Beethoven Radio and TV Experience June 2005
"The Beethoven Experience" starts at 9am, June 5th, on BBC Radio 3 and goes on - night and day with no ad breaks - until the following Friday.
As well as this, there will be many TV programmes dealing with our mutual friend.
I have pasted in the list from the BBC Press Release:
Beethoven season - including BBC Radio 3's The Beethoven Experience
Beethoven - BBC TWO, June
Award-winning actor Paul Rhys stars as Beethoven in a major new three-part drama-documentary series on the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven, presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood.
Beethoven Uncovered - BBC FOUR, June
Three rehearsal/performance programmes taking some of Beethoven's key works featured in the BBC TWO series and analysing them in more detail.
Charles Hazlewood conducts a period orchestra formed especially for the series.
Each programme focuses on a different piece and in it he takes the orchestra through a tight rehearsal period and then conducts a complete performance of the work.
Within the rehearsal period Charles talks directly to the television audience explaining the structure of the music and demystifying the complex language of classical music.
Barenboim On Beethoven - BBC FOUR
In January 2005, the great pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim gave a series of masterclasses in front of cameras on Beethoven Piano Sonatas in Symphony Hall, Chicago, USA.
He was coaching young professional soloists already with international careers.
The exceptional pianists taking part in the programme are: Lang Lang, David Kadouch, Shai Wosner and Jonathan Biss.
In the programme, Barenboim takes each player through their chosen Sonata movement, illustrating the importance of structure and the relationships between tempo, harmony and dynamics.
Beethoven's Hair - BBC TWO
Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death.
The film begins in modern times when a pair of Beethoven enthusiasts, named Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchase the hair at a Sotheby's auction.
The story unfolds tracing the past generations of owners, culminating in the futuristic science that reveals Beethoven's 'medical secret'.
Based on Russell Martin's best-selling book and set to a lush score, this is the story of characters separated by time and place, whose only connection is an unlikely relic that touched each of their lives - Beethoven's hair.
Along the way, this film sheds new light upon the cause of Beethoven's various maladies, including his deafness, as well as accounting for his volatile personality and perhaps even the nature of his great art.
Michael
As well as this, there will be many TV programmes dealing with our mutual friend.
I have pasted in the list from the BBC Press Release:
Beethoven season - including BBC Radio 3's The Beethoven Experience
Beethoven - BBC TWO, June
Award-winning actor Paul Rhys stars as Beethoven in a major new three-part drama-documentary series on the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven, presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood.
Beethoven Uncovered - BBC FOUR, June
Three rehearsal/performance programmes taking some of Beethoven's key works featured in the BBC TWO series and analysing them in more detail.
Charles Hazlewood conducts a period orchestra formed especially for the series.
Each programme focuses on a different piece and in it he takes the orchestra through a tight rehearsal period and then conducts a complete performance of the work.
Within the rehearsal period Charles talks directly to the television audience explaining the structure of the music and demystifying the complex language of classical music.
Barenboim On Beethoven - BBC FOUR
In January 2005, the great pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim gave a series of masterclasses in front of cameras on Beethoven Piano Sonatas in Symphony Hall, Chicago, USA.
He was coaching young professional soloists already with international careers.
The exceptional pianists taking part in the programme are: Lang Lang, David Kadouch, Shai Wosner and Jonathan Biss.
In the programme, Barenboim takes each player through their chosen Sonata movement, illustrating the importance of structure and the relationships between tempo, harmony and dynamics.
Beethoven's Hair - BBC TWO
Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death.
The film begins in modern times when a pair of Beethoven enthusiasts, named Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchase the hair at a Sotheby's auction.
The story unfolds tracing the past generations of owners, culminating in the futuristic science that reveals Beethoven's 'medical secret'.
Based on Russell Martin's best-selling book and set to a lush score, this is the story of characters separated by time and place, whose only connection is an unlikely relic that touched each of their lives - Beethoven's hair.
Along the way, this film sheds new light upon the cause of Beethoven's various maladies, including his deafness, as well as accounting for his volatile personality and perhaps even the nature of his great art.
Michael
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