Conference programme

 1 December

Levin Hall

 

1345: Conference registration and coffee

 

1400: Welcome by Tor Espen Aspaas

 

1415: Jonathan Del Mar: Interpretive choices in Beethoven and some other minor questions

 

1500: Round table discussion on the Bärenreiter edition of the Beethoven Violin concerto

with Jonathan Del Mar, Detlef Hahn, Douglas Woodfull-Harris, Andrew Manze.

 

1600: Break

 

1630: Kristin Fossheim & Bjørn Solum: (The Norwegian Academy of Music)

Sonata for pianoforte and cello in G minor, Opus 5 No. 2

 

1700: Neal Peres Da Costa: (Sydney Conservatorium of Music University of Sydney)

Expressive arpeggio playing in Beethoven’s Grande Sonate pathétique

Op. 13; evidence preserved in the edition of Cipriani Potter (1854)

 

1730: Leonardo Miucci: (The Royal Conservatory of The Hague)

Beethoven’s piano sonatas: the editions by I. Moscheles.

 

December 2, venue: Levin Hall

 

1000: Coffee

 

1015: Wolfgang Plagge: (The Norwegian Academy of Music)

”Ludwig van Beethoven’s cadenzas to his own piano concertos

– what do they tell us in terms of form and context, and do they hint to improvisational habits?”

 

1100: Andrew Manze: (The Norwegian Academy of Music)

“Monstrous avalanches”: thoughts on cadenzas and tempo in Beethoven’s violin concerto.

 

1130: Daniel Herscovitch: (The University of Sydney)

Ornamentation in Beethoven: A New Perspective

 

1200:Christina Bratterud: (The Norwegian Academy of Music)

Moods of E-flat: Excerpts from solo piano sonatas of Schubert and Beethoven

 

 

1230: Break

 

1330: Ingemar Fridell: (Malmö Academy of Music/Lund University)

Visual tools facilitating the interpretation of classical piano compositions

 

1430: Olaf Eggestad: (The Norwegian Academy of Music)

Verging on what’s not there. Revisiting the musically sublime via incommunserability,

“Durchbruch” and liminality in Beethoven’s late style

 

1500: Break

 

1530: Open orchestra rehearsal in Lindeman Hall: full performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, introduced and conducted by Andrew Manze. Bjarne Magnus Jensen, soloist with the NAoM symphony orchestra.

 

1645: Thomas D. Svatos: (Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus)

“Bohuslav Martinů’s essay on Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony”

 

1715: Conclusions and new perspectives by Erlend Hovland

 

1730: Break

 

1800: Kristin Fossheim & Bjørn Solum: (The Norwegian Academy of Music)

Sonata for pianoforte and cello in C major, Opus 102 No. 1