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• The Berlin Phil Series: “Berlin Phil Brass”

  

  Photo: Stephan Rabold

  The new episode of the Berlin Phil series features fanfares, chorales and marches with brass players of the Berliner Philharmoniker and organist Sebastian Heidl. The selection includes works by Beethoven, Handel and Elgar as well as compositions from the distinguished French organ tradition. The charming combination of the church instrument with the colours of the symphony orchestra resounds at the end of the concert in the finale from Camille Saint-Saëns’s “Organ Symphony”. The conductor of the performance from the archive of the Digital Concert Hall was Zubin Mehta.

  16 May 2020

  Brass ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sebastian Heindl

  • Paul Dukas
    Fanfare pour précéder “La Péri” (arr. for brass and organ by Sebastian Heindl)

  • Eugène Gigout
    Grand chœur dialogué (arr. for brass and organ by Hans Zellner)

  • Alexandre Guilmant
    Morceau symphonique op. 88 (arr. for trombone and organ by Ulrich Nehls)

    Olaf Ott trombone

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Egmont op. 84: Overture (arr. for organ by Sebastian Heindl)

  • Thierry Escaich
    Tanz-Fantasie for trumpet and organ

    Andre Schoch trumpet

  • George Frideric Handel
    Concerto grosso in D minor op. 3 No. 5 HWV 316 (arr. for brass by Joshua Davis)

  • Frigyes Hidas
    Domine, Dona Nobis Pacem for trombone and organ

    Thomas Leyendecker trombone

  • Edward Elgar
    Pomp and Circumstance, op. 39: March No.1 (arr. for brass and organ by Hans Zellner)

  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Symphony No. 3 in C minor, op. 78 “Organ Symphony”

    Zubin Mehta conductor

  The Berlin Phil Series: “Berlin Phil Brass” Go to concert

• Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks”

  

  Photo: Stephan Rabold

  In Handel’s famous Music for the Royal Fireworks, Baroque music shows its most magnificent side. In this concert, the work will be conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, who in energetic performances repeatedly succeeds in “unleashing the wild and daring side of the Baroque” (The New York Times). The second part of the concert is dedicated to Handel’s cantata Apollo e Dafne – an early work that in sometimes highly virtuosic and enchantingly delicate arias reveals Handel’s interest in Italian opera.

  19 Oct 2019

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Emmanuelle Haïm

  Lucy Crowe, Florian Sempey

  • Henry Purcell
    Suite from The Fairy Queen

  • George Frideric Handel
    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

  • George Frideric Handel
    Apollo e Dafne, Cantata for Soprano, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Strings and Continuo, HWV 122

    Lucy Crowe soprano, Florian Sempey baritone

  • free

    Interview
    Emmanuelle Haïm in conversation with Jonathan Kelly

  Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks” Go to concert

• Janine Jansen plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

  

  Photo: Frederike van der Stræten

  The New York Times attests that the violinist Janine Jansen has “a kind of radiant modesty”, and indeed: even in moments of utmost virtuosity, her performances captivate with introspection and substance. This ability is particularly well demonstrated in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, which, despite its fast yet expressive tempos, is always interspersed with subtle nuances. To bring the concert to a close, Paavo Järvi conducts Robert Schumann’s sonorous and exuberant Rhenish Symphony.

  12 Oct 2019

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Paavo Järvi

  Janine Jansen

  • Jean Sibelius
    Tapiola, Symphonic Poem, op. 112

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 35

    Janine Jansen violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande

    Janine Jansen violin

  • Robert Schumann
    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 97 “Rhenish”

  • free

    Interview
    Paavo Järvi in conversation with Sarah Willis

  Janine Jansen plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto Go to concert

• 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 2019

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Paavo Järvi

  Mojca Erdmann

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Musical Offering, BWV 1079: No. 2 Ricercar a 6 (arr. by Anton Webern)

  • Alban Berg
    Seven Early Songs

    Mojca Erdmann soprano

  • Anton Bruckner
    Symphony No. 2 in C minor (2nd version from 1877)

  • free

    Interview
    Paavo Järvi in conversation with Gunars Upatnieks

  Paavo Järvi conducts Berg and Bruckner Go to concert

• Bach’s “St John Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars

  

  Photo: Stephan Rabold

  A double reunion: for the first time since the end of his tenure as chief conductor of the orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle returns to the Berliner Philharmoniker. The programme features one of the most sensational productions of those years: Bach’s St. John Passion in the production of Peter Sellars, which uses intensive imagery to accentuate the meditative as well as the dramatic dimensions of the work. The singers include the Rundfunkchor Berlin and a top-class ensemble of soloists.

  16 Mar 2019

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Rundfunkchor Berlin, Peter Sellars

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St John Passion, BWV 245: Part 1

    Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano, Camilla Tilling soprano, Georg Nigl baritone (Petrus), Mark Padmore tenor (Evangelist), Roderick Williams baritone (Jesus), Andrew Staples tenor, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey chorus master, Peter Sellars staging

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St John Passion, BWV 245: Part 2

  • free

    Interview
    Peter Sellars talks about Bach’s “St John Passion”

  Bach’s “St John Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars Go to concert

• “Late Night” concert with Patricia Kopatchinskaja

  

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  The mysterious, expressionistic miniatures of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire cycle are perfect for a Late Night concert. The wonderful violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who enjoys the experimental, recites the poems that underlie the work. The concert also includes waltzes by Johann Strauss II in arrangements by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. In these arrangements, Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to her usual role as a violinist.

  09 Mar 2019
  Late Night at the Philharmonie

  Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
  

  Patricia Kopatchinskaja

  • George Enescu
    Impressions dʼenfance, op. 28: No. 1 Ménétrier

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Pierrot lunaire, op. 21, 1st Part

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja speaker, Egor Egorkin flute, Manfred Preis clarinet, Krzysztof Polonek violin, Naoko Shimizu viola, Ludwig Quandt cello, Tamara Stefanovich piano

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Presto in C minor, Wq 114/3, H. 230

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, Ludwig Quandt cello

  • Johann Strauss II
    Kaiserwalzer, op. 437 (arr. for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg)

    Krzysztof Polonek violin, Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, Naoko Shimizu viola, Egor Egorkin flute, Manfred Preis clarinet, Tamara Stefanovich piano

  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Pierrot lunaire, op. 21, 2nd Part

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja speaker, Egor Egorkin flute, Manfred Preis clarinet, Krzysztof Polonek violin, Naoko Shimizu viola, Ludwig Quandt cello, Tamara Stefanovich piano

  • Johann Strauss II
    Schatzwalzer, op. 418 (arr. for string quartet, piano und Harmonium by Anton Webern)

    Krzysztof Polonek violin, Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, Naoko Shimizu viola, Ludwig Quandt cello, Heike Gneiting harmonium, Tamara Stefanovich piano

  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Pierrot lunaire, op. 21, 3rd Part

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja speaker, Egor Egorkin flute, Manfred Preis clarinet, Krzysztof Polonek violin, Naoko Shimizu viola, Ludwig Quandt cello, Tamara Stefanovich piano

  • free

    Interview
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire

  “Late Night” concert with Patricia Kopatchinskaja Go to concert

• Sakari Oramo and Alban Gerhardt

  

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  Two fabulous, mythical travel stories from Scandinavia are on the programme in this concert: Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and Jean Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite. Between these two works will be the European premiere of the Cello Concerto by Brett Dean, one of the most sought-after composers of our time and former violist with the Berliner Philharmoniker. The conductor is Sakari Oramo, who currently heads the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The soloist is Alban Gerhardt.

  06 Oct 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sakari Oramo

  Alban Gerhardt

  • Edvard Grieg
    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46

  • Brett Dean
    Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (European première)

    Alban Gerhardt cello

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Prélude

    Alban Gerhardt cello

  • Jean Sibelius
    Lemminkäinen Suite, op. 22

  • free

    Interview
    Sakari Oramo in conversation with Fergus McWilliam

  • free

    Interview
    Brett Dean in conversation with Fergus McWilliam

  Sakari Oramo and Alban Gerhardt Go to concert

• Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená at the Waldbühne

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  A celebratory finale to an era with the Berliner Philharmoniker. With this concert at the Waldbühne, Sir Simon Rattle’s tenure as chief conductor of the orchestra ends after 16 years. It is a colourful, sparkling farewell – with works by Gershwin, Fauré, Khachaturian and Respighi. The star guest is Sir Simon’s wife, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, who sings excerpts from Joseph Canteloube’s charming Chants d’Auvergne.

  24 Jun 2018
  From the Berlin Waldbühne

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Magdalena Kožená

  • George Gershwin
    Cuban Overture

  • Gabriel Fauré
    Pavane

  • Joseph Canteloube de Malaret
    Chants d’Auvergne (Selection)

    Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano

  • Aram Khachaturian
    Gayane Suite No. 3: No. 2 Dance of the Young Kurds

  • Aram Khachaturian
    Gayane Suite No. 1: No. 7 Adagio of Gayane

  • Aram Khachaturian
    Gayane Suite No. 1: No. 8 Lezginka

  • Ottorino Respighi
    Pini di Roma

  • Claudio Monteverdi
    “Si dolce è’l tormento”, madrigal for solo voice and basso continuo, SV 332

    Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano

  • Edward Elgar
    Pomp and Circumstance, op. 39: March No. 1

  • John Philip Sousa
    The Liberty Bell

  • Paul Lincke
    Berliner Luft

  Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená at the Waldbühne Go to concert

• Adam Fischer and Leonidas Kavakos

  Dark tones in every shade dominate the beginning of this concert. For example, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, written in memory of the 19-year-old Manon Gropius, is one of the most poignant works of Modernism. Anton Webern’s delicate Passacaglia was written with the death of the composer’s own mother still fresh in his mind. In contrast to these is Antonín Dvořák's Ninth Symphony From the New World with its folkloric cheerfulness and ingenious combination of American and Bohemian idioms.

  10 Feb 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Adam Fischer

  Leonidas Kavakos

  • Anton Webern
    Passacaglia, op. 1

  • Alban Berg
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra “To the Memory of an Angel”

    Leonidas Kavakos violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003: Andante

    Leonidas Kavakos violin

  • Antonín Dvořák
    Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “From the New World”

  • free

    Interview
    Leonidas Kavakos in conversation with Allan Nilles

  Adam Fischer and Leonidas Kavakos Go to concert

• Mikko Franck conducts Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges”

  Ravel’s short opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges is a work full of imagination, charm and humour. Like in a revue, the composer employs a wide range of musical styles one after another, from neo-Baroque sounds to ragtime. The conductor of this concert performance is Mikko Franck, who steps in for Seiji Ozawa. The focus of the first part of the evening is our 1st concertmaster, Noah Bendix-Balgley, who plays (without the participation of Mikko Franck) works by Mozart and Saint-Saëns.

  21 Jan 2018

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Mikko Franck

  Noah Bendix-Balgley, Emily Fons

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A major, K. 219

    Noah Bendix-Balgley violin and direction

  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra in A minor, op. 28

    Noah Bendix-Balgley violin and direction

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Sonata No. 3 in C major for Violin solo, BWV 1005: Largo

    Noah Bendix-Balgley violin

  • Maurice Ravel
    L’Enfant et les sortilèges, opera in one act

    Emily Fons mezzo-soprano, Sir Paul Gay bass baritone, Kiera Duffy soprano, Marie Lenormand mezzo-soprano, Elodie Méchain contralto, Mathias Vidal tenor, Elliot Madore baritone, Kanae Fujitani soprano, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master, Children’s Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin, Dagmar Fiebach chorus master

  • free

    Interview
    Noah Bendix-Balgley on Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Camille Saint-Saëns’s “Introduction et Rondo capriccioso”

  • free

    Interview
    Mikko Franck in conversation with Stephan Koncz

  Mikko Franck conducts Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges” Go to concert

• Ton Koopman conducts Bach’s Mass in B Minor

  The B minor Mass is Johann Sebastian Bach’s legacy to vocal music: a cosmos of all the forms and styles that make his sacred works so rich. There are arias of dance-like lightness as well as austere Renaissance singing, ingeniously constructed fugues and jubilant choruses. In this concert the work is performed under the baton of Ton Koopman, a conductor, organist and harpsichordist who is one of the great Bach interpreters of our time.

  28 Oct 2017

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Ton Koopman

  RIAS Kammerchor

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Mass in B minor, BWV 232

    Yetzabel Arias Fernández soprano, Wiebke Lehmkuhl contralto, Tilman Lichdi tenor, Klaus Mertens bass, RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle chorus master

  • free

    Interview
    Ton Koopman in conversation with Jonathan Kelly

  Ton Koopman conducts Bach’s Mass in B Minor Go to concert

• Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Brahms’s “Ein deutsches Requiem”

  Photo: Hans von der Woerd

  Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem is a powerful, solemn work, yet its message shows the utmost compassion. While the horrors of the last judgement are the focus in traditional requiem settings, Brahms’s work sings sensitively of sorrow and consolation in the face of death. The conductor of this performance is Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and music director designate of the Met in New York.

  21 Oct 2017

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin

  Rundfunkchor Berlin

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Heilig, Cantata for solo contralto, 2 mixed choirs and 2 orchestras, Wq 217

    Wiebke Lehmkuhl contralto, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master

  • Johannes Brahms
    Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45

    Hanna-Elisabeth Müller soprano, Markus Werba baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master

  • free

    Interview
    Yannick Nézet-Séguin in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Brahms’s “Ein deutsches Requiem” Go to concert

• Alain Altinoglu debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker

  The transition to Modernism is one of the most exciting phases in musical history. In this concert, works by Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy and Albert Roussel reveal the richness of late Romanticism combined with originality and pioneering spirit. Alain Altinoglu, the “sensitive magician of timbre” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), makes his debut conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker with Máté Szűcs as the soloist in Bartók’s Viola Concerto.

  23 Sep 2017

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Alain Altinoglu

  Máté Szűcs

  • Maurice Ravel
    Rhapsodie espagnole

  • Béla Bartók
    Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Sz 120 (Restoration and Orchestration by Csaba Erdélyi, 2016 European Première)

    Máté Szűcs viola

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande

    Máté Szűcs viola

  • Claude Debussy
    Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande arranged in form of a suite by Alain Altinoglu Première

  • Albert Roussel
    Bacchus et Ariane, Orchestral Suite No. 2

  • free

    Interview
    Alain Altinoglu in conversation with Fergus McWilliam

  Alain Altinoglu debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker Go to concert

• Susanna Mälkki and Gil Shaham

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  The works of this evening with Susanna Mälkki look both back to the past and forward to the future. For example, Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, with soloist Gil Shaham, is in the tradition of Beethoven and Brahms but also experiments with the twelve-tone technique. Jean Sibelius’s Second Symphony, on the other hand, combines echoes of Tchaikovsky with innovative form, while Ferruccio Busoni’s Tanz-Walzer conjures up the atmosphere of a coffee house.

  10 Sep 2017

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Susanna Mälkki

  Gil Shaham

  • Ferruccio Busoni
    Tanz-Walzer for orchestra, op. 53

  • Béla Bartók
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, Sz 112

    Gil Shaham violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: Gavotte en Rondeau

    Gil Shaham violin

  • Jean Sibelius
    Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43

  • free

    Interview
    Susanna Mälkki in conversation with Matthew McDonald

  Susanna Mälkki and Gil Shaham Go to concert

• The National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Ballet of Germany perform Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony

  Photo: Peter Adamik

  A substantial jubilee shapes this 2017 guest concert by the National Youth Orchestra: the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Besides Felix Mendelssohn’s splendid Reformation Symphony and Bach’s graceful Orchestral Suite No. 3, two newer works reflecting on the occasion can also be heard. As a special bonus, the German National Youth Ballet performs. Alexander Shelley conducts; John Neumeier is one of the choreographers.

  16 Jan 2017

  National Youth Orchestra of Germany
  Alexander Shelley

  • free

    Felix Mendelssohn
    Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 107 “Reformation”

    National Youth Ballet, John Neumeier Choreographer

  • free

    Michel van der Aa
    Reversal for orchestra

    National Youth Ballet, Andrey Kaydanovskiy Choreographer

  • free

    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

    National Youth Ballet, John Neumeier Choreographer

  • free

    Enjott Schneider
    Ein feste Burg, Symphonic Poem for orchestra

    National Youth Ballet, Zhang Disha Choreographer

  The National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Ballet of Germany perform Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony Go to concert

• Mariss Jansons and Truls Mørk

  Photo: Bayerischer Rundfunk

  Dmitri Shostakovich reflects unsparingly on the horrors of the Stalin era with his Tenth Symphony. Specifically, the manic brutal second movement was conceived as a portrait of the dictator. The work is conducted at this concert by Mariss Jansons, whose musical origins were in the renowned Leningrad Shostakovich tradition; he was considered one of the best Shostakovich interpreters. We encounter soloist Truls Mørk in Henri Dutilleux’s yearning cello concerto.

  05 Mar 2016

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Mariss Jansons

  Truls Mørk

  • Hector Berlioz
    Le Carnaval romain, Ouverture caractéristique, op. 9

  • Henri Dutilleux
    Tout un monde lointain..., concerto for cello and orchestra

    Truls Mørk Cello

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Sarabande

    Truls Mørk Cello

  • free

    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op. 93

  • free

    Interview
    Truls Mørk in conversation with Ludwig Quandt

  Mariss Jansons and Truls Mørk Go to concert

• Simon Rattle and Daniel Stabrawa

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  Albert Roussel and Jean-Philippe Rameau – though born 200 years apart – were brothers in spirit: individual, surprising, with a unique sense of timbre. All these qualities manifest themselves in this concert with Roussel’s Le Festin de l’araignée and Rameau’s Les Boréades. In addition, Simon Rattle and Daniel Stabrawa interpret Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2, which shimmers wonderfully between Impressionism and Polish folk music.

  27 Feb 2016

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Daniel Stabrawa

  • Albert Roussel
    Le Festin de l’araignée (The Spider’s Feast), Symphonic Fragments from the Ballet-Pantomime

  • Karol Szymanowski
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, op. 61

    Daniel Stabrawa Violin

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Les Boréades, orchestral pieces from the opera, arranged in form of a suite by Sir Simon Rattle

  • free

    Interview
    Daniel Stabrawa in conversation with Rainer Seegers

  Simon Rattle and Daniel Stabrawa Go to concert

• A French evening with François-Xavier Roth and Anna Caterina Antonacci

  Photo: Kai Bienert

  A diverse cross-section of three centuries of French music is on offer at this concert from December 2015 – from the Baroque master Jean-Baptiste Lully to Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Edgard Varèse. The Italian soprano Anna Catarina Antonacci sings in Hector Berlioz’s sensuous Nuits d’été. With this programme, conductor François-Xavier Roth makes his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

  01 Dec 2015

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  François-Xavier Roth

  Anna Caterina Antonacci

  • Edgard Varèse
    Ionisation for 13 percussionists

  • Jean-Baptiste Lully
    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, suite

  • Hector Berlioz
    Les Nuits d’été for soprano and orchestra, op. 7

    Anna Caterina Antonacci Soprano

  • Claude Debussy
    Première Suite d’orchestre

  • Maurice Ravel
    La Valse, Poème chorégraphique for orchestra

  • free

    Interview
    François-Xavier Roth in conversation with Sebastian Krunnies

  A French evening with François-Xavier Roth and Anna Caterina Antonacci Go to concert

• Mariss Jansons and Frank Peter Zimmermann

  In May 2015, Mariss Jansons and the Berliner Philharmoniker presented an extraordinarily colourful programme with Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2; Frank Peter Zimmermann was the soloist. In different ways the works convey a shared message: namely, that unconditional modernity and sensuous magic in sound are by no means mutually exclusive.

  10 May 2015

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Mariss Jansons

  Frank Peter Zimmermann

  • Béla Bartók
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106

  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in C sharp minor, op. 129

    Frank Peter Zimmermann Violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003: Allegro

  • Maurice Ravel
    Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

  • free

    Interview
    Mariss Jansons in conversation with Gábor Tarkövi

  • free

    Interview
    Frank Peter Zimmermann in conversation with Rüdiger Liebermann

  Mariss Jansons and Frank Peter Zimmermann Go to concert

• Simon Rattle conducts the 2015 Europakonzert in Athens

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  In 2015, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Europakonzert could hardly have been more European, taking the orchestra to Greece, the country the name “Europe” comes from, and the cradle of democracy. In the Athens concert hall Megaron, Sir Simon Rattle conducted a programme which takes us on a whistle-stop tour of Europe with works by Gioacchino Rossini, Robert Schumann and Jean Sibelius. The soloist is the Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos.

  01 May 2015
  Europakonzert from Athens

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  • Gioacchino Rossini
    Semiramide: Overture

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

    Leonidas Kavakos Violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005: Largo

  • Robert Schumann
    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 97 “Rhenish”

  Simon Rattle conducts the 2015 Europakonzert in Athens Go to concert

• A Sibelius evening with Simon Rattle and Leonidas Kavakos

  On the second night of their performance of all of Sibelius’s symphonies in February 2015, Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker played the Third and the Fourth symphonies which both represent a fusion of Nordic melody and a pioneering concept. The soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is the Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos who, to quote the press, played “with an admirable slender tone”.

  06 Feb 2015

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Leonidas Kavakos

  • Jean Sibelius
    Symphony No. 3 in C major, op. 52

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

    Leonidas Kavakos Violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: Gavotte en Rondeau

    Leonidas Kavakos violin

  • Jean Sibelius
    Symphony No. 4 in A minor, op. 63

  A Sibelius evening with Simon Rattle and Leonidas Kavakos Go to concert

• Violins of Hope

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  A special concert for a special occasion: In January 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker played on violins which had once belonged to victims of the Holocaust. This project was made possible by the Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein who has collected and restored these instruments over many years.

  27 Jan 2015
  Concert on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
  

  Sir Simon Rattle, Ulrich Matthes, Guy Braunstein, Zvi Plesser, Duncan Ward, Ohad Ben-Ari

  • Speech by the German Federal Foreign Minister, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  • Gustav Mahler
    Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

    Sir Simon Rattle Conductor

  • Ulrich Matthes speaks about the “Violins of Hope”

    Ulrich Matthes Speaker

  • Joseph Achron
    Hebrew Melody, op. 33 (arr. for harp and string ensemble by Ohad Ben-Ari)

    Guy Braunstein Violin

  • Max Bruch
    Kol Nidrei, op. 47 (arr. for harp, cello and string ensemble by Ohad Ben-Ari)

    Zvi Plesser Cello

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Concerto for violin, strings and basso continuo in A minor, BWV 1041: 2. Andante

    Guy Braunstein Violin

  • Samuel Adler
    Elegy for string orchestra

    Duncan Ward Conductor

  • Ulrich Matthes reads from the memoirs of Eli Wiesel

    Ulrich Matthes

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Romance for violin and orchestra No. 2 in F major, op. 50 (arr. for violin and string ensemble by Ohad Ben-Ari)

    Guy Braunstein Violin

  • Anonymus
    Avinu, Malkenu for violin, cello and strings

    Guy Braunstein Violin, Zvi Plesser Cello

  • Ulrich Matthes reads from the memoirs of Henry Meyer

    Ulrich Matthes

  • Ohad Ben-Ari
    Violins of Hope for violin, cello and string ensemble (première)

    Guy Braunstein Violin, Duncan Ward, Zvi Plesser Cello

  • free

    Interview
    Amnon Weinstein on the "Violins of Hope"

  Violins of Hope Go to concert

• New Year’s Eve Concert with Simon Rattle and Menahem Pressler

  Photo: Holger Kettner

  The Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle celebrate New Year’s Eve 2014! Including Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 488 and the legendary Menahem Pressler. The Financial Times wrote: “Pressler breathes the air of a different era, where each note is articulated like a spoken word, and each phrase communicates more than language.” There are also sparkling colours and dance-like energy in works by Rameau, Kodály and Dvořák.

  31 Dec 2014
  New Year’s Eve Concert

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Menahem Pressler

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Les Indes galantes, suite

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A major, K. 488

    Menahem Pressler Piano

  • Antonín Dvořák
    Slavonic Dances: Selection

  • Zoltán Kodály
    Háry János Suite: Excerpts

    Luigi Gaggero cimbalom

  • Johannes Brahms
    Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor

  • Aram Khachaturian
    Gayane Suite No. 1: 8. Lezginka

  New Year’s Eve Concert with Simon Rattle and Menahem Pressler Go to concert

• Alan Gilbert conducts landscape scenes by Mendelssohn and Nielsen

  Landscapes and folklore have inspired the creativity of many great composers. Alan Gilbert presents two lovely examples in this recording from 2014. While Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony reflects impressions of his travels in Scotland, Carl Nielsen’s musical language is shaped almost entirely by the composer’s Danish home, as his atmospherically dense Symphony Nr. 3 proves.

  22 Nov 2014

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Alan Gilbert

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid”, cantata, BWV 58

    Christina Landshamer Soprano, Michael Nagy Baritone

  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 56 “Scottish”

  • Carl Nielsen
    Symphony No. 3, op. 27 “Sinfonia espansiva”

    Christina Landshamer Soprano, Michael Nagy Baritone

  • free

    Interview
    Alan Gilbert in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud

  Alan Gilbert conducts landscape scenes by Mendelssohn and Nielsen Go to concert

• Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel’s “La resurrezione”

  Photo: Stephan Rabold

  The oratorio La resurrezione by the young George Frideric Handel is one of the little-known treasures of Baroque vocal music. The arias and ensembles are not only full of wonderful melodies, but convey an intensity that is more associated with the opera house. This performance from 2014 is conducted by one of the few female guests on the podium of the Berliner Philharmoniker: the Early music specialist Emmanuelle Haïm.

  31 Oct 2014

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Emmanuelle Haïm

  Topi Lehtipuu, Camilla Tilling, Sonia Prina, Christiane Karg, Christopher Purves

  • George Frideric Handel
    La resurrezione (Resurrection), oratorio, HWV 47

    Topi Lehtipuu Tenor (San Giovanni), Camilla Tilling Soprano (Angelo), Sonia Prina Contralto (Maria Cleofe), Christiane Karg Soprano (Maddalena), Christopher Purves Baritone (Lucifero)

  • free

    Interview
    Emmanuelle Haïm in conversation with Jonathan Kelly

  Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel’s “La resurrezione” Go to concert

• “Late Night” concert with Patricia Kopatchinskaja

  Patricia Kopatchinskaja, born to a Moldovan family of musicians, is a bundle of energy, as anyone who has ever experienced the passionate bowing style of the violinist in concert can confirm. In this Late Night concert from September 2014, she performs – a real discovery – the expressive music of Shostakovich’s student Galina Ustvolskaya and treasures of Early music.

  13 Sep 2014
  Late Night at the Philharmonie

  • Galina Ustvolskaya
    Sonata for Violin and Piano

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja Violin, Markus Hinterhäuser Piano

  • Music from the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance for baroque violin and treble viol

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja Baroque violin, Laurence Dreyfus Treble viol

  • Galina Ustvolskaya
    Duet for Violin and Piano

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja Violin, Markus Hinterhäuser Piano

  “Late Night” concert with Patricia Kopatchinskaja Go to concert

• Tugan Sokhiev and Hilary Hahn

  Hilary Hahn caused a sensation in the music world at the end of the 1990s as a young violinist who enthralled audiences not only with her perfect technique, but also with her consummate musicianship and creative powers. In this performance of Vieuxtemps’s absurdly virtouso Violin Concerto No. 4, she is accompanied by Tugan Sokhiev who also conducts Tchaikovsky’s rarely heard Manfred Symphony in the second part of the concert.

  31 May 2014

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Tugan Sokhiev

  Hilary Hahn

  • Henri Vieuxtemps
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 in D minor, op. 31

    Hilary Hahn Violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande

    Hilary Hahn Violin

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Manfred, symphony in B minor, after Lord Byron’s poem, op. 58

  • free

    Interview
    Hilary Hahn in conversation with Albrecht Mayer

  Tugan Sokhiev and Hilary Hahn Go to concert

• Bach’s “St John Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  Following their acclaimed performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars also presented a staged version of the St John Passion in February 2014. The concert, which struck a balance between contemplation and dramatic power, received standing ovations and was judged by the press to be a “new Easter miracle”. Mark Padmore as the Evangelist heads a spectacular ensemble of singers.

  01 Mar 2014

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St John Passion, BWV 245

    Camilla Tilling Soprano, Magdalena Kožená Mezzo-Soprano, Mark Padmore Tenor (Evangelist), Topi Lehtipuu Tenor (Arias), Roderick Williams Baritone (Jesus), Christian Gerhaher Baritone (Pilatus, Petrus), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master, Peter Sellars Staging

  • free

    Interview
    Sir Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars in conversation with Andy King-Dabbs

  Bach’s “St John Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars Go to concert

• Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with the Berliner Barock Solisten

  The Berlin Baroque Soloists always inspire their audiences with the “brilliance, cohesion and sensitivity of their interpretations” (Der Tagesspiegel). In this concert from December 2013, they look back on the old year with a performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – with the Philharmoniker’s concertmaster Daishin Kashimoto as the soloist. There are also works by Arcangelo Corelli, including the famous “Christmas Concerto”.

  12 Dec 2013

  Berlin Baroque Soloists
  Bernhard Forck

  Bernhard Forck, Daishin Kashimoto

  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Santa Beatrice d’Este: Sinfonia in D minor

  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Sonata a quattro for strings and continuo in G minor

  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Sonata a quattro for trumpet, two violins and continuo in D major (version for recorder, two violins and continuo)

    Saskia Fikentscher Recorder

  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Sonata da camera a tre for two violins and continuo in G major, op. 2 no. 12 Ciacona

  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6 no. 8 “Christmas Concerto” (1725 version for strings, two recorders and continuo)

    Saskia Fikentscher Recorder, Susann Seegers Recorder

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), concertos for violin, strings and basso continuo, op. 8

    Daishin Kashimoto Violin

  Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with the Berliner Barock Solisten Go to concert

• Anniversary concert “50 years of the Berlin Philharmonie”

  The Berlin Philharmonie is an icon of classical music – a wonderful auditorium with outstanding acoustics, whose visionary architect inspired many subsequent concert halls all over the world. In October 2013, the Philharmonie celebrated the 50th anniversary of its opening. The Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle and a host of celebrity guests celebrated this anniversary with a spectacular gala concert on the theme of “spatial music”.

  20 Oct 2013
  Gala Concert: 50 years of the Philharmonie – Spatial Sounds

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Mitsuko Uchida

  • Giovanni Gabrieli
    Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12 (1597)

  • Greeting words

    Klaus Wowereit Governing Mayor of Berlin, Manfred Erhardt Chairman of the Friends of the Berliner Philharmoniker e. V., Martin Hoffmann General Manager of the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation

  • Wolfgang Rihm
    IN-SCHRIFT 2 (première)

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

  • Ludwig van Beethoven · György Kurtág
    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 “Sonata quasi una fantasia”: 1. Adagio sostenuto · Kurtág: ... quasi una fantasia ... for piano and instruments dispersed in space

    Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Mitsuko Uchida Piano, Duncan Ward Rehearsal Conductor

  • Hector Berlioz
    Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, op. 15

  • free

    Interview
    The opening of the Berlin Philharmonie in 1963 – recollections of Rudolf Weinsheimer

  Anniversary concert “50 years of the Berlin Philharmonie” Go to concert

• Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars

  Bach’s St Matthew Passion in the staging by Peter Sellars is one of the landmarks of the Simon Rattle era with the Berliner Philharmoniker. In this haunting version, Bach’s monumental work is not only explored from a new perspective; in a way never seen before, the Philharmonie itself proved to be a great venue for staged performances. This recording comes from the second series of performances in October 2013.

  19 Oct 2013

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Camilla Tilling, Magdalena Kožená, Mark Padmore, Topi Lehtipuu, Christian Gerhaher, Eric Owens, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey, Peter Sellars

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Part 1

    Camilla Tilling Soprano, Magdalena Kožená Mezzo-Soprano, Mark Padmore Tenor (Evangelist), Topi Lehtipuu Tenor (Arias), Christian Gerhaher Baritone (Christ), Eric Owens Baritone (Arias), Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin Chorus Master, Simon Halsey Chorus Master, Peter Sellars Staging

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Part 2

    Camilla Tilling Soprano, Magdalena Kožená Mezzo-Soprano, Mark Padmore Tenor (Evangelist), Topi Lehtipuu Tenor (Arias), Christian Gerhaher Baritone (Christ), Eric Owens Baritone (Arias), Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master, Peter Sellars Staging

  • free

    Interview
    Bach’s "St. Matthew Passion": an introduction by Simon Halsey

  • free

    Interview
    Peter Sellars in conversation with Mark Padmore

  Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars Go to concert

• Works of the early Classical period with Reinhard Goebel

  The music from the transitional period between the Baroque and the First Viennese School is often considered to be charming, but innocuous. The fact that this judgement is wrong can be heard in this concert with Reinhard Goebel, who conducts works by Jean-Fery Rebel, Christian Cannabich and Johann Christian Bach, all of whom experiment intriguingly with sounds and effects. The programme also includes W.A. Mozart’s no less original Notturno for four orchestras from the generation that followed.

  04 Oct 2013

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Reinhard Goebel

  • Jean-Féry Rebel
    Les Éléments, suite for orchestra

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Notturno for 4 orchestras in D major, K. 286

  • Christian Cannabich
    Symphony for 2 orchestras in C major

  • Johann Christian Bach
    Amadis de Gaule, opera: Overture · Suite

  • free

    Interview
    Reinhard Goebel in conversation with Raimar Orlovsky

  Works of the early Classical period with Reinhard Goebel Go to concert

• Simon Rattle conducts Beethoven and Mendelssohn at the Waldbühne

  Photo: Tama Meyer / EuroArts

  “Be embraced, you millions!” says Ludwig van Beethoven rapturously to the whole of mankind in his Ninth Symphony. This global message is particularly impressively conveyed in this 2013 concert from the Berlin Waldbühne – in front of an audience of over 20,000 people. Simon Rattle conducted this memorable evening, and the soloist in Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is Christian Tetzlaff.

  22 Jun 2013
  From the Berlin Waldbühne

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Christian Tetzlaff, Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joseph Kaiser, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Rundfunkchor Berlin

  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Violin Concerto in E minor

    Christian Tetzlaff Violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005: Largo

    Christian Tetzlaff Violin

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 9 in D minor with Final Chorus “Ode to Joy“

    Camilla Tilling Soprano, Nathalie Stutzmann Contralto, Joseph Kaiser Tenor, Dimitry Ivashchenko Bass, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • Paul Lincke
    Berliner Luft

  Simon Rattle conducts Beethoven and Mendelssohn at the Waldbühne Go to concert

• Paavo Järvi conducts Beethoven and Hindemith

  Photo: Prague Spring Festival / Zdeněk Chrapek

  This concert with Paavo Järvi offers many fresh perspectives. Beethoven’s First Symphony sounds as bright and new as if the composer had just written it. Järvi also presents Paul Hindemith’s somewhat neglected Violin Concerto, whose appeal lies in its originality and a dark, Romantic tone. Frank Peter Zimmermann is ideally matched for the sometimes swirling, sometimes rapturous solo part.

  13 Apr 2013

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Paavo Järvi

  Frank Peter Zimmermann

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 21

  • Paul Hindemith
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

    Frank Peter Zimmermann Violin

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: Preludio

    Frank Peter Zimmermann Violin

  • Jean Sibelius
    Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, op. 82

  • free

    Interview
    Paavo Järvi on his work with the Berliner Philharmoniker

  Paavo Järvi conducts Beethoven and Hindemith Go to concert

• A Vivaldi evening with Andrea Marcon and soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker

  The music of Antonio Vivaldi is full of Venetian magic – spirited and charming, but also virtuoso and innovative. Andrea Macon is one of the most renowned interpreters of Vivaldi, and here devotes an entire concert to his music – with many musicians from the Berliner Philharmoniker at his side as soloists. The concert closes with Vivaldi’s brilliant “Gloria”, one of the most exhilarating sacred choral works there is.

  13 Oct 2012

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Andrea Marcon

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Concerto for solo violin, two oboes, two horns, timpani, strings and continuo in D major, RV 562a

    Sarah Willis Horn, Andreas Buschatz Violin, Albrecht Mayer Oboe, Martin Owen Horn, Andreas Wittmann Oboe

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Concerto for solo violin, solo oboe, two recorders, two oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo in G minor, RV 576

    Albrecht Mayer Oboe, Anna Fusek Recorder, Andreas Buschatz Violin, Daniele Damiano Bassoon, Giulia Genini Recorder

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Concerto for transverse flute, strings and continuo in G minor, RV 439 “La notte”

    Emmanuel Pahud Transverse Flute

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Concerto for solo violin, solo cello, two oboes, two horns, bassoon, strings and continuo in F major, RV 569

    Sarah Willis Horn, Andreas Buschatz Violin, Albrecht Mayer Oboe, Andreas Wittmann Oboe, Martin Löhr Cello, Martin Owen Horn, Daniele Damiano Bassoon

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Gloria in D major, RV 589

    Lisa Larsson Soprano, Marina Prudenskaja Mezzo-Soprano, RIAS Kammerchor, Denis Comtet Chorus Master

  • free

    Interview
    Andrea Marcon in conversation with Albrecht Mayer

  A Vivaldi evening with Andrea Marcon and soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker Go to concert

• Cameron Carpenter at the organ of the Berlin Philharmonie

  With artistic ease, he lets his toes and heels dance over the pedals (sometimes simultaneously), while his hands move over the manuals at lightning speed: Cameron Carpenter pushes the limits of what the organ can do in terms of forces of sound and colour. In September 2012, his qualities were revealed in a spectacular concert on the Karl Schuke organ in the Berlin Philharmonie.

  24 Sep 2012

  • Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaac Albéniz, Cameron Carpenter, Richard Wagner, Charles Ives and Franz Liszt

  • free

    Interview
    Cameron Carpenter and Sarah Willis introduce the organ of the Berlin Philharmonie

  Cameron Carpenter at the organ of the Berlin Philharmonie Go to concert

• The Berlin Baroque Soloists with an Anglo-Italian evening

  “A perfect blend of ‘modern’ playing with ‘historical’ awareness,” was how the magazine Gramophone described the Berlin Baroque Soloists, which counts members of the Berliner Philharmoniker among its recruits. In this concert, they explore the fascinating relationship between English and Italian composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The performers include the tenor Mark Padmore singing arias by George Frideric Handel.

  21 Mar 2012

  Berlin Baroque Soloists
  

  Bernhard Forck, Mark Padmore

  • Henry Purcell
    Overture for strings and continuo in G major, Z 770

    Bernhard Forck Violin and Direction

  • George Frideric Handel
    Samson, oratorio, HWV 57: Arias

    Mark Padmore Tenor, Bernhard Forck Violin, Direction

  • Charles Avison
    Concerto Grosso No. 7 in G minor (after Domenico Scarlatti)

    Bernhard Forck Violin and Direction

  • George Frideric Handel
    Samson, oratorio, HWV 57: Excerpts

    Mark Padmore Tenor, Bernhard Forck Violin and Direction

  • George Frideric Handel
    Jephtha, oratorio, HWV 70: Excerpts

    Mark Padmore Tenor, Bernhard Forck Violin and Direction

  • Francesco Geminiani
    Concerto Grosso in E minor, op. 3 no. 3

    Bernhard Forck Violin and Direction

  • George Frideric Handel
    Jephtha, oratorio, HWV 70: Excerpts

    Mark Padmore Tenor, Bernhard Forck Violin and Direction

  • free

    Interview
    Mark Padmore and Bernhard Forck in conversation and in rehearsal

  The Berlin Baroque Soloists with an Anglo-Italian evening Go to concert

• Christian Thielemann and Albrecht Mayer with works by Strauss and Bruckner

  Photo: Monika Rittershaus

  Christian Thielemann’s international fame rests not least on his highly acclaimed interpretations of Bruckner. In this concert, he conducts the composer’s most popular work, the Fourth Symphony. As the epithet Romantic implies, Bruckner here creates a vision of a better past. Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto which opens the concert has a similarly nostalgic flavour. The soloist is Albrecht Mayer.

  04 Mar 2012

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Christian Thielemann

  Albrecht Mayer

  • Richard Strauss
    Concerto for Oboe and small Orchestra in D major, o. op. AV 144

    Albrecht Mayer Oboe

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Cantata, BWV 156: Sinfonia

  • Anton Bruckner
    Symphony No. 4 in E flat major “Romantic” (1878/80 version)

  • free

    Interview
    Albrecht Mayer on the oboe concerto by Richard Strauss

  • free

    Interview
    Christian Thielemann on Strauss’s Oboe Concerto and Bruckner’s Fourth

  Christian Thielemann and Albrecht Mayer with works by Strauss and Bruckner Go to concert

• Family concert: Autumn Sounds

  Almost everyone knows Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and can hum along to the melodies of this cycle. But who knows exactly what scenes and stories the composer has depicted in these violin concertos? At this Family Concert with the Philharmoniker’s violinist Aleksandar Ivić, the examples of Autumn and Winter reveal the wealth of detail hidden in the score.

  29 Oct 2011
  Family concert

  Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
  

  Aleksandar Ivić

  • free

    Antonio Vivaldi
    Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), concertos for violin, strings and basso continuo, op. 8: Autumn · Winter (with introductions in German)

    Aleksandar Ivić Presentation and Violin

  Family concert: Autumn Sounds Go to concert

• Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”

  Photo: Kai Bienert

  The choirs stretched into the audience galleries when Simon Rattle conducted a much applauded and cheered performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand in 2011. Even the premiere in 1910 attended by Siegfried Wagner, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann was the most triumphant success in the life of Mahler. And the composer himself felt the symphony to be “the grandest thing I have done yet”.

  18 Sep 2011

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  Rundfunkchor Berlin, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin

  • Antonio Lotti
    Crucifixus in C minor for chorus of eight voices

    Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • Thomas Tallis
    “Spem in alium”, 40-part motet

    Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • Gustav Mahler
    Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand”

    Erika Sunnegårdh Soprano, Susan Bullock Soprano, Anna Prohaska Soprano, Lilli Paasikivi Soprano, Nathalie Stutzmann Contralto, Johan Botha Tenor, David Wilson-Johnson Baritone, John Relyea Baritone, MDR Rundfunkchor , Howard Arman Chorus Master, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • free

    Interview
    Sir Simon Rattle on Mahlers Symphony No. 8

  Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” Go to concert

• Dance project: Season’s Whims

  The appeal of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s music lies in its Baroque gracefulness, but at the same time, it is full of exciting expressiveness and variety. In addition to sarabandes, marches and chaconnes, there’s thunder, storms and the sounds of war – perfect for a student ballet, as the Berliner Philharmoniker demonstrated in their Education Programme. The conductor of this performance from 2011 is the Early music specialist, Emanuelle Haïm.

  26 Jun 2011
  Dance project from the Arena, Berlin

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Emmanuelle Haïm

  • free

    Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Season’s Whims

    Vivienne Newport Choreographer

  Dance project: Season’s Whims Go to concert

• Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel and Rameau

  Photo: Stephan Rabold

  In this recording from June 2011, the Early music specialist Emmanuelle Haïm conducts works by Handel, including his famous Water Music, plus pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau who is still too little known outside France. The two suites, compiled especially for this concert from the composer’s stage works, demonstrate not only Baroque gracefulness but also the originality of Rameau, who experimented masterfully with sounds and effects.

  23 Jun 2011

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Emmanuelle Haïm

  • George Frideric Handel
    Concerto grosso in G major, HWV 319

  • George Frideric Handel
    Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350

  • George Frideric Handel
    Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Suite No. 1 from Stage Works

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Suite No. 2 from Stage Works

  • free

    Interview
    Emmanuelle Haïm in conversation with Catherine Milliken

  Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel and Rameau Go to concert

• Vladimir Jurowski conducts Mahler and Stravinsky

  Gustav Mahler’s Das klagende Lied, conducted here by Vladimir Jurowski, combines horror and fantasy. The composer himself was convinced that in this work he had found his own style. And indeed, although there is a wealth of forest murmurs and leitmotifs in the best Wagner style, there is also that difficult to describe but unmistakeable Mahler sound.

  12 Jun 2011

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Vladimir Jurowski

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Chorale Variations on “Vom Himmel hoch da komm‘ ich her” (arr. for choir and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky)

    Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • Igor Stravinsky
    Requiem Canticles for soloists, chorus and orchestra

    Iris Vermillion Contralto, Markus Brück Baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • Gustav Mahler
    Das klagende Lied

    Christine Schäfer Soprano, Iris Vermillion Contralto, Michael König Tenor, Markus Brück Baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master

  • free

    Interview
    Simon Halsey on Mahler, Bach, Stravinsky

  Vladimir Jurowski conducts Mahler and Stravinsky Go to concert

• Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

  Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony owes its popularity to its Adagietto, a movement full of tenderness, dreaming and hopeful longing. Yet it is easy to overlook the many facets of the other movements: the vehemence of the second and third movements, and the exuberant high spirits of the finale. The press described this performance from 2011 with Simon Rattle simply as “breath-taking” and “deeply moving”.

  07 Apr 2011

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  • Henry Purcell
    Funeral Music for Queen Mary

    RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann Chorus Master

  • Gustav Mahler
    Symphony No. 5

  • free

    Interview
    Sir Simon Rattle on performing Mahler’s symphonies (Part 2)

  Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony Go to concert

• From Bach to Beethoven with Giovanni Antonini

  This concert from 2010 features Bach’s splendid Orchestral Suite No. 1 for only the second time in the history of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Giovanni Antonini, one of the most prominent conductors of the Early music movement, takes the work as the starting point for a musical journey which takes us from the Baroque to early Classical music to Beethoven’s Second Symphony: a fascinating panorama of expressiveness and emotion.

  23 Sep 2010

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Giovanni Antonini

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Symphony in F major, Wq 183 no. 3

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 36

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    Interview
    Giovanni Antonini in conversation with Raimar Orlovsky

  From Bach to Beethoven with Giovanni Antonini Go to concert

• András Schiff plays Bach, Mozart and Haydn

  In the words of one critic, András Schiff is “a magician of sound who breathes life into works, and who upholds the almost forgotten ideal of piano playing”. In this recording from 2010, he takes on the roles of both soloist and conductor in two austerely bleak D minor piano concertos by Bach and Mozart plus Joseph Haydn’s Military Symphony, a work which also takes its listeners close to the abyss with idyllic scenes which time and again are interrupted by the horrors of war.

  17 Apr 2010

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir András Schiff

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052

    Sir András Schiff Piano

  • Joseph Haydn
    Symphony No. 100 in G major “Military”

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Don Giovanni: Overture · Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D minor, K. 466

    Sir András Schiff Piano

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    Interview
    András Schiff in conversation with Jonathan Kelly

  András Schiff plays Bach, Mozart and Haydn Go to concert

• Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars

  Sir Sir Simon Rattle left no doubt: For him the performance of the St. Matthew Passion, which he realised with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin in early 2010, was “the most important thing we’ve ever done here”. Critics around the world agreed with him and praised both the semi-staged production by the American star director Peter Sellars and the outstanding musical performances.

  11 Apr 2010

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Part 1

    Mark Padmore Tenor (Evangelist), Christian Gerhaher Bass (Jesus), Camilla Tilling Soprano, Magdalena Kožená Mezzo-Soprano (Musician), Topi Lehtipuu Tenor (Arias), Thomas Quasthoff Baritone (Arias), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey Chorus Master, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Kai-Uwe Jirka Chorus Master, Peter Sellars Staging

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Part 2

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    Interview
    Peter Sellars in conversation with Simon Halsey

  Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” with Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars Go to concert

• Ton Koopman conducts Bach

  Ton Koopman – one of the great interpreters of Early Music – admires Johann Sebastian Bach more than any other composer because in his music, “mind and emotion are in a fantastic balance”. And so Bach – in addition to Haydn’s Symphony No. 98 – is also the focus of this concert. We hear courtly splendour in the Orchestral Suite No. 3 and the glories of Baroque vocal music in his Magnificat and the motet “Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden”.

  30 Jan 2010

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Ton Koopman

  RIAS Kammerchor

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

  • Joseph Haydn
    Symphony No. 98 in B flat major

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    “Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden”, motet, BWV 230

    RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann Chorus Master

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Magnificat in D major, BWV 243

    Klara Ek Soprano, Rachel Frenkel Mezzo-Soprano, Ingeborg Danz Contralto, Werner Güra Tenor, Klaus Mertens Bass, RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann Chorus Master

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    Interview
    Works by Bach and Haydn: An introduction by Ton Koopman

  Ton Koopman conducts Bach Go to concert

• Peter Eötvös conducts Zimmermann’s “Requiem for a Young Poet”

  Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Requiem for a Young Poet from 1969 is a heart-wrenching and unconventional mass for the dead. Written for two speakers, vocalists, chorus, orchestra and tape, it reveals a powerful, multifaceted panorama of the half century that comprised Zimmermann’s life before he committed suicide in 1970. The conductor of this powerful performance from 2009 is Peter Eötvös, one of Zimmermann’s students.

  25 Apr 2009

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Peter Eötvös

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Chorale Preludes “Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist” and “Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele”

  • Richard Wagner
    Siegfried Idyll

  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    Requiem for a Young Poet

    Caroline Stein Soprano, Claudio Otelli Baritone, Michael Rotschopf Speaker, Thomas Wittmann Speaker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, James Wood Chorus Master, MDR Rundfunkchor , Howard Arman Chorus Master, Philipp Ahmann Chorus Master, Celso Antunes Chorus Master, João Rafael Sound Direction

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    Interview
    Peter Eötvös on Zimmermann’s “Requiem für einen jungen Dichter”

  Peter Eötvös conducts Zimmermann’s “Requiem for a Young Poet” Go to concert

• Sir Simon Rattle conducts “Carmina Burana” at the 2004 New Year’s Eve Concert

  What could be more obvious than to ring in a new year with an appeal to the goddess Fortuna? And this is precisely what happened on 31 December 2004, when Sir Simon Rattle conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana – a bright musical panorama which wondrously unites the most diverse spheres of expression: the archaic and the modern, grandiosity and humour, and the finest sophistication with raw power.

  31 Dec 2004
  New Year’s Eve Concert

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Leonore Overture No. 3 in C major, op. 72

  • Carl Orff
    Carmina burana

    Sally Matthews Sopran, Lawrence Brownlee Tenor, Christian Gerhaher Baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin

  • George Frideric Handel
    Messiah: “Halleluja”

  Sir Simon Rattle conducts “Carmina Burana” at the 2004 New Year’s Eve Concert Go to concert

• Daniel Barenboim conducts dance music from all round the world

  In 2001, the Berliner Philharmoniker and conductor Daniel Barenboim celebrated New Year’s Eve with dance music from three centuries, revealing the lively variety of the genre, beginning with a Gavotte by Bach, and music by Mozart, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky to the present with the catchy, jazz-inspired Tico Tico. And it could hardly be a concert of dance music without the waltz king Johann Strauss – otherwise a rare guest in the Philharmonie.

  31 Dec 2001
  New Year’s Eve Concert

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Daniel Barenboim

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Gavotte I and II

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Divertimento in D major, K. 334: Menuetto

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Rondo for piano and orchestra in D major, K. 382

    Daniel Barenboim Klavier

  • Giuseppe Verdi
    Aida: Dance of the Little Moorish Slaves

  • Antonín Dvořák
    Slavonic Dance in G minor, op. 46 no. 8

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    The Nutcracker, op. 71: Waltz of the Flowers

  • Jean Sibelius
    Valse triste, op. 44

  • Johann Strauss II
    Emperor Waltz, op. 437

  • Zoltán Kodály
    Dances of Galánta

  • Horacio Salgán
    A fuego lento

  • Zequinha de Abréu
    Tico Tico

  • Johann Strauss II
    Thunder and Lightning, op. 324

  • José Carlí
    El Firulete

  • Johannes Brahms
    Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor

  Daniel Barenboim conducts dance music from all round the world Go to concert

• Simon Rattle conducts Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” in 1993

  It is no exaggeration to claim that this live recording from November 1993 is a document of historic importance, for it is the first visual and acoustic record of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s work with the man who was to become their chief conductor. The performance shows a young Simon Rattle who inspires the orchestra to perceptive interpretations of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s suite Les Boréades.

  08 Nov 1993

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Sir Simon Rattle

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Les Boréades, ballet suite

  • Hector Berlioz
    Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

  Simon Rattle conducts Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” in 1993 Go to concert

• Kurt Sanderling conducts Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns

  Kurt Sanderling was one of a group of legendary conductors that included Sergiu Celibidache, Georg Solti and Günter Wand, all of whom were born in 1912. For the present concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1992, he chose two 19th-century masterpieces: Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, in which the brilliant soloist was the young Yefim Bronfman, and Tchaikovsky’s impassioned Fourth Symphony, one of Sanderling’s calling cards.

  08 Jun 1992

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Kurt Sanderling

  Yefim Bronfman

  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, op. 22

    Yefim Bronfman piano

  • Domenico Scarlatti
    Sonata in C minor, K. 11 (L. 352)

    Yefim Bronfman piano

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36

  Kurt Sanderling conducts Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns Go to concert

• Karajan conducts Bach

  Although Herbert von Karajan was a great admirer of Bach, his interpretations of the composer’s music were rarely recorded on video. Here we present two of these productions with the Third Brandenburg Concerto and the Orchestral Suite No. 2, which Karajan conducts from the harpsichord. The soloist in the Suite is Karlheinz Zöller, who was principal flautist with the Philharmoniker for many years. The recordings were made in Paris in 1967/68.

  1967–1968
  From the Salle Pleyel, Paris

  Berliner Philharmoniker
  Herbert von Karajan

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

  Karajan conducts Bach Go to concert