An online Beethovenathon: all nine symphonies across Europe in one day

By Alexander Hall, 07 June 2021

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“the Choral rang out in front of Vienna’s Schloss Belvedere... fountains illuminated in the gloaming”

Reviewed at Unknown Venue, Unknown on 6 June 2021

Beethoven, Symphony no. 1 in C major, Op.21

Beethoven, Leonore Overture no. 3, Op.72b

Beethoven, Symphony no. 2 in D major, Op.36

Beethoven, Coriolan Overture, Op.62

Beethoven, Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55

Beethoven, Symphony no. 4 in B flat major, Op.60

Beethoven, Egmont, Op.84: Overture

Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67

Beethoven, Fidelio, Op.72: Overture

Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral", Op.68

Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92

Beethoven, Symphony no. 8 in F major, Op.93

Beethoven, Romance for Violin and Orchestra no. 2 in F major, Op.50

Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Daniel Harding, Conductor

National Symphony Orchestra Ireland

Jaime Martín, Conductor

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Collon, Conductor

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg

Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Steven Mercurio, Conductor

I Barocchisti

Diego Fasolis, Conductor

musicAeterna

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor

Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

Charlotte Juillard, Violin

Marko Letonja, Conductor

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Camilla Nylund, Soprano

Patricia Nolz, Mezzo-soprano

Piotr Beczała, Tenor

Ryan Speedo Green, Bass

Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien

Johannes Prinz, Choirmaster / chorus director

Karina Canellakis, Conductor

Patterns in motion: Sasha Waltz & Guests dance Riley’s In C

Marat Ingeldeev, 29th April

An evening of thrilling choreography and seamless synergy between dance and music, as Sasha Waltz & Guests and the London Sinfonietta bring Terry Riley’s legendary In C to life.

****1

Back to modernity: Sasha Waltz’s Sacre

Katja Vaghi, 27th June

Fil rouge modernity for Sasha Waltz & Guests triple bill Sacre at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

****1

Sasha Waltz and Guests' Rauschen premieres at the Volksbühne

Katja Vaghi, 7th March

Only a couple of months after the reprise of Körper and Kreatur, Rauschen, Sasha Waltz' & Guests' new marathon of images, talks of robots, confessions of violence and archaic tribes.

****1

Sasha Waltz’s Kreatur at the Radialsystem

Katja Vaghi, 19th December

After a long break from creations solely for dance, Sasha Waltz’s Kreatur is a step into a new aesthetic direction presenting the body as a living unit of microcells and anatomical fragments at the Radialsystem

****1

No body left behind: Sasha Waltz & Guest and Hans Peter Kuhn Körper

Katja Vaghi, 6th December

A mesmerising catalogue of the body’s uses and abuses in our society, Sasha Waltz & Guest presents Körper an old-time favourite at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

*****

Celebrating 25 years of creative vortex

Katja Vaghi, 7th April

Anniversaries are best celebrated with friends: Sasha Waltz & Guests’ “dialogue – wirbel: improvisationen” is a magical celebration of 25 years of Waltz’ unique universe at the Radialsystem in Berlin

****1

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Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall divides his time between London and Hamburg, where he had a career in academic administration and teaching. He reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Today, and has also reviewed for Classical Source. A connoisseur of the great orchestras of the world, his musical memories stretch back to Karajan/Berlin Phil, Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil, Bernstein/Vienna Phil, and he has seen most of the great conductors from the past, including Böhm, Klemperer, Kubelik, Ormandy and Szell.