11 concert with Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Wagner and Schumann at the Waldbühne
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
The orchestral music from Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen is ideal for a concert at Berlin’s Waldbühne. Particularly with such a dynamic conductor as Gustavo Dudamel, pieces like the Ride of the Valkyries develop an impact that reaches even the very last rows of the enormous auditorium. Like Wagner’s opera cycle, Robert Schumann’s Third Symphony leads us to the Rhine, inspiring the composer to vibrating and sonorous music.
01 Jul 2017
From the Berlin WaldbühneBerliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelRobert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 97 “Rhenish”Richard Wagner
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung): Orchestral MusicRichard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: LiebestodRichard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3Paul Lincke
Berliner Luft
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 also conducts 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
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mozart and Mahler
The young Gustavo Dudamel is famous for his sparkling energy, and in this concert from 2015 he conducts works that are equally bursting with youthful spirit. First, there’s the Posthorn Serenade by 23-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: jaunty and tight with splendid brass soli. Gustav Mahler, too, was only in his mid-20’s when he composed his First Symphony – a powerful, vernal start to a great career as a composer.
12 Jun 2015Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 9 in D major, K. 320 “Posthorn”Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D major
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Tchaikovsky and Brahms at the Waldbühne
At his second Waldbühne Concert Gustavo Dudamel marked the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth by conducting two works by Tchaikovsky: his popular fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet and his symphonic fantasy on The Tempest, a work far too infrequently heard. After the interval came a cornerstone of the late Romantic German repertory: Brahms’s First Symphony.
27 Jun 2014
From the Berlin WaldbühneBerliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelPiotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasy after ShakespearePiotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture after ShakespeareJohannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68Leonard Bernstein
Divertimento: WaltzGioacchino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: OverturePaul Lincke
Berliner Luft
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony
The press wrote enthusiastically about the “fire and precision” of Gustavo Dudamel’s interpretation of Mahler’s Third Symphony in this concert from June 2014. And it is exactly these qualities that are required to bring out the full wealth of this vast, complex work: from the first movement – the longest Mahler ever wrote – to the warm tones of the hymn-like Finale.
13 Jun 2014Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelGerhild Romberger
Harrison Birtwistle
Dinah and Nick’s Love SongGustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D minorKai-Uwe Jirka Chorus Master, Boys of the Staats- und Domchor Berlin, Gerhild Romberger Mezzo-Soprano, Damen des Rundfunkchors Berlin, Tobias Löbner Chorus Master
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven, Schubert and Stravinsky
Gustavo Dudamel is acclaimed all over the world as a spirited conductor of passionate music, and in this concert too, he shows himself to be the ideal interpreter of Igor Stravinsky’s fiery and vibrant Suites Nos. 1 and 2. The fact that he is now also a master of the fine shading required for the music of the First Viennese School can be heard in his astutely balanced performance of the fourth symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.
06 Dec 2013Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelIgor Stravinsky
Suite No. 1 for small orchestraFranz Schubert
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417Igor Stravinsky
Suite No. 2 for small orchestraLudwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, op. 60- free
Interview
Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Sarah Willis - free
Interview
Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Edicson Ruiz
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Strauss and Barber
The Berliner Philharmoniker have a very special relationship with Richard Strauss. Not least, because the composer himself made guest conducting appearances with the orchestra over many years. In this recording, Gustavo Dudamel conducts two Strauss tone poems whose appeal lies in their fire and sophistication: Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel. Plus there is Samuel Barber’s overwhelmingly poignant Adagio for Strings.
03 Feb 2013Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelSamuel Barber
Adagio for strings, op. 11Richard Strauss
Don Juan, op. 20Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks), op. 28- free
Interview
Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Sarah Willis
European Concert 2012 from Vienna with Gustavo Dudamel and Gautier Capuçon
The Spanish Riding School in Vienna houses one of the world’s most unique institutions within a magnificent Baroque setting. The Berliner Philharmoniker gave their annual European Concert here in 2012 under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel – with music from Austria, of course. The main work was Beethoven’s revolutionary Fifth Symphony, while the brilliant soloist in Haydn’s First Cello Concerto was Gautier Capuçon, making his Philharmoniker debut.
01 May 2012
European Concert from ViennaBerliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelGautier Capuçon
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, op. 56aJoseph Haydn
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1Gautier Capuçon violoncello
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Gustavo Dudamel conducts “Also sprach Zarathustra”
Photo: Kai Bienert
The musically powerful optimism conveyed in Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is in good hands with a conductor as energetic as Gustavo Dudamel. But there are other colours in this concert, such as in Maurice Ravel’s Ma mere l’oye: fairy tale scenes full of elegance, poetry and wit. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Violin Concerto also radiates virtuosity and full-bodied Hollywood sound, performed here with Leonidas Kavakos as the soloist.
28 Apr 2012Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelLeonidas Kavakos
Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère l’Oye, balleErich Wolfgang Korngold
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 35Leonidas Kavakos Violin
Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), op. 30- free
Interview
Gustavo Dudamel on Ravel, Korngold and Richard Strauss
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12
Photo: Kai Bienert
It is rare to experience such a concentration of percussion instruments as there were in this concert with Gustavo Dudamel. In Sofia Gubaidulina's Glorious Percussion, no less than five percussionists demonstrate the multifaceted sounds and effects their intruments can produce. Dmitri Shostakovich’s 12th Symphony is no less energetic – for the composer an unusually enthusiastic work which was played here by the Berliner Philharmoniker for the very first time.
19 Sep 2009Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelEnsemble Glorious Percussion
Sofia Gubaidulina
Glorious Percussion, concerto for percussion ensemble and orchestraEnsemble Glorious Percussion
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 12 in D minor, op. 112 “The Year 1917”- free
Interview
Sofia Gubaidulina in conversation with Margarete Zander
A Russian evening with Gustavo Dudamel and Viktoria Mullova
He is a “spitfire” – but one with “profound musical understanding and flawless conducting skill”. That is what the press wrote about Gustavo Dudamel when he conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker for the first time in the Philharmonie in March 2009. The diverse Russian programme was also exciting, with Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead and Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, with Viktoria Mullova as soloist.
07 Mar 2009Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelViktoria Mullova
Sergei Rachmaninov
Isle of the Dead, op. 29Igor Stravinsky
Concerto en Ré for Violin and OrchestraViktoria Mullova Violin
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, op. 100- free
Interview
Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Edicson Ruiz
