This season, Cal Performances celebrates the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Join us for concerts including Jonathan Biss, piano; the Danish String Quartet; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello and Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; and more!
Beethoven 250: The Concerts
As part of Cal Performances 2019-20 season, we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. The concerts included:
Jonathan Biss, piano
The Complete Piano Sonatas
All performances in Hertz Hall
September 21 at 8pm
Sonatas Nos. 1, 9, 13 (Quasi una fantasia), 12 (Funeral March), 21 (Waldstein)
September 22 at 3pm
Sonatas Nos. 4, 17 (Tempest), 5, 23 (Appassionata)
October 12 at 8pm
Sonatas Nos. 15 (Pastoral), 20, 3, 27, 28
October 13 at 3pm
Sonatas Nos. 6, 10, 18 (The Hunt), 29 (Hammerklavier)
December 15 at 3pm
Sonatas Nos. 25 (Cuckoo), 11, 14 (Moonlight), 24 (À Thérèse), 30
March 7 at 8pm
Sonatas Nos. 19, 16, 7, 2, 31
March 8 at 3pm
Sonatas Nos. 8 (Pathétique), 22, 26 (Les adieux), 32
Additional Recitals and Orchestral Concerts
Danish String Quartet
November 10 at 3pm, Hertz Hall
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
David Finckel, cello and Wu Han, piano
November 24 at 3pm, Hertz Hall
Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello and Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
December 4 at 8pm, Zellerbach Hall
12 Variations on Mozart’s “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen,” Op. 66
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor
January 26 at 3pm, Zellerbach Hall
Overture to Egmont
Rotterdam Philharmonic
Lahav Shani, conductor and Nelson Freire, piano
March 22 at 3pm, Zellerbach Hall
Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
Further Reading
Beethoven’s Shadow
by Jonathan Biss
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Political Beethoven
by Prof. Nicolas Mathew, UC Berkeley Dept of Music
(speaker at pre-performance talks before Sunday matinee recitals: Sep 22, Oct 13, Dec 15, Mar 8)
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