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What the papers say: the music is fine, as usual on #hf10

 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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Wijbrand Schaap

Cultural journalist since 1996. Worked as theatre critic, columnist and reporter for Algemeen Dagblad, Utrechts Nieuwsblad, Rotterdams Dagblad, Parool and regional newspapers through Associated Press Services. Interviews for TheaterMaker, Theatererkrant Magazine, Ons Erfdeel, Boekman. Podcast maker, likes to experiment with new media. Culture Press is called the brainchild I gave birth to in 2009. Life partner of Suzanne Brink roommate of Edje, Fonzie and Rufus. Search and find me on Mastodon.View Author posts

 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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