Live concerts
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Wagner and Schumann at the Waldbühne
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.
From the Berlin Waldbühne
Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo DudamelRobert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 97 “Rhenish”Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold): Einzug der Götter in Walhall (Entry of the Gods into Valhalla) (concert version)Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods): Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried’s Rhine Journey) and Trauermarsch (Funeral March) (concert version)Richard Wagner
Siegfried: Waldweben (Forest Murmurs) (concert version)Richard Wagner
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie): Walkürenritt (Ride of the Valkyries) (concert version)
To open the season: Simon Rattle conducts Haydn’s “Creation”
Simon Rattle is one of the outstanding Haydn conductors of our time. To open his last season as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, he performs Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, which combines groundbreaking harmonies, humorous tone painting and powerful choruses to form a spectacular cosmic panorama. The excellent ensemble of soloists includes the tenor Mark Padmore – the orchestra’s Artist in Residence this season.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleGenia Kühmeier, Mark Padmore, Florian Boesch
Georg Friedrich Haas
ein kleines symphonisches Gedicht – für Wolfgang, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation PremièreJoseph Haydn
The Creation Hob. XXI:2Genia Kühmeier soprano, Mark Padmore tenor, Florian Boesch baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master
Susanna Mälkki and Gil Shaham
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 – soloist: Gil Shaham – is in the tradition of Beethoven and Brahms, but also experiments with the twelve-tone technique, while Jean Sibelius’s Second Symphony merges echoes of Tchaikovsky with innovative form, and Ferruccio Busoni’s Tanz-Walzer conjures up the atmosphere of the coffee house.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Susanna MälkkiGil Shaham
Ferruccio Busoni
Tanz-Walzer for orchestra, op. 53Béla Bartók
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, Sz 112Gil Shaham violin
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43
Marek Janowski conducts Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony
Marek Janoswki is seen as the perfect embodiment of the Kapellmeister tradition and master of the late-Romantic repertoire, and this programme with Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony and Pfitzner’s Palestrina preludes highlights exactly these qualities. The special charm of both works is how they look to the past: Pfitzner portrays the world of the Renaissance, while Bruckner immerses himself in a medieval age full of knights and sounds of the forest.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Marek JanowskiHans Pfitzner
3 Orchestral Preludes from PalestrinaAnton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 in E flat major Romantic (2nd Version from 1878/1880)
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 blended with 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 No. 2.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Alain AltinogluMáté Szűcs
Maurice Ravel
Rhapsodie espagnoleBéla Bartók
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Sz 120 (Restoration and Orchestration by Csaba Erdélyi, 2016)Máté Szűcs viola
Claude Debussy
Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande arranged in form of a suite by Alain Altinoglu PremièreAlbert Roussel
Bacchus et Ariane, Orchestral Suite No. 2
Daniele Gatti conducts Hindemith and Brahms
In the nineteenth century, many regarded the symphony as obsolete. However, the genre did indeed continue to be impressively alive, as Daniele Gatti, chief conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, shows in this concert. The works are Johannes Brahms’s lyrical and cantabile yet highly innovative Second Symphony, and Paul Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler, a sumptuous-sounding play on Baroque forms.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniele GattiPaul Hindemith
Symphony: Mathis der MalerJohannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73
Simon Rattle with Mitsuko Uchida and Amihai Grosz
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleMitsuko Uchida, Amihai Grosz
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B flat major, K. 595Mitsuko Uchida piano
William Walton
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (Revised Version from 1962)Amihai Grosz viola
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János Suite
Simon Rattle conducts Janáček’s “The Cunning Little Vixen”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleSir Gerald Finley, Angela Denoke, Lucy Crowe
Leoš Janáček
Příhody lišky Bystroušky (The Cunning Little Vixen)Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone, N. N. contralto, Burkhard Ulrich tenor, Sir Hanno Müller-Brachmann baritone, Angela Denoke soprano, Lucy Crowe soprano, Sir Willard White bass, Anna Lapkovskaja mezzo-soprano, Vocalconsort Berlin, David Cavelius chorus master, Vocal Heroes Children's Choirs, Peter Sellars stage direction
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Brahms’s “A German Requiem”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Yannick Nézet-SéguinRundfunkchor Berlin
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Heilig, Cantata for solo contralto, 2 mixed choirs and 2 orchestras, Wq 217Wiebke Lehmkuhl contralto, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45Hanna-Elisabeth Müller soprano, Markus Werba baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master
Ton Koopmann conducts Bach’s Mass in B minor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ton KoopmanRIAS Kammerchor
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV 232Lenneke Ruiten soprano, Wiebke Lehmkuhl contralto, Tilman Lichdi tenor, Klaus Mertens bass, RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle chorus master
Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky and Rachmaninov
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleIgor Stravinsky
Petrushka (revised Version from 1947)Unsuk Chin · Berliner Philharmoniker
New Work commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation PremièreSergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 44
An invitation from the Vocal Heroes: Christmas singalong concert
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Vocal Heroes Sing-Along Concert for Advent
Vocal Heroes Children's Choirs
Bernard Haitink conducts Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
Berliner Philharmoniker
Bernard HaitinkGustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9
Herbert Blomstedt and Maria João Pires perform Mozart
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert BlomstedtMaria João Pires
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A major, K. 488Maria João Pires piano
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1st Version from 1873)
“Late Night” concert with works by Debussy and Messiaen
Sir Simon Rattle, Daishin Kashimoto, Ludwig Quandt, Wenzel Fuchs
Claude Debussy
Sonata for Violin and PianoSir Simon Rattle piano, Daishin Kashimoto violin
Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du tempsSir Simon Rattle piano, Daishin Kashimoto violin, Ludwig Quandt cello, Wenzel Fuchs clarinet
Christian Thielemann conducts Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Christian ThielemannRundfunkchor Berlin
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis in D major, op. 123Genia Kühmeier soprano, Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano, Daniel Behle tenor, Franz-Josef Selig bass, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Philipp Ahmann chorus master
Iván Fischer and Vilde Frang perform Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1
Berliner Philharmoniker
Iván FischerVilde Frang
Béla Bartók
Hungarian Peasant Songs for Orchestra, Sz 100Béla Bartók
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, Sz 36Vilde Frang violin
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61 (Excerpts, arranged in form of a suite by Iván Fischer)Mari Eriksmoen soprano, Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano, Ladies of the Philharmonia Choir Wien, Walter Zeh chorus master
New Year’s Eve concert with Simon Rattle and Joyce DiDonato
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleJoyce DiDonato
Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture, op. 92Igor Stravinsky
Pas de deux from Apollon musagèteRichard Strauss
Orchestral SongsJoyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Leonard Bernstein
3 Dance Episodes from On the TownLeonard Bernstein
Take Care of this HouseJoyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Dmitri Shostakovich
Suite from The Golden Age, op. 22a
Antonio Pappano and Véronique Gens
Berliner Philharmoniker
Antonio PappanoVéronique Gens
Maurice Ravel
Une barque sur l'Océan (Orchesterfassung)Maurice Ravel
Alborada del graciosoHenri Duparc
L'Invitation au voyage (Version for Orchestra)Véronique Gens soprano
Henri Duparc
Romance de Mignon (Version for Orchestra)Véronique Gens soprano
Henri Duparc
Chanson triste (Version for Orchestra)Véronique Gens soprano
Henri Duparc
Au Pays où se fait la guerre (Version for Orchestra)Véronique Gens soprano
Henri Duparc
Lamento (Version for Orchestra)Véronique Gens soprano
Modest Mussorgsky
St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain (Original Version from 1867)Alexander Skrjabin
Poème de l’extase, Symphonic Poem, op. 54
Seiji Ozawa conducts Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Seiji OzawaNoah Bendix-Balgley, Emily Fons
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A major, K. 219Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra in A minor, op. 28Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
Maurice Ravel
L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) Scenic PerformanceEmily Fons mezzo-soprano, Sir Paul Gay bass baritone, Yvonne Naef contralto, Kiera Duffy soprano, Marie Lenormand mezzo-soprano, Mathias Vidal tenor, Elliot Madore baritone, Kanae Fujitani soprano, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master, David Kneuss stage direction
Mariss Jansons and Daniil Trifonov perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Berliner Philharmoniker
Mariss JansonsDaniil Trifonov
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, op. 54Daniil Trifonov piano
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A major
Dima Slobodeniouk and Baiba Skride
Berliner Philharmoniker
Dima SlobodenioukBaiba Skride
Jean Sibelius
Tapiola, Symphonic Poem, op. 112Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C sharp minor, op. 129Baiba Skride violin
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 2 in D minor, op. 40
Zubin Mehta and Leonidas Kavakos
Berliner Philharmoniker
Zubin MehtaLeonidas Kavakos
Anton Webern
Passacaglia, op. 1Alban Berg
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra “To the Memory of an Angel”Leonidas Kavakos violin
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70
“Late Night” concert: Paul Whiteman’s great hits
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattlePaul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra – The Greatest Hits: Arrangements of Makin’ Whopee, Dardanella, My Blue Heaven, San, Sweet Sue, After You’ve Gone and other Songs
Zubin Mehta and Michael Barenboim
Berliner Philharmoniker
Zubin MehtaMichael Barenboim
Franz Schubert
Overture of the Incidental Music to Rosamunde, D 797Arnold Schoenberg
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 36Michael Barenboim violin
Maurice Ravel
La ValseMaurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Simon Rattle and Daniel Barenboim perform Bartók
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleDaniel Barenboim
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, op. 72Béla Bartók
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, Sz 83Daniel Barenboim piano
Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta, op. 60
Daniel Harding conducts “An Alpine Symphony”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel HardingSir Gerald Finley
Franz Schubert
„Wo bin ich?” – “O könnt’ ich, Allgewaltiger”, Recitative and Aria from Lazarus, oder: Die Feier der Auferstehung, D 689Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone
Franz Schubert
Prometheus, D 674 (orch. by Max Reger)Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone
Franz Schubert
Erlkönig, D 328 (orch. by Max Reger)Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone
Franz Schubert
Memnon, D 541 (orch. by Johannes Brahms)Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone
Franz Schubert
An Schwager Kronos, D 369 (orch. by Johannes Brahms)Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone
Franz Schubert
An die Musik, D 547 (orch. by Max Reger)Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone
Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op. 64
The Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo plays Strauss and Tchaikovsky
Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo
Masahiko TanakaOtto Nicolai
Overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor)Richard Strauss
Sinfonia domestica, op. 53Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and JulietMaki Ishii
Mono-Prism for Japanese drums and orchestra, op. 29
The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie with David Afkham and Steve Isserlis
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
David AfkhamSir Steven Isserlis
Olivier Messiaen
Les Offrandes oubliées, Méditation symphonique pour orchestreHenri Dutilleux
Tout un monde lointain ..., Cello ConcertoSir Steven Isserlis cello
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Simon Rattle conducts Wagner’s “Parsifal”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleStuart Skelton, Nina Stemme, Franz-Josef Selig, Evgeny Nikitin, Sir Gerald Finley
Richard Wagner
ParsifalStuart Skelton tenor, Nina Stemme soprano, Franz-Josef Selig bass baritone, Evgeny Nikitin bass baritone, Sir Gerald Finley bass baritone, Iwona Sobotka soprano, Kiandra Howarth soprano, Elisabeth Jansson mezzo-soprano, Mari Eriksmoen soprano, Ingeborg Gillebo mezzo-soprano, Kismara Pessatti mezzo-soprano, Neal Cooper tenor, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey chorus master
The National Youth Orchestra of Germany performs Britten’s “War Requiem”
Bundesjugendorchester
Thomas NeuhoffBenjamin Britten
War Requiem for Soloists, large Choir, Children’s Choir, large Orchestra and Chamber OrchestraBanu Böke soprano, James Gilchrist tenor, Erik Sohn baritone, Chor des Bach-Vereins Köln e.V., Kinderchor N. N.
Kirill Petrenko and Yuja Wang
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill PetrenkoYuja Wang
Anatolij Konstantinovic Ljadow
The Enchanted Lake, op. 62Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C major, op. 26Yuja Wang piano
Franz Schmidt
Symphony No. 4 in C major
A Mozart evening with Daniel Harding
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel HardingAndrew Staples, Georg Zeppenfeld, Lucy Crowe, Genia Kühmeier
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 32 in G major, K. 318Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Misero! O sogno – Aura, che intorno spiri, Recitative and Aria for Tenor and Orchestra, K. 431Andrew Staples tenor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Per questa bella mano , Aria for Bass, Double Bass obbligato and Orchestra, K. 612Georg Zeppenfeld bass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C minor, K. 427Lucy Crowe soprano, Genia Kühmeier soprano, Andrew Staples tenor, Georg Zeppenfeld bass, Swedish Radio Choir, Folke Alin chorus master
Alan Gilbert and Wenzel Fuchs perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Berliner Philharmoniker
Alan GilbertWenzel Fuchs
Thomas Adès
Three Studies from CouperinWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K. 622Wenzel Fuchs clarinet
Claude Debussy
Images pour orchestre
Paavo Järvi and Janine Jansen perform Sibelius’s Violin Concerto
Berliner Philharmoniker
Paavo JärviJanine Jansen
Jean Sibelius
Night Ride and Sunrise, Symphonic Poem, op. 55Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47Janine Jansen violin
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54
Tugan Sokhiev conducts the “Symphonie classique” and ”Pictures at an Exhibition”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Tugan SokhievYefim Bronfman
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25 Symphonie classiqueLudwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C minor, op. 37Yefim Bronfman piano
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel)
Simon Rattle conducts Schumann’s “Paradise and the Peri”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleSally Matthews, Mark Padmore, Anna Prohaska, Gerhild Romberger, Andrew Staples, Christian Gerhaher
Robert Schumann
Paradise and the Peri, op. 50Sally Matthews soprano, Mark Padmore tenor, Anna Prohaska soprano, Gerhild Romberger contralto, Andrew Staples tenor, Christian Gerhaher baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master
Simon Rattle conducts the completed Ninth Symphony of Anton Bruckner
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleHans Abrahamsen
Three Pieces for Orchestra, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation PremièreAnton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 with the completed performance version of the 4th Movement by Samale-Phillips-Cohrs-Mazzuca (1985-2008/rev. 2010)
Simon Rattle conducts Widmann, Lutosławski and Brahms
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleJörg Widmann
New Work commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation PremièreWitold Lutosławski
Symphony No. 3Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68
Simon Rattle’s farewell from the Berlin Philharmonie
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleGustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6
Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená at the Waldbühne
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleMagdalena Kožená
George Gershwin
Cuban OvertureGabriel Fauré
PavaneJoseph Canteloube (de Malaret)
Chants d’Auvergne (Selection)Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
Aram Chatschaturjan
Suite from GayanehOttorino Respighi
Pini di Roma
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