The innovative Beethoven cycle format featuring sonata, concerto, and symphony enters the second round, which focuses on a moment of crisis in Beethoven’s life: the time of his Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he even expressed suicidal thoughts.
Sun. 13.9.2026
11:00, Beethovenhalle, Great Hall
Kit Armstrong & Le Concert Olympique II
- Orchestra, Piano
- € 69 / 59 / 49 / 39 / 29 / 19
Contributors
- Le Concert Olympique
- Kit Armstrong piano
- Jan Caeyers conductor
Programme
»Beethoven Cycle: Crisis and Renewal«
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 from The Well-Tempered Clavier vol. II
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, op. 15
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, op. 31/2 »The Tempest«
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 36
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Opening hours: 14:00–19:30
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- 14:30 children’s concert: Songs with Krümelmucke
- 15:30–17:30 childcare available
- 16:00–17:30 Art workshop by Artefact (for children)
- 16:00–16:45 & 17:00–17:45 Workshop Make Music Together (for children & parents)
Description
Around 1802, Beethoven almost fell into despair about his progressive deafness – and yet found the strength to set out into new artistic territory. The second part of the Beethoven cycle features a meeting of the »Tempest« Sonata, Piano Concerto No. 1, and Symphony No. 2. Belgian Beethoven conductor and researcher Jan Caeyers, his orchestra Le Concert Olympique, and Kit Armstrong let us experience this time of crisis in the composer’s life.