Who can resist the classic Beatles compositions, those unique melodies by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, sometimes also by George Harrison, which Leonard Bernstein praised as the “most exciting music since Beethoven”? Shortly after the Beatles’ breakthrough in 1963, arrangers, orchestra leaders, singers of almost every musical hue began to rework the Beatles material for themselves and to make it experienceable in a new way in practically every musical style. In the 1960s, arrangements of Beatles numbers within the stylistic spectrum of Latin jazz were very popular in jazz circles. Götz Alsmann, who had not even started school when the Beatles’ career began, has taken on the task of bringing together their immortal songs and the most diverse Latin American rhythms once again in this programme conceived especially for the Ruhr Piano Festival. For him, this closes a very special circle, as he explored the mysterious world of harmony and song structures on the basis of Beatles songs even as a boy.