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Interview archive
Show all 665Get to know the Berliner Philharmoniker’s guests in conversation.
- “Upbeat”: Igor Stravinsky’s “Petrushka”
- Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Stephan Koncz
- Emmanuelle Haïm in conversation with Bruno Delepelaire
- Janine Jansen in conversation with Matthew Hunter
- Daniele Gatti in conversation with Aleksandar Ivić
- Thomas Guggeis in conversation with Stefan Dohr
- Maximilian Hornung in conversation with Tobias Reifland
- “Upbeat”: Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1
- Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker talk about Pierre Boulez
- Winrich Hopp in conversation with Tobias Möller
- Albrecht Mayer in conversation with Walter Küssner
- Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Walter Küssner
- Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Julia Gartemann
- Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Felix Kammerer
- Kazuki Yamada in conversation with Kotowa Machida
- Emmanuel Pahud in conversation with Kazuki Yamada
- Bruno Delepelaire in conversation with Sarah Willis
- Stéphane Denève in conversation with Sarah Willis
- Klaus Mäkelä in conversation with Vincent Vogel
- “Upbeat”: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9
- Sakari Oramo in conversation with Stefan Dohr
- Eleonora Buratto and Jonathan Tetelman in conversation with Matthew Hunter
- Himari in conversation with Helena Madoka Berg
- Jakub Hrůša in conversation with Knut Weber
- Joana Mallwitz in conversation with Eva-Maria Tomasi
- Dalia Stasevska in conversation with Sebastian Krunnies
- Marin Alsop in conversation with Allan Nilles
- Outi Tarkiainen about “Day Night Day”
- Miroslav Srnka about “Superorganisms”
- David Robertson in conversation with Albrecht Mayer
Work introductions
Show all 129Our work introductions offer you an easy starting point for selected pieces of music.
- “Upbeat”: Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1
- “Upbeat”: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9
- Outi Tarkiainen about “Day Night Day”
- Miroslav Srnka about “Superorganisms”
- Ludwig Quandt on Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen” Suite
- “Upbeat”: Sofia Gubaidulina’s “The wrath of God”
- Tugan Sokhiev on Lili Boulanger’s “D’un matin de printemps”
- Tugan Sokhiev on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1
- Tugan Sokhiev, Donghoon Shin and Amihai Grosz in conversation
- Herbert Blomstedt on Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
- “Upbeat”: Sergei Rachmaninov’s “Isle of the Dead”
- “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 1: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
- “Schubert Marathon” – Part 2: 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”
- Richard Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben” – an introduction with Malte Krasting
- Max Reger’s “Mozart Variations” – 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”
Selected interviews
- Jonas Kaufmann in conversation with Jonathan Kelly
- Lisa Batiashvili in conversation with Albrecht Mayer
- 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
