Thomas Blondelle & the Ryelandt Trio, Love, Ludwig

Tenor Thomas Blondelle and the Ryelandt Trio go in search of the romantic in Ludwig van Beethoven. Short loves, lifelong adorations, rejections, and stormy infatuations: his letters show a human of flesh and blood, for whom a happy love life was not self-evident. Who did he call ‘Mijn Engel, my everything, my me’? Who was his ‘unsterbliche Geliebte‘? And who was the mysterious ‘Elise’? For this program, the Bruges musicians made a selection from songs, letters, and chamber music by Beethoven, who died 200 years ago. Thomas Blondelle crawls into the skin of Ludwig and sings himself through his amorous life path. Thomas Blondelle | tenor (2nd prize Queen Elisabeth Competition) Ryelandt Trio | Pieter-Jan Verhoyen (piano), Jeroen De Beer (violin) Pieter-Jan De Smet (cello) Mien Bogaert | direction