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Ludovic Morlot and Joyce DiDonato
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
The press described Joyce DiDonato’s Philharmonic debut in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust as “ravishingly nuanced” and “angelic”. Now the charming singer can be experienced as a Berlioz interpreter again when she addresses the delicate expressivity of the cantata La Mort de Cléopâtre. Conductor Ludovic Morlot, who steps in for Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will also present Ravel’s delightful suite Ma Mère l’OyeStravinsky’s revolutionary ballet music The Firebird.
17 Jun 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Ludovic MorlotJoyce DiDonato
Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère l’Oye, Suite for orchestraHector Berlioz
La Mort de Cléopâtre, Lyrical Scene for soprano and orchestraJoyce DiDonato Mezzo-Soprano
Igor Stravinsky
L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet- free
Interview
Joyce DiDonato in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Dvořák’s Symphony “From the New World”
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, composed in New York, presents itself as colourful, yearning, with a somewhat exotic touch – an inspired fusion of American impressions and symphonic music. In an exciting juxtaposition, Gustavo Dudamel will also conduct John Adams’s City Noir. Here too there is a fascinating mixture of styles, this time between classical music and jazz of the 1940s and 1950s.
09 Jun 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelTimothy McAllister
John Adams
City Noir for orchestraTimothy McAllister Saxophone
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “From the New World”- free
Interview
Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
Simon Rattle conducts “Le Sacre du printemps”
“Simon Rattle and friends”: that’s how one could describe this concert. The composer Thomas Adès, whose Powder Her Face Suite we hear here, and Imogen Cooper, the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, have both been artistic associates for many years. One could say the same about Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, which Rattle has conducted in Berlin repeatedly, including in 2003 at the first dance project of the Philharmoniker’s Education Programme.
03 Jun 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleImogen Cooper
Thomas Adès
Powder Her Face Suite, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation together with Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (WP)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 25 in C major, K. 503Imogen Cooper Piano
Igor Stravinsky
Chant funèbre German PremièreIgor Stravinsky
Le Sacre du printemps (revised 1947 version)- free
Interview
Imogen Cooper in conversation with Matthew Hunter - free
Interview
Sir Simon Rattle on Stravinsky’s Chant funèbre
Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Leif Ove Andsnes
Sergei Rachmaninov was actually a great melancholic – yet his Fourth Piano Concerto is colourful and spontaneous. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will interpret the work together with Andrés Orozco-Estrada. The music director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and the Houston Symphony debuts on this evening with the Berliner Philharmoniker. The virtuoso programme will also present Richard Strauss’s Macbeth and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.
20 May 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Andrés Orozco-EstradaLeif Ove Andsnes
Richard Strauss
Macbeth, op. 23Sergei Rachmaninov
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G minor, op. 40Leif Ove Andsnes Piano
Jean Sibelius
Romance in D-flat major, op. 24, No. 9Leif Ove Andsnes Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47- free
Interview
Andrés Orozco-Estrada in conversation with Philipp Bohnen
Semyon Bychkov and Gautier Capuçon
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Richard Strauss often came in for caustic criticism for his innovative music. He traces these conflicts in his tone poem Ein Heldenleben: biting, original, with an opulent orchestra sound. Dmitri Shostakovich’s battles in the dictatorship under Stalin were even more existential. Here too, there is an echo of this in the composer’s music, including in the First Cello Concerto – which can be heard here with Gautier Capuçon as the soloist. Semyon Bychkov conducts.
13 May 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Semyon BychkovGautier Capuçon
Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major, op. 107Gautier Capuçon Cello
Pablo Casals
El cant dels ocellsGautier Capuçon Cello
Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), op. 40- free
Interview
Gautier Capuçon in conversation with Sarah Willis
Simon Rattle conducts Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony
Photo: Kai Bienert
Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker have already performed Bruckner’s Seventh and Ninth Symphonies to great acclaim. With the Eighth there follows the composer’s most extensive work. It acquires its tremendous energy from the interplay of wave-like escalations – the piling up of monumental blocks of sound and falling back into melancholy brooding. The evening will open with a new short work by Simon Holt.
06 May 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleSimon Holt
Surcos (première)Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (Haas edition)
Mariss Jansons conducts Sibelius, Weber and Bartók
Photo: Martin Walz
Three composers, three distinct musical languages: that’s on offer on this programme with Mariss Jansons. Thus in Jean Sibelius’s First Symphony, his characteristic Nordic idiom is already unmistakeable. Weber’s first Clarinet Concerto, in turn, combines stupendous virtuosity and Romantic cantilena. And finally Béla Bartók with The Miraculous Mandarin: a rare fusion of uncompromising modernity and sensuousness of sound.
29 Apr 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Mariss JansonsAndreas Ottensamer
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, op. 39Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 1 in F minor, op. 73Andreas Ottensamer Clarinet
Béla Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin, suite, Sz 73
Simon Rattle conducts “Tosca”
Photo: Peter Adamik
In Puccini’s Tosca, moments full of love and intimacy alternate in breathtaking tempo with those of jealousy, hate and sadistic brutality. Puccini traces this range of feelings in a musical language that is simultaneously psychologising and breathtakingly beautiful. The title role in this performance with Simon Rattle will be sung by Kristīne Opolais, who is acclaimed as a Puccini interpreter on the great opera stages from Vienna to New York.
22 Apr 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleKristine Opolais, Stefano La Colla, Evgeny Nikitin
Giacomo Puccini
Tosca (concert performance)Kristine Opolais Soprano (Floria Tosca), Stefano La Colla Tenor (Mario Cavaradossi), Evgeny Nikitin Bass Baritone (Baron Scarpia), Alexander Tsymbalyuk Bass (Cesare Angelotti), Peter Tantsits Tenor (Spoletta), Douglas Williams Bass (Sciarrone), Maurizio Muraro Bass (Sacristan), Walter Fink Bass (Jailer), Giuseppe Mantello Boy Soprano (Shepherd Boy), Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Vinzenz Weissenburger Chorus Master, Rundfunkchor Berlin, David Jones Chorus Master
- free
Interview
Live Lounge 2017 from the Baden-Baden Easter Festival
