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Interview Archive
Show all 612Get to know the Berliner Philharmoniker’s guests in conversation.
- Augustin Hadelich in conversation with Raimar Orlovsky
- Paavo Järvi and Seong-Jin Cho in conversation with Stephan Koncz
- Paavo Järvi in conversation with Stephan Koncz
- Marie-Pierre Langlamet in conversation with Matthew Hunter
- Juanjo Mena in conversation with Joaquín Riquelme García
- Lahav Shani and Alisa Weilerstein in conversation with Allan Nilles
- Lahav Shani in conversation with Allan Nilles
- “Upbeat”: Wolfgang Rihm’s “IN-SCHRIFT”
- Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker talk about Anton Bruckner
- Jonathan Nott in conversation with Raphael Haeger
- Yuja Wang in conversation with Stefan Dohr
- Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
- Percussion in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony
- Alan Gilbert in conversation with Vincent Vogel
- Jörg Widmann and Stefan Dohr on Widmann’s new Horn Concerto
- Simon Rattle on Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Beatrice Rana in conversation with Matthew Hunter
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin in conversation with Matthew Hunter
- François-Xavier Roth and Vito Žuraj in conversation with Stanley Dodds
- François-Xavier Roth in conversation with Stanley Dodds
- “Upbeat” with Kirill Petrenko: Bedřich Smetana’s “Má vlast”
- Eun Sun Kim in conversation with Christoph Streuli
- “Schubert Marathon” – Part 1: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
- “Schubert Marathon” – Part 2: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
- “Schubert Marathon” – Part 3: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
- Vilde Frang in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
- Hannu Lintu in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
- Five questions for Nina Stemme
- Christian Thielemann in conversation with Sebastian Krunnies
- Lisa Batiashvili in conversation with Amihai Grosz
Work introductions
Show all 118Our work introductions offer you an easy starting point for selected pieces of music.
- “Upbeat”: Wolfgang Rihm’s “IN-SCHRIFT”
- Simon Rattle on Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony
- “Upbeat” with Kirill Petrenko: Bedřich Smetana’s “Má vlast”
- “Schubert Marathon” – Part 2: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
- “Schubert Marathon” – Part 1: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
- Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Christoph Streuli
- Lisa Batiashvili in conversation with Amihai Grosz
- Daniele Gatti in conversation with Wolfgang Talirz
- Ondřej Adámek on “Sinuous Voices”
- “Upbeat” with Kirill Petrenko: Alban Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra
- Herbert Blomstedt on Richard Strauss’s “Metamorphosen”
- Herbert Blomstedt on Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica”
- Max Reger’s “Mozart Variations” – an introduction with Malte Krasting
- Richard Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben” – an introduction with Malte Krasting
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony – an introduction with Meike Pfister
- Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto – an introduction with Meike Pfister
- Julia Wolfe’s Pretty – an introduction
- Lisa Streich’s ISHJÄRTA – an introduction
- Esa-Pekka Salonen on “Karawane”
- Paavo Järvi, Daishin Kashimoto and Toshio Hosokawa in conversation and in rehearsal
- Esa-Pekka Salonen and Olivier Latry on the Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra
- Susanne Stähr on Brahms’s Second Symphony
- Esa-Pekka Salonen on “Helix”
- Noah Bendix-Balgley on Mozart’s First Violin Concerto
- Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony – an introduction by Malte Krasting
- Simon Rattle on Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra
- Andrea Zietzschmann and Simon Rattle on a concert without an audience
- Herbert Blomstedt on Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony
- Berg and Beethoven – an introduction by Malte Krasting
- Peter Sellars talks about Bach’s “St John Passion”
Selected interviews
- Jonas Kaufmann in conversation with Jonathan Kelly
- Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Stefan Dohr
- John Adams in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
- Peter Sellars in conversation with Sarah Willis
- Simon Rattle talks about Beethoven’s symphonies
- Yuja Wang in conversation with Andreas Ottensamer
- Christian Gerhaher, Gijs Leenaars and Christian Thielemann about Brahms’s “Deutsches Requiem”
- The Fall of the Berlin Wall – Memories of Musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Hilary Hahn in conversation with Albrecht Mayer
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud
- “Carmen” at the Berlin Philharmonie
- Zubin Mehta on Bruckner’s Eighth: an introduction to the work with excerpts from rehearsals
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt in conversation with Olaf Wilhelmer
- Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini and Anna Prohaska on old and new musical friendships
- Christian Thielemann, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson on Richard Strauss
- Frank Peter Zimmermann in conversation with Christoph Streuli
- Janine Jansen and Daniel Harding in conversation with Sarah Willis
- Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Edicson Ruiz
- Sir Simon Rattle about Herbert von Karajan
