events of the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 118

In co-operation with Bürgerstiftung Rheinviertel

23his concert, which will be held by candlelight, brings us to the end of our three-year Beet-hoven string-quartet cycle. All 16 of Beethoven’s string quartets will have been played. They were combined with works by Russian composers, who have a great affinity for the genre and for the compositions of Beethoven. This final concert comprises two ‘last’ works: Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 132 is the last of the three quartets dedicated to the Russian Prince Nikolaus Galitzin, and No. 15 is the last work by Shostakovich in this genre. Fare-well, mourning and resignation are its dominant themes.

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t the age of 16, Param Vir, who was born in Delhi, heard his first Beethoven recording. In 1971, as a student, he was allowed to play Beethoven’s fortepiano in the Beethoven-Haus. Decades later, in 2014, by now a globally successful composer, he has written a song cycle to words by Rabindranath Tagore for the Beethovenfest Bonn. Burkhard Kehring has supplemented the modern and traditional Indian music with songs from Olivier Messiaen’s song cycle on the theme of heaven and earth and from ‘Harawi’, sung by Christiane Iven.

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Christiane Iven Soprano

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay Vocals

Pandit Sankha Chatterjee Tabla


‘Divan of song – India’Param Vir: Songs from Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’. Song Cycle to words by Rabindranath Tagore, trans lation by William Radice (first per form-ance, work commissioned by the Beethovenfest Bonn)Olivier Messiaen: Selected songs along with traditional Indian songs to words by Rabindranath Tagore and tabla improvisations? 30The events of the ‘Divan of song’ can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 75

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Profoundly felt Interpretation

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Stefan Cassomenos Piano(2nd prize and special prize (chamber music) at the Inter national Telekom Beethoven Competition, Bonn 2013)

Joseph Haydn:Sonata for piano in B minor Hob. XVI:32Ludwig van Beethoven:Sonata for piano No. 21 in C major op. 53 (‘Waldstein Sonata’)Carl Vine:Toccatissimo for pianoFranz Schubert:Fantasia for piano in C major D 760 (‘Wanderer-Fantasy’)Sergei Prokofiev:Sonata for piano No. 6 A major op. 82? 30 In co-operation with International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn.

25eethoven’s piano concerto No. 5 was the piece with which Stefan Cassomenos convinced the jury at the 5th International Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn. Pavel Gililov, the president of the jury and artistic director of the competition, praised, in partic-ular, Cassomenos’s ‘profoundly felt interpretation of Beethoven’ works’. On the basis of his ex-perience as a pianist, composer and conductor, the young Aus-tralian also knew precisely what mattered in the interplay of solo ist and orchestra. It is with Beethoven once again that Stefan Cassomenos is appearing before an audience in Bonn at the prizewinners’ concert at the Beethovenfest.

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À la Paganini

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Thomas Zehetmair Violin

Niccolò Paganini: 24 Caprices for solo violin op. 1? 30In co-operation with Bürgerstiftung Rheinviertel.

26hen Niccolò Paganini left Italy for the first time in 1828, his repu-tation as a devilish artist preceded him. In Austria to start with, and then in the rest of Europe, he was lionized. The expression ‘à la Paganini’ even found its way into other areas of everyday life. As a composer Paganini bore impres-sive witness to his virtuosity with his 24 Caprices. The evening’s performer, Thomas Zehetmair, is famous and successful the world over as a violinist and conductor. He recorded Paganini’s ‘Caprices’ in 2009: ‘These pieces are not études, nor are they unemotional pyrotechnics but character pieces full of poetry and imagination.

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Isabelle Faust

iano trio and orchestra: since Beethoven, few composers have dared write anything for this curious instrumentation. With Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Kristian Bezuiden-hout, three artists are devoting themselves to the work who combine solo brilliance with the precise co-operation expected of a chamber music ensemble. They will be accompanied by Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, which, following its suc-cessful first visit in 2011, is once again giving two concerts in Bonn. The energetic style of the young Chief Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will no doubt come in handy for the late-Romantic tone poem ‘Ein Heldenleben’ (‘A Hero’s Life’), completed in 1898, which is scored for a large orchestra.

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Jean-Guihen Queyras Cello

Kristian Bezuidenhout Piano Rotterdams Philharmonisch OrkestYannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra in C major op. 56 (‘Triple Concerto’)Richard Strauss: ‘Ein Heldenleben’. Symphonic Poem for orchestra op. 40? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 227. 3 0 P M


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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor? 66 I 57 I 46 I 35 I 23


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28hey simply call him Yannick: ‘Yannick conducts Mahler’, ‘Yannick conducts Bruckner’ proclaim the posters that the orchestra pastes up all over Rotterdam. But it is not just in the Dutch port that the young conductor has been wowing concertgoers with his openness and charisma. On the second evening of his residency with the phenomenal Rotterdam orchestra, Yannick is devoting himself to Gustav Mahler’s sixth symphony, which, as the composer himself asserted, ‘throws up puzzles’ …

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Iiro Rantala Trio

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Dieter Ilg Bass

Morten Lund Drums

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29he pianist Iiro Rantala is Finland’s internationally most successful jazz musician. After studying in Helsinki and New York, he formed the trio Töykeät, Finland’s best-known jazz band, and one of the craziest piano trios on the international jazz scene. Following a brief but me-teoric solo career, Iiro Rantala has returned to the life à trois: at the Beethovenfest he is intro-ducing his new ensemble, with the Danish jazz drummer Morten Lund and the bassist Dieter Ilg from Freiburg in Germany. The occasion is guaranteed to be as wild as it is witty!

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udi Stephan, born in Worms in 1887, was one of the exponents of early ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’. Killed in action in 1915, he left a small but impressive corpus of works, including the ‘Music for Orches-tra’, written in 1912, a single-movement work which bears wit-ness to his confrontation with the work of such contemporaries as Schönberg, Debussy, Stravinsky and Scriabin. It leads into Paul Hindemith’s ‘Chamber Music No. 5’, whose demanding solo part is played by the Norwegian viola-player Lars Anders Tomter. Richard Strauss’s ‘Sinfonia Domestica’, first performed with the composer on the rostrum in New York on 31 March 1904, betrays autobiographical fea-tures and basks in late-Romantic narrative sound.

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Beethoven Orchester BonnStefan Blunier Conductor

Rudi Stephan: Music for OrchestraPaul Hindemith: Chamber Music No. 5 for solo viola and large chamber orchestra op. 36/4Richard Strauss: ‘Sinfonia Domestica’. Symphonic Poem for orchestra op. 53? 55 I 47 I 38 I 30 I 20

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Four Musicians, Three Fourteens

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Kuss QuartettBennewitz QuartetQuatuor Zaïde‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’Franz Schubert: Allegro assai for string quartet in C minor D 703 (‘Quartet Movement’)Josef Suk: Meditace na staroceský chorál ‘Svatý Václave’ (Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale ‘St Wenceslas’) for string quartet op. 35a Oliver Schneller: ‘Introjections’ for string quartetArnold Schoenberg: ‘Verklärte Nacht’ for two violins, two violas and two cellos? 30

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‘All Ears for Half’Sponsored by Knauber.

311814: Congress of Vienna. 1914: outbreak of the Great War. 2014: Reflexion? Retrospect? The periods which this concert covers in a great arc from Viennese Clas-sicism to the present day take in a major slice of European cultural history: the re-drawing of the map of the continent and its political landscape in 1814, the awakening of the nations and the disaster of 1914, and the modern Europe of 2014. Musically, these changes are represented by Schubert’s mood of a new dawn, Suk’s nationalist Bohemian self-confidence, Arnold Schönberg’s fin-de-siècle sensibil-ities, and Oliver Schneller’s highly rarefied new musical language.

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he String Quartet No. 1 by Leoš Janácek, written in 1923 and known as the ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, is based on the novella of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, who in turn took his title from Beethoven’s Violin Sonata. We know from Tolstoy’s letters that either the protagonists them-selves or individual events of the novella are assigned to each of the four movements. In this concert, Valentin Erben explains not only the programmatic and compositional peculiarities of the work, but also contrasts an interpretation by the Czech Bennewitz Quartet with one by the French Quatuor Zaïde. Listen and compare for yourself!

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Münchner PhilharmonikerLorin Maazel Conductor

Antonín Dvorák: Concert Overture ‘Karneval’ op. 92Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A major op. 16Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor op. 95 (‘From the New World’)? 120 I 100 I 80 I 60 I 40


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203he name ‘From the New World’ is a reference to Antonín Dvorák’s stay in New York, where he was director of the National Conservatory of Music of America for three years. The music, which according to the composer con-tains no Indian or American motifs but is written ‘purely in the spirit of American folk songs’, dates from 1893, the year which wit-nessed the formation of the Munich Philharmonic. On 16 December of the same year the work received its first per form-ance by the New York Philhar-monic, which Lorin Maazel conducted from 2002 to 2009.

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nce again three dates: the first performance of Beethoven’s F minor quartet and the re-order-ing of Europe in 1814, echoes of Czech nationalism in Antonín Dvorák’s op. 106, and the moving music of Slavomír Horínka in-spired by the Lampedusa refugee drama in 2013. This musical jour-ney sketches Europe’s history from the discovery of cultural identity across the awakening of nationalist emotions all the way to the migration issues of the present day.

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Bennewitz QuartetHeath QuartetQuatuor Zaïde‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 11 in F minor op. 95 (‘Quartetto serioso’)Antonín Dvorák: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 13 in G major op. 106Slavomír Horínka: ‘Songs of Immigrants’ for two violins, viola and cello? 307. 3 0 P M


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RajatonEssi Wuorela Soprano

Virpi Moskari Soprano

Soila Sariola Contralto

Hannu Lepola Tenor

Ahti Paunu Baritone

Jussi Chydenius Bass

A cappella songs by Abba, Queen and Sting along with Finnish traditionals.? 28 I 20Sponsored by Stadtwerke Bonn.

35ocal ensembles the world over sing Christmas carols and the standards of the twentieth century, some devote them- selves to jazz, while others turn to the classical choral literature. Others again turn towards pop, or specialize in the church music repertoire, or sing their own music. And then there’s one ensemble, founded in Helsinki in 1997, which simply sings every-thing, and calls itself Rajaton. This Finnish word means ‘bound-less’, and there’s no better way to describe the ensemble’s style. In Bonn, the six singers will be presenting a multifaceted pro-gramme, ranging from Finnish traditionals to pop hits.

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eatime: twelve young musi-cians join up in various combina-tions. Three composers, three musical landscapes: the sum mery Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf, and Ralph Vaughan Williams‘s ‘Phantasy Quintet’, inspired by English landscape gardens, pro-vide a frame for Béla Bartók’s revolutionary third string quartet, in which we hear distant echoes of Hungarian folk melodies.

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ince their formation in 1991, Singer Pur – originally consisting of five former members of the Regensburg Cathedral boys’ choir plus one soprano – have developed into one of the most sought-after a cappella forma-tions and can boast of being the ‘currently leading German-lan-guage vocal ensemble’. It is their pleasure in experimentation and the resulting unusual program-mes that make up the outstand-ing features of Singer Pur. For Bonn, the ensemble has chosen works from the Christian Mass along with secular songs to compile an Art-Cult-Liturgy programme which provides im-pressive proof of music’s power to create meaning.

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Singer Pur Claudia Reinhard Soprano

Klaus Wenk Tenor

Markus Zapp Tenor

Manuel Warwitz Tenor

Reiner Schneider-Waterberg Baritone

Marcus Schmidl Bass

‘Solo for Cult’ Martin Smolka: ‘Alma redemptoris mater’ (first performance)and a cappella works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Josquin des Préz, Johannes Brahms, John Cage, Arvo Pärt, Sting and others? 23Sponsored by Kreissparkasse Köln.

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he pianist Sebastian Knauer may be firmly rooted in his native Hamburg – but he could reason-ably describe Bonn as his second home, given how often he ap-pears at the Beethovenfest. For the first of his three concerts at this year’s festival, he has ap-proached the classical repertoire from a very particular direction: all the pieces have since become classics of the piano repertoire. They are, furthermore, arranged around Beethoven as the ‘centre of gravity’: his second ‘Sonata quasi una fantasia’ (1801) is also at the chronological centre of the programme.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for piano No. 11 in A major KV 331 (‘Alla turca’)Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 14 in C sharp minor op. 27/2 (‘Sonata quasi una fantasia’)Franz Schubert: Hungarian Melody for piano in B minor D 817Franz Schubert: Allegretto for piano in C minor D 915Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus for piano op. 90 D 899? 62Joint event with ‘Concerts at Burg Namedy’.

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t is actually Josef Bulva’s third career: at the age of just 21 he was appointed the ‘state soloist’ of what was then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic; in 1972 he emigrated to Luxem-bourg, and went on to enjoy worldwide success as a pianist. In March 1996 he slipped on an icy road and injured his left hand so badly that it seemed to mark the end of his career. After a break of 13 years, a minor medi-cal miracle and above all with the help of iron discipline, Josef Bulva has now played his way back on to the stage. Works by Beethoven and Chopin always used to be one of this unusual pianist’s great passions, and they continue to form the core of his repertoire.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 13 in E flat major op. 27/1 (‘Sonata quasi una fantasia’)Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for piano No. 2 in B flat minor op. 35Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 23 in F minor op. 57 (‘Appassionata’)Karol Szymanowski: ‘Masques’ for piano op. 34 ? 39Sponsored by Kreissparkasse Köln.

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Three-layer Music


hree musical layers are to hear at the same time in the string quartet by Sofia Gubai-dulina: two from the tape, one raised by a quarter tone, while the third is played live. Sofia Gubaidulina’s complex twelve-part score, dating from 1993, finds its place here as a ten- minute monument to modernity between Joseph Haydn’s classic piece, which was written a year before Mozart’s death, and Franz Schubert’s melancholy final string quartet, composed a year before Beethoven’s death.

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ehrings GOYA III. Veía la mano, pero como alelado is the third work in his GOYA cycle, each work re-flecting certain parallel aspects of the lives and works of Francisco de Goya and Ludwig van Beet-hoven. The quotation in title Veía la mano, pero como alelado (‘He looked at his hand, as in simple amazement’) derives from Goya’s friend Leocadia Zorrilla, who in a letter reported on the artist’s death. In a parallel with the life of the aging Beet hoven, who like Goya was deaf and used his hands to communicate through sign language, this quote takes on a complex meaning. Compo sitionally, Oehring refer-ences Beethoven’s late string quartet op. 131, whose inner con-flicts and complex structure his contemporaries found disturbing.

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‘All Ears for Half’An event of the Beethovenfest Bonn in co-operation with the Bundeskunsthalle.

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Ode to Friendship


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Deutsche Welle presents:C A M P U S C O N C E R TCigdem Soyarslan Soprano

Asude Karayavuz Mezzosoprano

Andreas Schager Tenor

Selcuk Cara Baritone

Beethoven Project Choir of Kreuzkirche BonnKarin Freist-Wissing Rehearsals

Bilkent Youth Symphony OrchestraIsın Metin Conductor

Tolga Yayalar: New Work (first performance, commis-sioned by Deutsche Welle)Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125? 30 I 23 I 16


7. 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’ Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.Sponsored by RWE, the German Foreign Ministry and the North Rhine Westphalia State Ministry of the Family, Children, Young People, Culture and Sport.

he focus is on Turkey for the third year of ‘Beethoven ile bulusma – Encounter with Beet-hoven’: at the Orchestra Campus organized by Deutsche Welle and Beethovenfest Bonn, the guests are the young musicians of the Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra from the prestigious private Bilkent University in Ankara. The climax of their week-long stay is the concert in the Beethovenhalle. On the pro-gramme is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the vocal passages being sung by Turkish and German soloists and a choir from Bonn – a project emphatically devoted to mutual acquaintance-ship and friendly exchange.

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hree first prizes at interna tion-al piano competitions in the space of a year laid the foundations for the 35-year-old Romanian-born Herbert Schuch’s rise to the pin-nacle of global pianism. One of the competitions was the Vienna International Beethoven Compe-tition, dedicated to a composer whom the artist includes in his sophisticated programmes time and again. In Bonn he is com-bining two late piano works by Beethoven with a highly virtuoso piece by the American composer Frederic Rzewski, along with eleven works by Ligeti, which were influenced by Bartók and Hungarian folk themes.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelles for piano op. 119 György Ligeti: ‘Musica ricercata’ for pianoFrederic Rzewski: ‘Winnsboro cotton mill blues’ for piano (No. 4 from ‘Four North American Ballads’)Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 32 in C minor op. 111 ? 33

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central project of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO) is ‘The Beethoven Journey’ with the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Ands-nes, in which Beethoven’s five piano concertos along with his ‘Choral Fantasy’ are combined with works by Igor Stravinsky. The project culminates in the 2014/2015 season, when the complete cycle will be presented in some ten international music centres, the Beethovenfest Bonn, and also the Lucerne Festival, Vienna, London, Paris and New York. Leif Ove Andsnes, who has been the Artistic Partner of the MCO since 2012, will conduct the orchestra from the piano.

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Ludwig van Beethoven:Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in B flat major op. 19Igor Stravinsky:‘Apollon Musagète’. Ballet music for string orchestraLudwig van Beethoven:Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 4 in G major op. 58? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22The events of the Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription prices: ? 159 I 132 I 105 I 81 I 54


7. 3 0 P MO R C H E S T R A P O RT R A I T‘All Ears for Half’ Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.The residency of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra is sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW.

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Hugh Masekela Trumpet, Vocals

Larry Willis Piano

‘Hugh Masekela – The 75 Years Celebration Tour 2014’? 32Joint event with Harmonie Endenich.

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he trumpeter Hugh Masekela, born in South Africa in 1939, is one of the greats of African jazz. At the same time, he cannot be pigeon-holed into any one genre. He plays jazz, rock and afro funk, had a pop hit with ‘Grazing in the Grass’ in 1968, and stormed the dance charts in 1984 with ‘Don‘t go lose it Baby‘. He fought against apartheid, was married to the singer and human rights activist Miriam Makeba, and found a mentor in Harry Belafonte. With the pianist Larry Willis, who began his career under Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he released a CD edition in 2012, which ‘Rolling Stone’, for example, praised with the comment: ‘Damn do they swing!’.

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Jan Lisiecki Piano

Baltic Sea Youth PhilharmonicKristjan Järvi Conductor

‘Baltic Voyage’ Modest Mussorgski: ‘A Night on the Bare Mountain’. Symphonic PoemEdvard Grieg: Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor op. 16Jean Sibelius: ‘Karelia’ Suite op. 11Gediminas Gelgotas: ‘Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean’ for orchestraImants Kalnins: First movement from the Symphony No. 4 (‘Rock Symphony’)? 30 I 23 I 16


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46he Polish-Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki – who already ap-peared at the Beethovenfest Bonn in 2012 – is just 19 years old and is attracting attention worldwide. He is particularly praised for his brilliant and mu-sically confident interpretations and his natural manner of play-ing, which predestines him in particular for Grieg’s highly romantic piano concerto. Jan Lisiecki is accompanied by the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic and their founding conductor, Kristjan Järvi from Estonia. The two take the audience on a musical voyage through the countries from which the mem-bers of the orchestra come.

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t was their passion for cham-ber music that brought Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff together with Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister to form a string quartet in 1994. And although the artists could only work together on and off, the ensemble soon became one of the most sought-after string quartets of the age. The programme in Bonn includes two demanding late works: Schubert’s final string quartet was composed at the same time as Beethoven’s opus 132. These are radical works which repre-sent the summation of all the experiments in sound and form of their creators.

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Tetzlaff QuartettChristian Tetzlaff Violin

Elisabeth Kufferath Violin

Hanna Weinmeister Viola

Tanja Tetzlaff Cello

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 15 in A minor op. 132Franz Schubert: Quartet for two violins, viola and cello No. 15 in G major op. 161 D 887? 46

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Success Story

n 1970 the two friends Chuck Daellenbach and Gene Watts formed a brass quintet. To their mutual surprise, the result was a success story which has now lasted for more than 40 years, and made Canadian Brass one of the world’s best known brass ensembles. And rightly so, for each player is a virtuoso on his own instrument, while the crea-tivity of the ensemble, and the pleasure they take in exploiting all the possibilities of a pure brass formation, are overwhelm-ing. And not least, none of them take their music too seriously …

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Canadian BrassChristopher Coletti Trumpet

Caleb Hudson Trumpet

Bernhard Scully Horn

Achilles Liarmakopoulos Trombone

Chuck Daellenbach Tuba

‘From American Tradition to Penny Lane’Cult works by Ludwig van Beet-hoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, George Gershwin, the Beatles and others? 26 I 20Sponsored by Kreissparkasse Köln.

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ichard Wagner and Gustav Mahler are two fixtures in the repertoire of Waltraud Meier; in July 2013 this ‘passionate Wagnerian’ received the Special Prize of the newly created Bavar-ian Music Prize, while Mahler’s ‘Lied von der Erde’ provided the title for a film portrait that ap-peared on DVD in 2009. At the Bonn concert she brings together the three great song cycles of the two composers, which, in their late-Romantic idiom, tell of pain and longing, and in their radical openness look far ahead into the twentieth century. This is Waltraud Meier’s first appear-ance at the Beethovenfest Bonn.

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Waltraud Meier Mezzosoprano

Joseph Breinl Piano

Gustav Mahler: ‘Kindertotenlieder’. Song Cycle for one voice and piano to words by Friedrich RückertRichard Wagner: Five Songs for a female voice to poems by Mathilde Wesendonck WWV 91 (‘Wesendonck Lieder’)Gustav Mahler: Five Songs for voice and piano to words by Friedrich Rückert (‘Rückert Lieder’)? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22In co-operation with Theater Bonn.

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n the second concert of the ‘Beethoven Journey’ one can hear Beethoven’s third piano con-certo and also his Choral Fantasy, a piece that is unique in its instru-mentation and which combines elements of a piano fantasy, a piano concerto and a cantata. The choral part is sung by the WDR Radio Chorus, who will also be perform ing another piece unac-companied. As with all the con-certs of the ‘Beethoven Journey’, the programme is rounded off with a piece by Igor Stravinsky. Leiv Ove Andsnes explains this unusual combination of Beethoven and Stravinsky: ‘For me, these two composers, together with a few others, such as Berlioz, Chopin, Debussy, are the most inno vative minds in musical history.’

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BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTOS 2WDR Radio Chorus Mahler Chamber OrchestraLeif Ove Andsnes Piano, Conductor

Igor Stravinsky: ‘Dumbarton Oaks’. Concerto in E flat for string orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in C minor op. 37Arnold Schönberg: ‘Friede auf Erden’ for mixed choir a cappella op. 13Ludwig van Beethoven: Fantasia for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor op. 80 (‘Choral Fantasy’)? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22The events of the Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription prices: ? 159 I 132 I 105 I 81 I 54


Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.The residency of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra is sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW.

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Pointing the Way Ahead


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Elisabeth Brauß Piano(Winner of 1st prize and audience prize at the TONALi Grand Prix 2013)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 7 in D major op. 10/3Sergei Prokofjev: Sonata for piano No. 2 in D minor op. 14Paul Hindemith: ‘In einer Nacht ... Träume und Erlebnisse’ for piano op. 15Robert Schumann: ‘Faschingsschwank aus Wien’. Fantasy scenes for piano op. 26? 23 Joint event with Schumannfest Bonn.

51n impressive interpretation of Beethoven’s third piano concerto and an effervescent personality were behind the (then) 18-year-old Elisabeth Brauß’s victory: in the final round of the TONALi Grand Prix on 31 August 2013 the young pianist from Hanover won not only the main prize but also the audience prize. For this, the TONALi participants had to face a number of school-student jurors, who assessed an experi-mental concerto programme (with spoken introductions). ‘It is different. It is creative, idio-syncratic and in every respect forward-looking.’ (Christoph Eschenbach on TONALi)

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here is a seemingly insignifi-cant genre which owes its exis-tence to Beethoven: the Baga-telle. Beethoven, who also in his major works pursued un com-promising abbreviation and concen tration of the musical statement, turned the aphoristic form of the bagatelle into some-thing worthy of the concert hall. Since then musical life has been incon ceiv able without its Baga-telles. Together with the actress Hannelore Elsner and the Danish Ensemble Carion, Sebastian Knauer, in one of his tried-and-tested ‘Word meets Music’ pro-grammes, juxtaposes bagatelles by Beethoven with works by Ligeti.

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Hannelore Elsner Recitation

Ensemble CarionAnete Toca Flute

Egils Upatnieks Oboe

Egı ls Šefers Clarinet

David M.A.P. Palmquist Horn

Niels Anders Vedsten Larsen Bassoon


Wolfgang Knauer Compilation of texts

‘Ein Ciclus von Kleinigkeiten’ (‘A Cycle of Trifles’) Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelles for piano (selection)György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for wind quintetLudwig van Beethoven: Quintet for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano in E flat major op. 16? 33

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he protagonists of the ‘Beet-hoven Journey’ are the Norwe-gian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO), who have been perform-ing and releasing recordings of Beethoven’s piano concertos to-gether since 2012. At the same time, the very name of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra points not only to the roots of the ensemble in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, but also to the basic chamber-music attitude of all the MCO musicians, an attitude that characterizes their per-formances. It gives the works of Beethoven and Stravinsky a transparency that brings out their compositional structure and, as Andsnes puts it, ‘makes the whole thing a great chamber music event’.

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Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestraLudwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in C major op. 15Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 5 in E flat major op. 73 (‘The Emperor’)? 65 I 54 I 43 I 33 I 22The events of the Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle can be booked as a subscription with a reduced price.Subscription prices: ? 159 I 132 I 105 I 81 I 54


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‘All Ears for Half’Deutsche Welle Festival Concert.The residency of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra is sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW.

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Christian Juslin Florestan (Tenor)

NN Leonore (Soprano)

Giorgos Kanaris Don Fernando (Baritone)

Mark Morouse Don Pizarro (Baritone)

Priit Volmer Rocco (Bass)

Nikola Hillebrand Marzelline (Soprano)

Tamás Tarjányi Jaquino (Tenor)

Chorus and Extra Chorus of Theater BonnBeethoven Orchester BonnHendrik Vestmann Conductor

Jakob Peters-Messer Director

Guido Petzold Lighting

Sven Bindseil Costumes

Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Fidelio’. Opera in two acts op. 72 (premiere)? 93,50 I 82,50 I 71,50 I 60,50 I 11A event of Theater Bonn in co-operationwith the Beethovenfest Bonn.

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Giorgos Kanaris

udwig van Beethoven’s only opera was premiered in its defini-tive version on 23 April 1814 at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna – short ly before the start of the Con-gress of Vienna on 18 September, the bicentenary of which falls dur ing this year’s festival. To mark the anniversary, a stage version of ‘Fidelio’ is being produced in Bonn for the first time since the 2005/2006 season. Jakob Peters-Messer, who has directed works on all the major German stages, is taking on Beet hoven’s stage work for the first time. In his direction concepts, this internationally sought-after director always puts his trust in the music – in the process, the political statement of ‘Fidelio’ can only benefit.

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Beethoven and the Congress of Vienna

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Hannelore Elsner Recitation


Wolfgang Knauer Compilation of texts

‘… und sich dabei stets vornehm benommen’. (‘… and behaved comme il faut all the time’) – Ludwig van Beethoven and the Congress of ViennaLudwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano No. 27 in E minor op. 90Seven Variations on‘God save the King’ for piano in C major WoO 78Five Variations on ‘Rule Britan-nia’ for piano in D major WoO 79Polonaise for piano in C major op. 89 and other works ? 26Sponsored by Kreissparkasse Köln.

55oth the start of the Congress of Vienna and the premiere of the definitive version of ‘Fidelio’ took place in 1814. Both events can be seen as late consequences of the French Revolution, both con-tinued to have an effect into the twentieth century and beyond. With documents from 1814 and modern political and literary texts, Wolfgang and Sebastian Knauer re-tell the story of the Congress of Vienna, with Beet-hoven in the thick of it, enjoying his role as the lionized ‘state musician’. Hannelore Elsner, much decorated Grande Dame of German film, lends her voice to the world of the Congress of Vienna.

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Historic Concert

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August Zirner Recitation Kirsten Blaise Soprano

Orchester Wiener AkademieMartin Haselböck Conductor

‘200 Years since the Congress of Vienna’Ludwig van Beethoven: Incidental music to Goethe’s Tragedy ‘Egmont’ op. 84Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major op. 93Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Wellington’s Victory or the Battle of Vittoria’ op. 91 ? 55 I 47 I 38 I 30 I 20


56n 21 June 1813, the troops of the British Duke of Wellington, defeated the French on the plain of Vittoria. To mark this victory, at the end of that year Ludwig van Beethoven composed ‘Wellington’s Victory or the Bat tle of Vittoria’. To commemorate the historic performance on 27 February 1814 – in a concert which also saw the first perform-ance of Beethoven’s eighth sym-phony – the Orchester Wiener Akademie has combined the musical ‘battle scene’ with the eighth symphony and the no less politically important incidental music to Goethe’s ‘Egmont’; the role of Egmont is taken on in Bonn by August Zirner, the well known film and stage actor.

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y music comes from the heart. The only thing that I would like to do in life is to play the piano; without the piano I can’t live!’ Anyone who has experienced the Cuban pianist Marialy Pacheco, who in 2012 won the Montreux Jazz Award, one of the most sought-after prizes in the jazz scene, will only confirm this. The performances of this classically trained musician combine the rhythms of her Cuban homeland with her love of jazz and its impro-visations. In Bonn the musi cian is appearing with her Colombian trio. They are supported by the German jazz trumpeter Joo Kraus.

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Marialy Pacheco Piano

Juan Camilo Villa Bass

Miguel Altamar Drums

Joo Kraus Trumpet

‘Introducing’Traditional Cuban and Latin American compositions, own compositions and jazz standards in the Latin style ? 20Joint event with Harmonie Endenich.

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Symphonic Northern Lights

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Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic OrchestraChristian Lindberg Trombone, Conductor

Ole Olsen: ‘Aasgaardsreien’. Symphonic Poem for orchestra op. 10Christian Lindberg: ‘Kundraan and the Arctic Light’ for trombone and small orchestraPeter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor op. 36? 55 I 47 I 38 I 30 I 20


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58orway is swimming against the current: in 2009 formed the world’s most northerly orchestra beyond the Arctic Circle. The Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Chris-tian Lindberg, who is known to the Beethovenfest audience for his concert with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn in 2013. As last year, he is appear ing this year too as composer, trombonist and conductor, and continuing his musical ‘Kun draan’ narrative. Two symphonic works of the late Romantic era – by the Norwegian composer and Wagnerian Ole Olsen and Peter Tchaikovsky – round off the programme.

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Korean Winter

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Kwangchul Youn Bass Burkhard Kehring Piano, Concept

‘Divan of song – Korea’Hannah Hanbiel Choi: ‘Engel I’ (‘Angel I’) and ‘Engel III’ (‘Angel III’) for piano (first performance)Myung-Sun Lee: ‘Engel II’ (‘Angel II’) and ‘Engel IV’ (‘Angel IV’) for piano (first performance)Franz Schubert: Lieder Cycle ‘Die Winterreise’ D 911? 33The events of the ‘Divan of song’ can be booked as a subscription at a reduced price.Subscription price: ? 75

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59 work such as Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ has long since tran-scended national listening boundaries. One could certainly imagine the lonely wanderer of his moving lieder cycle in the Korean winter too for after all traditional Korean music has enough melancholy atmosphere. But he is accompanied by four angels. In Bonn Schubert’s lieder are sung by the Korean bass Kwangchul Youn, celebrated worldwide on the operatic stage; the cycle is restructured with the inter position of four newly composed reflective interludes by Korean composers.

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fter his much fêted solo reci-tal at the 2011 Beethovenfest, Arcadi Volodos is returning to Bonn with Beethoven’s third piano concerto, one of the first of the genre with symphonic features. The final piece of the evening is, in spite of its title, which makes it sound like cham-ber music, also a symphonic composition: lasting a good 40 minutes and with its large-scale instrumentation, the D major Serenade by Johannes Brahms borders on the status of sym-phony. The Deutsche Kammer-philharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi is known for its lean and transparent orchestral sound, and thus predestined for this work. With the Serenade No. 1, they are bringing not only their Brahms cycle to an end, but also the Beethovenfest 2014.

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Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie BremenPaavo Järvi Conductor

Krzysztof Penderecki: ‘Sinfonietta per archi’Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in C minor op. 37Johannes Brahms: Serenade for orchestra No. 1 in D major op. 11? 96 I 83 I 67 I 49 I 35


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H O W T O G E T Y O U R T I C K E T

Tickets available from 12 April.The advantage: Choose your own seat and print out your own ticket.

I N T E R N E T

www.beethovenfest.de

Booking possible with immedi -ate effect. Applications will be processed in the order received. Tickets, if ordered by 17 April (date of postmark), will be sent where available by 2 May at the latest (with invoice). The advantage: easy booking from home.

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Beethovenfest BonnKurt-Schumacher-Straße 3D-53113 Bonn

Tickets are available from all the well-known advance booking offices from 3 May. The advantage: personal service in your vicinity.

A D V A N C E B O O K I N G O F F I C E S

Selected advance booking office addresses can be found on the back flap.

Tickets available from 3 May. The advantage: quick and easy service.

T E L E P H O N E

+49(0)228 - 50 20 13 13(Mon-Fri 8am to 8pm, Sat 9am to 6pm, Sun 10am to 4pm)

Unsold tickets, if any, can be bought at the venue one hour be-fore the start of the concert. For some concerts, the Beet hoven-fest Bonn guarantees school and college students (below the age of 30) a quota of last-minute tickets. These concerts are marked in the programme over-view with the logo . Please bring a valid student card.

O N T H E D A Y

The addresses of our concert venues can be found on page 83/84.

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Getting to the concert (local public transport):Admission tickets to concerts are also valid at no additional charge for journeys on the regional public transport network Verkehrsver-bund Rhein-Sieg (VRS). You can use all VRS routes at any time within four hours of the start of the event; the return journey must be completed no more than four hours after the end of the event.

Concession rates:Children from the age of 3, stu-dents and trainees below the age of 30, federal volunteers, job-seekers, disabled people and those in possession of the ‘Bonn Ausweis’ are entitled to a reduc-tion of 50 % on the ticket price. You are asked to produce evi-dence of such entitlement (with-out having to be specifically asked) at the door.

Waiting List:When all seats for a concert are sold out, the Beethovenfest pro-vides a special service: in the in-ternet at www.beethovenfest.de you can enter your name (without obligation) on a waiting list for the event in question. You will then be informed by e-mail if tickets for this concert become available.

Charges:The prices printed in this booklet are inclusive of handling charges and the flat charge made by the VRS for use of its routes, which together account for € 1.62 per ticket. Advance booking offices also charge 10 % of the ticket price as a booking fee. For written

and phone reservations (by post or by e-mail) Bonnticket will charge a processing and mailing fee of € 3.90 per order which will be added to the 10 % booking fee. Admis sion tickets will by default be sent by standard post, with no liability for loss on the part of the vendor. If you wish your tickets to be sent by regis tered mail, Bonnticket will charge a flat fee of € 6.90 (€ 5.90 in the internet). Via www.beethovenfest.de you can print out your tickets comfortably at home. Bonnticket makes a charge of € 1.00 per order for this service.

General Information:Concert tickets cannot be retur-ned or exchanged when orders are only partially taken up. No responsibility is assumed for changes in programmes, performers, dates or venues. No claim for return of tickets may be based on such changes. Only when an event is cancelled altogether will the purchase price be refunded upon presen-tation of the ticket within a two month period. Latecomers are only admitted during breaks in the concert.

Audio-video recordings:No form of recording, whether audio, film, video or photograph, is permitted, not even for private use. In case of violation, the au-dio and video material may be confiscated. Some of the con-certs will be recorded for radio and/or television broadcast. Con-certgoers implicitly declare their consent to these recordings and to any pictures that might be made of them.

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Aula der UniversitätRegina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53113 Bonn Entrance via ArkadenhofU/S 16, 18, 63, 66

Universität/Markt

Marktgarage

BeethovenhalleWachsbleiche 16, 53111 BonnBox Office: +49(0)228 – 7 22 23 33Bus 551, 600, 601

Beethovenhalle

U/S 62, 65, 66, 67 Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz

in the Beethovengarage, Theaterstraße

Beethoven-HausKammermusiksaalBonngasse 24–26, 53111 BonnU/S 63, 65, 66, 67

Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz

in the Marktgarage or Stiftsgarage

Bundeskunsthalle ForumFriedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 53113 BonnU/S 16, 63, 66 and Bus 610, 611

Heussallee/Museumsmeile

multi-storey car-park, car and bus parking for the ‘Museum Mile’ (access via W.-Flex-Straße)

Collegium LeoninumNoeggerathstraße 34, 53111 BonnU/S/Bus

Hauptbahnhof (main station) or Stadthaus

at the building and at the main station

Halle BeuelSiegburger Straße 42 53229 Bonn-Beuel Box Office: +49(0)228 - 778407Bus 529, 538, 603, 608, 609

Schauspielhalle Beuel

Harmonie EndenichFrongasse 28–30, 53121 BonnBox Office: +49(0)228 – 61 40 42Bus 606, 607, 631

Frongasse or Brahmsstraße

Hotel KönigshofAdenauerallee 9, 53111 BonnU/S 16, 63, 66

Universität/Markt in the hotel’s underground garage

Opernhaus

Am Boeselagerhof 1, 53111 Bonn Box Office: +49(0)228 – 77 36 68Bus 600, 601, 608, 609

Opernhaus

U/S 62, 65, 66, 67 Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz

underground garage at Opernhaus

SchumannhausSebastianstraße 182, 53115 BonnBus 604, 605, 606, 607, 631

Alfred-Bucherer-Straße

Straßenbahnhalle DransdorfGerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 53121 Bonn U/S 18

Robert-Kirchhoff-Straße

Telekom ForumLandgrabenweg 151 53227 Bonn-BeuelBus 606, 607

T-Mobile

U/S 62, 65 Schießbergweg

Volksbank-HausHeinemannstraße 15, 53175 BonnBus 610, 611, 631

Volksbank-Haus

direkt am Haus

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St. Hildegard MehlemIm Meisengarten 47, 53179 BonnBus 613, 615, 857, 852

Deichmanns Aue

Train to Bahnhof (station) Mehlem

in the streets of the residential area

La RedouteKurfürstenallee 1, 53177 BonnBus 615, 637, 855

Brunnenallee

U/S 16, 63, 67 Bad Godesberg Bahnhof (station)

at the city hall and the Kurfürstenbad

R H E I N - S I E G - K R E I S

Kursaal Bad Honnef Hauptstraße 28, 53604 Bad HonnefU/S 66

Bad Honnef

underground garage of SEMINARIS Avendi Hotel (Hauptstraße 22)

Rhein-Sieg-Halle SiegburgBachstraße 1, 53721 SiegburgDB, U/S, Bus

Siegburg Bahnhof (station) (approx. 5-minute walk)

at Rhein-Sieg-Halle garage

Stadtmuseum SiegburgMarkt 46, 53721 SiegburgBox Office: +49(0)2241 – 5 57 33DB, U/S, Bus

Siegburg Bahnhof (station)

in the Mühlenstraße (P11), Rhenag (P22), and Bahnhof (station) car parks (P10)

St. EvergislusHaasbachstraße 2 53332 Bornheim-Brenig

Steigenberger Grandhotel Petersberg53639 Königswinter/PetersbergBox Office: +49(0)2223 – 740

in front of the building

O T H E R S

Burg Namedy 56626 Andernach Box Office: +49(0)2632 – 4 86 25 DB

Namedy Bahnhof (station)

in front of the castle

indicates the name of the nearest bus, tram or underground stop.

B E E T H O V E N F E S T B O N N 2 0 1 4 + + P R O G

SAT 6 SEP 11 AM OPENING MATINEE: Nike Wagner, p.16 Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stefan Blunier

8 P M OPENING CONCERT: Gautier Capuçon, p.17 London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

S U N 7 S E P 7 P M BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 1: City of p.18 Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

8 P M ‘Divan of song – Persia’: p.19 Karg, Holl, Kehring

MON 8 S E P 8 P M BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 2: City of p.20 Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

8 P M BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS 1: p.21 Borodin Quartet

T U E 9 S E P 8 P M BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 3: City of p.22 Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons


WED 1 0 S E P 8 P M BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 4: City of p.24 Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons

8 P M BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS 1: p.25 Leonidas Kavakos Violin, Enrico Pace Piano

T U E 1 1 S E P 8 P M ‘Passio – Compassio’: p.26 Ensemble Sarband, Modern String Quartet a.o.


8 P M ‘Spiritio latino’: SIGNUMfive p.28

F R I 1 2 S E P 8 P M BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS 2: p.29 Leonidas Kavakos Violin, Enrico Pace Piano

8 P M Mnozil Brass p.30

S AT 1 3 S E P 8 P M BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS 3: p.32 Leonidas Kavakos Violin, Enrico Pace Piano

8 P M Kölner Kammerorchester, Janiczek p.33

8 P M Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble p.34

S U N 1 4 S E P 1 1 AM PRIZEWINNERS’ CONCERT 1: Dartigalongue p.35

6 P M Studio musikFabrik, Peter Veale p.36


8 P M ‘Divan of song – India’: Iven, Kehring a.o. p.38

MON 1 5 S E P 8 P M PRIZEWINNERS’ CONCERT 2: Cassomenos p.39

T U E 1 6 S E P 8 P M RECITAL: Thomas Zehetmair Violin p.43

W E D 1 7 S E P 8 P M Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, p.44 Faust, Queyras, Bezuidenhout, Nézet-Séguin

T H U 1 8 S E P 8 P M Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, p.45 Nézet-Séguin

8 P M JAZZ 1: Iiro Rantala Trio p.46

FRI 19 SEP 8 P M Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Tomter, Blunier p.47

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FRI 19 SEP 8 P M ‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’ I p.48

S AT 2 0 S E P 4 P M ‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’ II p.49

8 P M Münchner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel p.51

8 P M ‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’ III p.52

8 P M Rajaton p.53

S U N 2 1 S E P 4 P M ‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’ IV p.54

6 P M ‘Solo for cult’: Singer Pur p.55

6 P M RECITAL: Sebastian Knauer Piano p.56

7 P M RECITAL: Josef Bulva Piano p.57

8 P M ‘String Quartets 1814 – 1914 – 2014’ V p.58

MON 2 2 S E P 8 P M Ensemble Resonanz p.59

T U E 2 3 S E P 8 P M CAMPUS CONCERT: Bilkent Youth p.60 Symphony Orchestra, Isın Metin a.o.

8 P M RECITAL: Herbert Schuch Piano p.61

T H U 2 5 S E P 8 P M BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTS 1: p.62 Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes

8 P M JAZZ 2: Hugh Masekela, Larry Willis p.63

F R I 2 6 S E P 8 P M ‘Baltic Voyage’: Baltic Sea Youth p.65 Philharmonic, Jan Liesicki, Kristjan Järvi

8 PM Tetzlaff Quartett p.66

8 P M Canadian Brass p.67

S AT 2 7 S E P 8 P M LIEDER EVENING: Meier, Breinl p.68

8 P M BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTS 2: p.69 Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes a.o.

SUN 2 8 S E P 1 1 A M PRIZEWINNERS’ CONCERT 3: Brauß p.70

1 1 A M Hannelore Elsner, Ensemble Carion, p.71 Sebastian Knauer

6 P M BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTS 3: p.72 Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes

6 P M Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Fidelio’ (premiere) p.73

T U E 3 0 S E P 8 P M Hannelore Elsner, Sebastian Knauer p.74

W E D 1 O C T 8 P M ‘200 Years since the Congress of Vienna’: p.75 Orchester Wiener Akademie, Zirner, Blaise, Haselböck

8 P M Jazz 3: Marialy Pacheco Trio p.76

T H U 2 O C T 8 P M Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, p.77 Lindberg

8 P M ‘Divan of song – Korea’: Young, Kehring p.78

F R I 3 O C T 6 P M FINAL CONCERT: Die Deutsche p.79 Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Volodos, Järvi

8 P M Ludwig van Beethoven: ‘Fidelio’ p.73

F R I 3 O C T – S U N 5 O C T ‘Save the World’ p.9

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Bonn

General-AnzeigerBottlerplatz 753111 Bonn+49(0)228 – 6 04 23 12

Konzertkasse KaufhofRemigiusstr. 2053111 Bonn+49(0)228 – 69 79 80

BundeskunsthalleFriedrich-Ebert-Allee 453113 Bonn+49(0)228 – 9 17 12 16

Opern- und KonzertkasseWindeckstr. 153111 Bonn+49(0)228 – 77 80 08

Bad Godesberg

General-AnzeigerKoblenzer Str. 6153177 Bonn+49(0)228 – 3 50 50

Schauspiel BonnTheaterplatz/ Am Michaelshof 953177 Bonn+49(0)228 – 77 80 22

Bad Honnef

General-AnzeigerHauptstr. 3853604 Bad Honnef+49(0)2224 – 90 20 80

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

General-AnzeigerBossardstr. 1–353474 Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler+49(0)2641 – 9 12 61

Bergisch Gladbach

Bürgerhaus Bergischer LöweKonrad-Adenauer-Platz51465 Bergisch-Gladbach+49(0)2202 – 3 89 99

Reise- und TicketshopHauptstr. 29351465 Bergisch Gladbach+49(0)2202 – 93 25 14undStraßen 5151429 Bergisch Gladbach (Herkenrath)+49(0)2204 – 9 76 64 63

Brühl

brühl-infoUhlstr. 1, 50321 Brühl+49(0)2232 – 7 95 69

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf Marketing& Tourismus GmbHImmermannstr. 65 B (Hauptbahnhof) &Marktplatz 6 (Altstadt)40210 Düsseldorf+49(0)180 – 5 64 43 32

Euskirchen

Stadtverkehr EuskirchenOststr. 1-553879 Euskirchen+49(0)2251 – 1 41 41 60

Köln

Zeitungsgruppe KölnService Center (DuMont-Carré)Breite Str. 7250667 Köln+49(0)221 – 2 24 22 92

E D I T O R I A L

I N F O R M A T I O NInternationale Beethovenfeste Bonn gGmbH Prof. Dr. Nike WagnerArtistic Director and Manager(responsible for the content)Helmut PojunkeBusiness Manager Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 3, 53113 BonnTelephone +49-228-201030, Fax [email protected], www.beethovenfest.de Editorial Staff: Dr. Annette Semrau, Dr. Tilman Schlömp, Karin Stühn, Heidi Rogge (lector)

Translation: Dr. Michael Scuffil

Graphic Design: parole Gesellschaft für Kommunikation mbH, München; www.parole.de Print: Druckerei Engelhardt, Neunkirchenwww.druckerei-engelhardt.de

Picture copyrights:We thank the artists, authors and agents for allowing us to reprint the photographs.

photocase (title); Sonja Werner (11); Heiko Laschitzki (12); Florian Becht (13); Peter Koehn (16); Sheila Rock Decca (17); Marco Borggreve (18/20/22/25/29/32/45/54); Gisela Schenker (19); Bcropped (21); Daniel Pasche (24); Michael Kneffel (26); Keith Saunders (27/37); Nadine Targiel (28); T. Bozi (30); Nico Stinghe & Park Bennett (34); Dorothee Falke (35); Klaus Rudolph (36); Christine Schneider (38); Dan Hannen (39); Keith Pattison (43); Detlev Schneider (44); Steven Haberland/Fotomontage (46); Veerle Vercauteren (47); Neda Navaee (48/58/78); Karel Soukup (49); wildundleise (51); Sussie Ahlburg (52); Markus Amon (55); Steven Haberland (56); Tobias Hase (57); Tobias Schult (59); Felix Broede (61); Oezguer Albayrak (62/69/72); Brett Rubin (63); Getty (64); Mathias Bothor (65); Alexandra Vosding (66); Steve Blackburn (67); Nomi Baumgartl (68); Monika Lawrenz (70); R. Johansen (71); Thilo Beu (73); Bernd Schroeder (74); Michael Thurm (75); Mats Baecker (77); Marc Egido (79)

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Programme information: as of Feb 26, 2014 We reserve the right to make changes.

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Theaterkasse KaufhofHohe Str. 150667 Köln+49(0)221 – 2 57 88 11

Karten und Veran staltungs-service KVSWiener Platz 2a51065 Köln+49(0)221 – 9 62 42 41

Meckenheim

Ticket & KonzertShopHauptstr. 7553340 Meckenheim+49(0)2225 – 1 48 85

Sankt Augustin

Bücherstube Sankt AugustinMarkt 2553757 Sankt Augustin+49(0)2241 – 2 86 80

Siegburg

Kartenhaus WürselenIn der Rhein-Sieg-HalleBachstr. 153721 Siegburg+49(0)2241 – 23 91 93 19

General-AnzeigerMarkt 45a53721 Siegburg+49(0)2241 – 1 20 10

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The Beethovenfest Bonn 2014 is under the patronage of the State Premier of North Rhine Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft.

At selected concerts, the Beethovenfest Bonn

reserves a certain number of seats for school and college

students (below the age of 30). These cannot

be booked in advance. At these concerts, a certain number of seats are reserved for students, tickets for which can be bought for 8 € on production of a

valid student identity card. The concerts in question are indicated in this overview with

this logo.

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