Our latest 7 concerts:

• Tugan Sokhiev and Yefim Bronfman perform Beethoven

  

  Photo: Stephan Rabold

  Tugan Sokhiev, chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, conducts two of the most popular works of the Russian repertoire at this concert, which opens with Prokofiev’s ardent Symphony No. 1, inspired by the First Viennese School. In contrast, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition depicts Russian scenes and legends with incomparable atmospheric and musical intensity. The soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 is Yefim Bronfman.

  12 May 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Tugan Sokhiev

  Yefim Bronfman

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25 Symphonie classique

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C minor, op. 37

    Yefim Bronfman piano

  • Robert Schumann
    Arabesque in C major, op. 18

    Yefim Bronfman piano

  • Modest Mussorgsky
    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel)

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    Interview
    Tugan Sokhiev in conversation with Amihai Grosz

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• Paavo Järvi and Lisa Batiashvili with Sibelius’s Violin Concerto

  

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  “The first notes of Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto rarely shine simultaneously as clearly and as focused as with Lisa Batiashvili,” was what Bayerischer Rundfunk said in its review. The Georgian violinist, who in this concert stands in for the indisposed Janine Jansen, presents the darkly timbred work, whose free, rhapsodic form requires most creative of skills. Paavo Järvi also conducts Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, which reflects the horrors of the Stalin era with brooding resignation and grotesque savagery.

  06 May 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Paavo Järvi

  Lisa Batiashvili

  • Jean Sibelius
    Night Ride and Sunrise, Symphonic Poem, op. 55

  • Jean Sibelius
    Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47

    Lisa Batiashvili violin

  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54

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    Interview
    Paavo Järvi in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud

  Paavo Järvi and Lisa Batiashvili with Sibelius’s Violin Concerto Go to concert

• Alan Gilbert and Wenzel Fuchs with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

  

  Mozart was a great fan of the then still new clarinet. He composed a splendid concerto, his last work in that genre, for this instrument, whose tone closely resembles the sound of the human voice. The performers in this concert are Alan Gilbert and the Berliner Philharmoniker’s principal clarinet Wenzel Fuchs. The programme also includes Thomas Ades’s highly original Three Studies from Couperin and Debussy’s shimmering Images pour orchestra.

  27 Apr 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Alan Gilbert

  Wenzel Fuchs

  • Thomas Adès
    Three Studies from Couperin

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K. 622

    Wenzel Fuchs clarinet

  • Claude Debussy
    Images pour orchestre

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    Interview
    Wenzel Fuchs in conversation with Daishin Kashimoto

  Alan Gilbert and Wenzel Fuchs with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto Go to concert

• A Mozart evening with Daniel Harding

  

  Mozart’s C minor Mass is one of the most beautiful works of sacred music ever composed. Choruses of archaic power strikingly alternate with graceful solos, which are perhaps so inspired because Mozart wrote one of the soprano parts for his wife Constanze. Conductor Daniel Harding devotes the rest of the concert to the secular Mozart with the brief, exuberant Symphony No. 32 and two expressive concert arias.

  21 Apr 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Daniel Harding

  Andrew Staples, Georg Zeppenfeld, Lucy Crowe, Olivia Vermeulen

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Symphony No. 32 in G major, K. 318

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Misero! O sogno – Aura, che intorno spiri, Recitative and Aria for Tenor and Orchestra, K. 431

    Andrew Staples tenor

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Per questa bella mano, Aria for Bass, Double Bass obbligato and Orchestra, K. 612

    Georg Zeppenfeld bass

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Mass in C minor, K. 427

    Lucy Crowe soprano, Olivia Vermeulen mezzo-soprano, Andrew Staples tenor, Georg Zeppenfeld bass, Swedish Radio Choir, Sam Evans chorus master

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    Interview
    Daniel Harding in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley

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• Kirill Petrenko and Yuja Wang

  

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor designate of the Berliner Philharmoniker, presents two sonorous rarities: Paul Dukas’s iridescent tone poem La Péri and Franz Schmidt’s Fourth Symphony. The latter is a gently flowing work in the tradition of Anton Bruckner with a powerful funeral march as the highlight. Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, on the other hand, played here by Yuja Wang, is a cheerful and virtuoso work.

  13 Apr 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Kirill Petrenko

  Yuja Wang

  • Paul Dukas
    La Péri, Poème dansé

  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C major, op. 26

    Yuja Wang piano

  • Franz Schmidt
    Symphony No. 4 in C major

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    Interview
    Yuja Wang in conversation with Andreas Ottensamer

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    Interview
    Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Knut Weber

  Kirill Petrenko and Yuja Wang Go to concert

• Britten’s “War Requiem” with the National Youth Orchestra of Germany

  

  The National Youth Orchestra of Germany, whose patron the Berliner Philharmoniker became in 2013, consists of highly gifted young musicians between the ages of 14 and 19. In this concert, the orchestra, together with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, presents Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem – a powerful, poignant plea for international understanding which in this performance is expressed by soloists and choirs from Germany, England, France, Poland and Belgium.

  10 Apr 2018

  Bundesjugendorchester
  Thomas Neuhoff

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    Benjamin Britten
    War Requiem for Soloists, large Choir, Children’s Choir, large Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra

    Banu Böke soprano, James Gilchrist tenor, Erik Sohn baritone, Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Chor des Bach-Vereins Köln e.V., Polski Narodowy Chór Młodzieżowy, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny chorus master, Coventry Cathedral Girls’ Choir, Kerry Beaumont chorus master, Les Pastoureaux, Philippe Favette chorus master, Jugendchor der Lukaskirche Bonn, Thomas Neuhoff chorus master, Daniel Spaw

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• Simon Rattle conducts “Parsifal”

  

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  Richard Wagner called his Parsifal a “A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage”, and in fact the term opera would be quite inappropriate. It does not deal with intrigues or romantic entanglements but with Wagner’s central metaphysical preoccupation of redemption, for which he wrote scintillating, intoxicating music of incomparable allure. Simon Rattle conducts the work with an outstanding cast of singers, including Stuart Skelton and Nina Stemme.

  08 Apr 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Stuart Skelton, Nina Stemme, Franz-Josef Selig, Evgeny Nikitin, Reinhard Hagen, Gerald Finley

  • Richard Wagner
    Parsifal

    Stuart Skelton tenor (Parsifal), Nina Stemme soprano (Kundry), Franz-Josef Selig bass baritone (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin bass baritone (Klingsor), Reinhard Hagen bass (Titurel), Gerald Finley bass baritone (Amfortas), Iwona Sobotka soprano (Flowermaiden), Kiandra Howarth soprano (Flowermaiden), Elisabeth Jansson mezzo-soprano (Flowermaiden), Mari Eriksmoen soprano (Flowermaiden), Ingeborg Gillebo mezzo-soprano (Flowermaiden), Kismara Pessatti mezzo-soprano (Flowermaiden), Neal Cooper tenor (Esquire 3, Grail Knight 1), Guido Jentjens bass (Grail Knight 2), Iurie Ciobanu tenor (Esquire 4), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey chorus master

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    Interview
    Sir Simon Rattle in conversation with Sarah Willis

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