Live concerts

Opening of the 2018/2019 season

• Richard Strauss
  Don Juan, op. 20

• Richard Strauss
  Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), op. 24

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92

• Pierre Boulez
  Cummings ist der Dichter for 16 solo voices or mixed choir and instruments

  ChorWerk Ruhr

• Maurice Ravel
  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major for the left hand

  Cédric Tiberghien piano

• György Ligeti
  Clocks and Clouds for 12-part female choir and orchestra

  ChorWerk Ruhr

• George Benjamin
  Palimpsests for orchestra

• Igor Stravinsky
  Symphonies d’instruments à vent (1947 version)

• Bernd Alois Zimmermann
  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

  Carolin Widmann violin

• Claude Debussy
  Images pour orchestre: No. 1 Gigues

• György Ligeti
  Lontano for large orchestra

• Claude Debussy
  Images pour orchestre: No. 3 Rondes de printemps

• György Ligeti
  Atmosphères

• Claude Debussy
  Images pour orchestre: No. 2 Ibéria

• Anton Bruckner
  Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

• Detlev Glanert
  Weites Land for orchestra

• Max Bruch
  Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, op. 88a

  Katia Labèque piano, Marielle Labèque piano

• Antonín Dvořák
  Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70

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

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

  Alban Gerhardt cello

• Jean Sibelius
  Lemminkäinen Suite, op. 22

• Antonín Dvořák
  The Golden Spinning-Wheel, op. 109

• Bohuslav Martinů
  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1

  Frank Peter Zimmermann violin

• Leoš Janáček
  Taras Bulba, Rhapsody for Orchestra

• Witold Lutosławski
  Concerto for Orchestra

• Johannes Brahms
  Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73

• Leonard Bernstein
  Divertimento for Orchestra

• Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No. 5

• Leonard Bernstein
  Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

  Tamara Mumford mezzo-soprano

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Symphony No. 5 D minor, op. 47

• Claude Debussy
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

• Sergei Prokofiev
  Cinderella, ballet, op. 87 (excerpts)

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Le Coq d’Or, suite

• Igor Stravinsky
  The Firebird Suite (version from 1919)

• Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection”

  Lucy Crowe soprano, Gerhild Romberger contralto, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig choir, Risto Joost chorus master

• Antonín Dvořák
  Legendes for Orchestra, op. 59: No. 6 Allegro con moto

• Antonín Dvořák
  Legendes for Orchestra, op. 59: No. 10 Andante

• Hugo Wolf
  Lieder after poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Harfenspieler I, Harfenspieler II and Harfenspieler III (orchestrated by Hugo Wolf)

  Christian Gerhaher baritone

• Hugo Wolf
  Lieder after poems by Eduard Mörike: Auf ein altes Bild, In der Frühe, Der Feuerreiter and Gesang Weyla’s (orchestrated by Hugo Wolf)

  Christian Gerhaher baritone

• Hugo Wolf
  Lieder after poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Der Rattenfänger and Anakreon’s Grab (orchestrated by Hugo Wolf)

  Christian Gerhaher baritone

• Franz Schubert
  Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 26 in D major, K. 537 "Coronation"

  Daniel Barenboim piano

• Maurice Ravel
  Rapsodie espagnole (orchestral version)

• Maurice Ravel
  Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)

• Maurice Ravel
  Pavane pour une infante défunte (orchestral version)

• Maurice Ravel
  Boléro

• Alexander Borodin
  Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances (original version with choir)

  Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Valery Borisov chorus master

• Sergei Rachmaninov
  Vesna (Spring), cantata for baritone, chorus and orchestra, op. 20

  N. N. baritone, Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Valery Borisov chorus master

• Sergei Prokofiev
  Alexander Nevsky, cantata for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra, op. 78

  Agunda Kulaeva mezzo-soprano, Choir of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Valery Borisov chorus master

• Richard Strauss
  Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus spoke Zarathustra), op. 30

• Franz Liszt
  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major

  Jewgenij Kissin piano

• Richard Wagner
  Rienzi: Overture

• Anna Thorvaldsdottir
  Metacosmos (European première)

• Sergei Prokofiev
  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, op. 63

  Lisa Batiashvili violin

• Richard Strauss
  Symphonia domestica, op. 53

• Anton Bruckner
  Mass No. 2 in E minor (2nd Version from 1882/1885)

  Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master

• Anton Bruckner
  Symphony No. 6 in A major

• Giuseppe Verdi
  Otello Concert performance

  N. N. tenor (Otello), Sonya Yoncheva soprano (Desdemona), Luca Salsi baritone (Jago), Anna Malavasi mezzo-soprano (Emilia), Francesco Demuro tenor (Cassio), Gregory Bonfatti tenor (Roderigo), Giovanni Furlanetto bass (Montano), Federico Sacchi bass (Lodovico), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Symphony No. 34 C major, K. 338

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Chamber Symphony in C minor, op. 110a (orch. Barshai)

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11 (version for string orchestra)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 K. 504 “Prague”

• Alexander Scriabin
  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F sharp minor, op. 20

  Daniil Trifonov piano

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Symphony No. 11 in G minor, op. 103 “The Year 1905”

From the Berlin Waldbühne

• Sergei Prokofiev
  Lieutenant Kije Suite, op. 60

• Maurice Ravel
  Shéhérazade, song cycle after Tristan Klingsor

  Marianne Crebassa mezzo-soprano

• Sergei Prokofiev
  Romeo and Juliet, ballet, op. 64 (arranged in the form of a suite by Tugan Sokhiev)