Martijn Padding has done something special with Beethoven's 10th. He turned the piece that the deaf composer never really wrote in its entirety into an experience that, as Volkskrant reviewer Frits van der Waa put it, made you feel
How it sounded between Beethoven's ears.
According to the NRC, it sounded
Impressive: the atmosphere of creation, stripped of all heroism, as if through two centuries of dense fog, you discern the outline of a great but lonely and deaf composer.
That it sounded a bit woolly described ...
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