„About Beethoven – Roaring Silence“

Concert with violin, cello, piano & reading
An actor reads letters, memories from – about – of Beethoven

A fortissimo-accord and three piano-strings are destroyed. The first orchestra-interlude in his forth piano-concert and two chandeliers shoot through the air. A heated verbal exchange in a restaurant and the plate with its goulash lands in the waiter’s face. No, it is not about a rockstar, nor a rowdy or a brute. Beethoven ‚himself’ is behind all this. The list of his exceptional actions is ludicrous…

Is this how a character expresses himself? Is it the panic of his inner narrowness? Of the more and more haunting silence in his ears? And: Is someone like this even able to love? What is it based on when in his letters to his „undying beloved one“, bursts out of him so fiery-love-stricken: „My angel, my everything, my me“?

We break deeper into the roaring silence of Beethoven. We literally feel how he pours buckets full of water over his head until even his neighbour living underneath him receives an involuntary shower. „About Beethoven“ guides through letters, recordings and memories from, to and about Beethoven and his music into the titan’s contradicting universe.

Sound examples from the Beethoven-CD

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano op.5 Nr. 1 – 2. movement
Artists: Friedrich Kleinhapl, Cello – Andreas Woyke, Piano
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano op.69 Nr. 2 – 3. movement
Artists: Friedrich Kleinhapl, Cello – Andreas Woyke, Piano
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano op.96 Nr. 3 – 2. movement
Artists: Friedrich Kleinhapl, Cello – Andreas Woyke, Piano
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Künstler

Fritz Kircher, Violin
Friedrich Kleinhapl, Cello
Andreas Woyke, Piano
Wolfram Berger o.a., Reciter

Heidrun Maya Hagn, Text-Arrangement

Duration

80 Minutes (can be kept shorter by request)

Program

Cello-Sonatas and Piano-Trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, letters from – about – to Beethoven

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