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The Beethoven Festival 2014 in Warsaw
Founder Elżbieta Penderecka chose Beethoven and the ideal of freedom as a theme for this new edition, using the anniversary of the Fidelio’s composition as a backdrop. For almost two weeks, there were daily concerts at the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and at the royal castle, with operas, symphonic concerts and chamber music recitals. The 2014 edition also hosted the yearly gala of the International Classical Music Awards. As for the guest orchestras, the festival made a real spread by having the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit received a prize for his entire career, and he led his London musicians for a prestige concert. After opening with an elegant rendition of Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus, the conductor accompanied Arabella Steinbach for Sergei Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2. The violinist offered a classic reading of that piece, maybe a bit too classic, especially in the first […]
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