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The Berlin Phil Series: “Vive la France!”
Photo: Sebastian Hänel
In a new concert series in which members of the Berliner Philharmoniker perform chamber music in the Digital Concert Hall, Emmanuel Pahud, Amihai Grosz and Marie-Pierre Langlamet start things off with French music from Rameau to Debussy for flute, viola and harp. In this way, the musicians will be able to maintain contact with each other and with their audiences even during the time of the corona crisis. The programme closes with a recording from 2009 of Debussy’s composition La Mer, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of their former chief conductor Claudio Abbado.
18 Apr 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
The Berlin Phil Series: “Vive la France!”
Emmanuel Pahud flute, Amihai Grosz viola, Marie-Pierre Langlamet harp
Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 4
Photo: Heribert Schindler
The finale of the Easter@Philharmonie Festival is dedicated entirely to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose works were to be the focus of the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden which was cancelled due to the corona crisis. In addition to newly recorded chamber music works, the programme includes excerpts from Berliner Philharmoniker concerts conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim plus the chief conductors Claudio Abbado and Sir Simon Rattle. The online festival closes with a performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony with their successor Kirill Petrenko.
13 Apr 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
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Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 4 “Finale with Beethoven”
Claudio Abbado conductor, Daniel Barenboim conductor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductor, Zubin Mehta conductor, Kirill Petrenko conductor, Sir Simon Rattle conductor, Wenzel Fuchs clarinet, Christoph Hartmann oboe, Thomas Leyendecker trombone, Albrecht Mayer oboe, Olaf Ott trombone, Stefan Schweigert bassoon, Dominik Wollenweber cor anglais, Sarah Willis presenter
Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 3
Photo: Heribert Schindler
With the third instalment of the Easter@Philharmonie Festival, the Berliner Philharmoniker would again like to keep in touch with its audience during the concert-free period. Herbert Blomstedt and Tugan Sokhiev, who were originally to appear at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, are the conductors in archive videos – including a complete recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. And two first concertmasters and brass players of the orchestra play chamber music in the Philharmonie especially for the festival.
11 Apr 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
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Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 3 “Herbert Blomstedt and Tugan Sokhiev”
Herbert Blomstedt conductor, Tugan Sokhiev conductor, Leif Ove Andsnes piano, Noah Bendix-Balgley violin, Stefan Dohr horn, Hélène Grimaud piano, Daishin Kashimoto violin, Stefan de Leval Jezierski horn, Kyoungmin Park viola, Sarah Willis horn and presenter, Dorian Xhoxhi violin
Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 2
Photo: Heribert Schindler
The second episode of our Easter@Philharmonie festival is dedicated entirely to the music of Gustav Mahler. Excerpts from Mahler performances under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel and Andris Nelsons are on the programme, as is an appearance by soprano Anna Prohaska in the Philharmonie. Other guests are the baritone Christian Gerhaher and principal horn player Stefan Dohr. Finally, we hear the monumental finale from Mahler’s Sixth Symphony under the direction of chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.
08 Apr 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
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Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 2 “The world of Gustav Mahler”
Gustavo Dudamel conductor, Andris Nelsons conductor, Kirill Petrenko conductor, Sir Simon Rattle conductor, Lorenzo Viotti conductor, Elīna Garanča mezzo-soprano, Christian Gerhaher baritone, Matan Porat piano, Anna Prohaska soprano, Sarah Willis presenter
Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 1
Photo: Heribert Schindler
The Philharmonie Berlin is closed, and our Easter Festival in Baden-Baden cannot take place either. So we have come up with something for you: the digital Easter@Philharmonie Festival! The first episode is about the history of the Easter Festival, with current and historic recordings. Plus, there is chamber music, performed especially for this occasion in an empty Philharmonie. The finale is a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with Kirill Petrenko.
04 Apr 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
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Easter@Philharmonie Festival: Episode 1
Sir Simon Rattle conductor, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Claudio Abbado conductor, Kirill Petrenko conductor, Gundula Janowitz soprano, Marie-Pierre Langlamet harp, Martin Löhr cello, Albrecht Mayer oboe, Sarah Willis presenter
Simon Rattle conducts Berio and Bartók
Photo: Stephan Rabold
To help contain the coronavirus, the Philharmonie has been closed since 11 March. A last concert under the direction of Simon Rattle could still be given – but without an audience in the auditorium, exclusively and free of charge for visitors of the Digital Concert Hall. It opened with Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, which plays creatively with sounds, noises and language. The highlight of the programme is Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, which shifts between melancholy and vigorous rebellion.
12 Mar 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle- free
Interview
Andrea Zietzschmann and Simon Rattle on a concert without an audience Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 Voices and OrchestraNeue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
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Interview
Simon Rattle on Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116
Simon Rattle conducts Strauss and Beethoven
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
In his Oboe Concerto, Richard Strauss magically succeeded in composing in the spirit of Mozart and Schubert without denying his own artistic identity. Simon Rattle performs the work with the Philharmoniker’s principal oboe Jonathan Kelly. He then presents Beethoven’s oratorio Christus am Ölberge, which conveys less spiritual devotion than operatic expressiveness, such as in a dramatically escalating scene depicting the arrest of Jesus.
07 Mar 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleJonathan Kelly
Richard Strauss
Concerto in D major for Oboe and Small Orchestra, AV 144 / TrV 292Jonathan Kelly oboe
Benjamin Britten
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49: PanJonathan Kelly oboe
Ludwig van Beethoven
Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Oratorio, op. 85Franz Xaver Huber, Iwona Sobotka soprano, Benjamin Bruns tenor, David Soar baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey chorus master
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Interview
Jonathan Kelly in conversation with Tobias Möller
Mahler’s Third Symphony with Elīna Garanča and Lorenzo Viotti
Photo: Stephan Rabold
In his Third Symphony, Gustav Mahler gives musical form to elemental symbols of nature – including stories of flowers and animals – with which he creates a gigantic world panorama, culminating in a hymn of overwhelming beauty. In this performance we hear Lorenzo Viotti, who steps in for Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Elīna Garanča, who not only has “beauty of voice, but also that indefinable magic called charisma” (The Telegraph).
29 Feb 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Lorenzo ViottiElīna Garanča
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D minorElīna Garanča mezzo-soprano, Women of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Boys of the Berlin State and Cathedral Choir
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Interview
Elīna Garanča in conversation with Julia Gartemann
Kirill Petrenko conducts Stravinsky, Zimmermann and Rachmaninov
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
The music of the 20th century is often considered inaccessible. Kirill Petrenko shows how wrong this prejudice is with three works written between 1940 and 1950 which differently convey sensuousness and energy. We experience rhythmic power in Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, the combination of innovation and Brazilian flair in Zimmermann’s Alagoana and finally, the voluptuous melancholy of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances.
15 Feb 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill PetrenkoIgor Stravinsky
Symphony in Three MovementsBernd Alois Zimmermann
Alagoana. Caprichos Brasileiros, Ballet SuiteSergei Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, op. 45- free
Interview
Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Christoph Streuli
