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Live at the Brandenburg Gate: Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
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Peter Eötvös and Isabelle Faust
Photo: Martin Walz
This concert is innovative, virtuosic and cosmopolitan. Conductor and composer Peter Eötvös presents his Violin Concerto No. 3, known as the Alhambra (soloist: Isabelle Faust), which musically roams the fortress of the same name in Granada. In contrast to this airy Mediterranean world are Edgard Varèse’s famous impressions Amériques from the noisy New York of the 1920s. An insider tip is Shaar by Iannis Xenakis: eerily inscrutable and ingeniously eccentric.
08 Sep 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Peter EötvösIsabelle Faust
Peter Eötvös
Alhambra, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 – commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation together with the Granada Festival, Orchestre de Paris and BBC Proms German PremièreIsabelle Faust violin
George Rochberg
Caprice Variations: No. 50 FantasyIsabelle Faust violin
Iannis Xenakis
Shaar for large String OrchestraEdgard Varèse
Amériques (1st Version from 1918−1922, revised 1997)- free
Interview
Isabelle Faust on Peter Eötvös’s Violin Concerto No. 3
Inaugural concert: Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Photo: Stephan Rabold
Finally the time has come! This evening, Kirill Petrenko will stand before the Berliner Philharmoniker as their new chief conductor for the first time. It is a spectacular season opening concert with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony whose overwhelmingly joyful finale is perfect for the festive occasion. The concert also presents – in both Beethoven’s Symphony and Berg’s expressive Lulu Suite – the soprano Marlis Petersen as Artist in Residence of the new 2019/2020 season.
23 Aug 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill PetrenkoMarlis Petersen
Alban Berg
Lulu SuiteMarlis Petersen soprano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 with Final Chorus “Ode to Joy”Marlis Petersen soprano, Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano, Benjamin Bruns tenor, Kwangchul Youn bass, Rundfunkchor Berlin choir, Gijs Leenaars chorus master
- free
Interview
Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Ludwig Quandt - free
Interview
Berg and Beethoven: an introduction by Malte Krasting - free
Interview
Dawn of a new era: Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker
Tugan Sokhiev conducts Prokofiev and Ravel at the Waldbühne
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
The Berliner Philharmoniker and conductor Tugan Sokhiev – music director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater – distinguish themselves as storytellers at this outdoor concert. We hear Prokofiev’s humorous music for the film satire Lieutenant Kijé, travel to the Orient with Maurice Ravel’s shimmering, sensuous song cycle Shéhérazade (soloist: Marianne Crebassa) and witness the most famous love story of all time in Prokofiev’s ballet music Romeo and Juliet.
29 Jun 2019
From the Berlin WaldbühneBerliner Philharmoniker
Tugan SokhievMarianne Crebassa
Sergei Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kije Suite, op. 60Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade, song cycle after Tristan KlingsorMarianne Crebassa mezzo-soprano
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, ballet, op. 64 (arranged in the form of a suite by Tugan Sokhiev)Edward Elgar
Salut d’amour, op. 12Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance in C major, op. 46 no. 1Paul Lincke
Berliner Luft
Andris Nelsons and Daniil Trifonov
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Concerto is a work that is performed with surprising infrequency. During this concert you can discover the work for yourself: its drama and passion, its boundless wealth of emotional nuances. The soloist is Daniil Trifonov, “perhaps the most exciting pianist to have emerged internationally in the last 30 years” (The Guardian). Andris Nelsons also conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, which impresses listeners with the vividness of a film score.
22 Jun 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Andris NelsonsDaniil Trifonov
Alexander Scriabin
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F sharp minor, op. 20Daniil Trifonov piano
Alexander Scriabin
Etude in C sharp minor, op. 42 no. 5Daniil Trifonov piano
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, op. 103 “The Year 1905”- free
Interview
Daniil Trifonov in conversation with Egor Egorkin
Constantinos Carydis conducts Mozart and Shostakovich
Photo: Stephan Rabold
It is always exciting to hear the expressive range that can be achieved even with a small orchestra. That is demonstrated in this concert, at which Constantinos Carydis makes his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. The programme is framed by Mozart’s Symphonies No. 34 and 38, in which tonal radiance is combined with delicate expressive nuances. We also hear works by Dimitri Shostakovich, including his Chamber Symphony op. 110a, which sensitively and movingly reflects the horror of war.
15 Jun 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Constantinos CarydisWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 34 C major, K. 338Dmitri Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony in C minor, op. 110a (orch. Barshai)Dmitri Shostakovich
Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11 (version for string orchestra)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 “Prague”
Daniel Barenboim and Maria João Pires
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
A great friend of the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrates an important anniversary: Daniel Barenboim conducted the orchestra for the first time 50 years ago. The programme of that concert can now be heard again, with works by Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann which trace the development from Viennese Classicism to the rapturous era of Romanticism. The soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is Maria João Pires.
08 Jun 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel BarenboimMaria João Pires
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 95 in C minorLudwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, op. 58Maria João Pires piano
Robert Schumann
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), op. 82: Der Vogel als Prophet (Bird as Prophet)Maria João Pires piano
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 (second version from 1851)- free
Interview
Daniel Barenboim in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud
“Late Night” between jazz and classical music with Michael Wollny and Christian Jost
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Jazz pianist and composer Michael Wollny and conductor and composer Christian Jost are two exceptional artists from seemingly opposing musical worlds who strive for a feeling of being “as spontaneous as possible”. In addition to the performance of some of Wollny’s solo pieces, the encounter with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker is the focus of this Late Night concert.
08 Jun 2019
Late Night at the PhilharmonieMembers of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Christian JostMichael Wollny
Der Wanderer · NachtfahrtenMichael Wollny
FatigueChristian Jost
Nocturnal CityMichael Wollny piano
Christian Jost
Nocturnal ForestMichael Wollny piano
Michael Wollny · Christian Jost
Engel · Der Wanderer (Reprise) · Sirenes
Michael Sanderling and Bruno Delepelaire
Joseph Haydn’s Second Cello Concerto is one of the most important works of Viennese Classicism. Its warm, melodious solo part is captivating, excitingly alternating between melancholy and cheerfulness. At this concert it is played by Bruno Delepelaire, first principal cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker. At his debut with the Philharmoniker, Michael Sanderling also conducts Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony: a nightmarishly brutal panorama of the Second World War.
01 Jun 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Michael SanderlingBruno Delepelaire
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb:2Bruno Delepelaire cello
Benjamin Britten
Cello Suite No. 1, op. 72: LamentoDmitri Shostakovich
Sympnony No. 7 in C major, op. 60 “Leningrad”- free
Interview
Bruno Delepelaire in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud - free
Interview
Michael Sanderling in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud
Paavo Järvi conducts Berg and Bruckner
Photo: Stephan Rabold
In this concert with Paavo Järvi, we experience sensuously delicate tonal beauty, composed by two pioneers of Modernism. Anton Webern’s richly coloured arrangement of a ricercare by Bach is followed by Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs (soloist: Mojca Erdmann), which capture the tender mood of young love. Bruckner’s Second Symphony concludes the programme – an early work which already has unmistakable Brucknerian power.
25 May 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Paavo JärviMojca Erdmann
Johann Sebastian Bach
Musical Offering, BWV 1079: No. 2 Ricercar a 6 (arranged by Anton Webern)Alban Berg
Seven Early Songs (version for soprano and orchestra)Mojca Erdmann soprano
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 2 in C minor (2nd version from 1877)- free
Interview
Paavo Järvi in conversation with Gunars Upatnieks
