Season opening 2025: Kirill Petrenko conducts Brahms, Zimmermann and Schumann
Johannes Brahms struggled for a long time with his First Symphony – only to produce a work that made him the leading symphonist of his time: dark and yet full of introspection, it is considered the very embodiment of the late Romantic symphony. With this work, Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker open the new season. It is preceded by Robert Schumann’s impassioned Manfred Overture. The highly virtuosic Oboe Concerto by Bernd Alois Zimmermann with soloist Albrecht Mayer provides a counterpoint.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko
Albrecht Mayer
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