Video specials
10th anniversary of the education programme
View video detailsMusic with young people that is as much fun for the performers as the audience was the hallmark of the legendary dance projects of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s education programme. Future projects will be in the same vein, with a focus on work with youth choirs. Just what electricity there can be between the Berliner Philharmoniker, young amateur singers and audience in a vocal performance was demonstrated in this 10th anniversary concert conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, which included Benjamin Britten’s children’s opera Noye’s Fludde.free
School Orchestra Extravaganza 2013
View video detailsThe School Orchestra Extravaganzas of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s education programme are always a big event, and this year’s meeting in February was no different. Six Berlin school orchestras had rehearsed excerpts from Grieg’s Peer Gynt suites for the big day under the guidance of members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the conductor of the public performance in the Philharmonie was none other than Sir Simon Rattle.free
“Merry ChRHYTHMas”
View video detailsWe are celebrating Christmas! The percussionists of the Berliner Philharmoniker show just what their instruments are capable of in our family concert. This extraordinary Christmas gala for music fans of all ages is presented by horn player Sarah Willis. You can watch this live broadcast free of charge!free
Dance project “Carmen”
View video detailsFew choreographers have had a greater influence on modern dance theatre than Sasha Waltz. All the greater then was the response when she was involved in the annual Education Dance Project of the Berliner Philharmoniker. The theme was Bizet’s Carmen in the version by Rodion Shchedrin. You can now watch a recording of the performance in the Digital Concert Hall, free of charge.free.jpg)
Family concert
View video detailsThis free family concert from our Education Programme includes nothing less than a musical trip around the world. Together with the Brass Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker, you can roam countries near and far, from Austria to Japan, from Argentina to the United States. In each country there are characteristic sounds and melodies, arranged and composed by Sándor Balogh.free
Family concert
View video detailsFiery, funny, jazzy and sometimes uncontrollably emotional: this is how the 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker play their way through the world’s musical repertoire. They now present themselves in a family concert. You can watch it live and free of charge in the Digital Concert Hall.free
Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel”
View video detailsIt is fairytale time at the Philharmonie! Horn player and presenter Klaus Wallendorf welcomes “children and former children” to Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hänsel und Gretel, which he carefully abridged and supplied rhyming texts to connect the musical elements. The Berliner Philharmoniker and an outstanding ensemble of singers perform under the baton of Mark Elder.free
Highlights from the “Meet the Orchestra” series
View video details“Meet the Orchestra” – under this motto, the education programme of the Berliner Philharmoniker invited music lovers of all ages to the Philharmonie between 2006–2008. This film shows some of the highlights from these concerts.free
Family Concert “Autumn Sounds”
View video detailsAlmost everyone knows Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and can hum along to the melodies of this cycle. But who knows exactly what scenes and stories the composer has depicted in these violin concertos? At the Family Concert of the Education Programme of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the examples of Autumn and Winter revealed the wealth of detail hidden in the score.free
Dance project: “Season’s Whims”
View video detailsRameau’s music is more than just Baroque gracefulness, it’s also full of exciting expressiveness and variety – perfect for a student ballet, as the Berliner Philharmoniker showed in their annual dance project. The recording of this unusual Rameau interpretation is now available free of charge to registered users of the Digital Concert Hall.free
“The Gruffalo” puppet show
View video detailsIt does not often happen that a children’s book becomes an international bestseller, but The Gruffalo is such a case. The Berliner Philharmoniker now present the story of the lumbering monster and the cunning little mouse in a charming new adaptation: as a puppet show with live music.free
Dance project: Surrogate Cities
View video detailsThe city, with its vibrant energy and its dangers, has always fascinated artists of all disciplines. One of the most exciting musical representations on this theme is Heiner Goebbels’s 1994 piece Surrogate Cities. In February 2008, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle presented this composition as a multifaceted dance project.free
The Heath Hare Song Contest
View video detailsWhat does it sound like when hares and rabbits hold a singing competition? The Berliner Philharmoniker provide the answer in the children’s opera Of Hares and Hedgehogs – free of charge.free
The “Nutcracker” for children
View video detailsNine woodwind along with a celesta and a double bass are all the Berliner Philharmoniker need to capture the essence of the most beautiful pieces from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. Horn player Sarah Willis, who was the concert’s presenter, didn’t only explain what happens in the ballet, but also demonstrated the special qualities of the various wind instruments in a symphony orchestra.free
Piano Extravaganza
View video detailsLang Lang in rehearsal with 100 piano students.
Chinese star pianist Lang Lang showed just how down-to-earth he still is when he came to the Philharmonie in Berlin in May 2010: He held a workshop where he worked with no less than 100 piano students on Schubert’s Marche militaire No. 1 – relaxed and entertaining, but still with full concentration.
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Dance project “Swing Symphony”
View video detailsThey are now regular highlights of the Berliner Philharmoniker season – but still always fresh and surprising: the dance projects of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Education Programme. For 2010, the orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle came up with something very special: a joint performance with the legendary trumpet player Wynton Marsalis. Registered users of the Digital Concert Hall can now watch a recording of this dance project which involved 170 school children from Berlin free of charge.free
School Orchestra Extravaganza
View video detailsWhat young musician doesn’t dream of working together one day with a world famous conductor? This dream regularly becomes reality at the Berliner Philharmoniker’s School Orchestra Extravaganza, when Berlin school students rehearse great works of the orchestral repertoire with Sir Simon Rattle. You can now watch a recording of one of these rehearsals in the Digital Concert Hall – for free!
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