Digital Film Screening
The Beethoven Project
LUDWIG VAN: A cinematic celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday
A digital film series by Goethe Pop Up Kansas City
Our Digital Film Haus is celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a series featuring various documentaries about LUDWIG VAN. Each film focuses on a different aspect of the composer’s work and life to explore influences and interpretations of his unforgettable music.
The Beethoven Project
By Christian Berger
Germany, 2009
109 min.
German, English
The performance and audiovisual recording of all nine Beethoven symphonies within four days at the 2009 Beethoven Festival in Bonn was a staggering achievement. Grammy Award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi led the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in this singular project that also gave birth to a documentary and a "making of". Inspired by historical performance practice, Järvi gives a thoroughly radical, new, and thrilling reading of these familiar works with an ensemble playing on modern and historical instruments.
Please send an email to info-kansascity@goethe.de for the Vimeo link and the temporary password.