Live concerts

• 12:00: Welcome / brass and organ
  Works by Eugène Gigout and Alexandre Guilmant

  Brass Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Nathan Laube organ, Jan Schlichte timpani

• 12:30: Global Arabian Music Orchestra
  Traditional Arabic music

  Alaa Zouiten oud and direction, Alaa Zaitouna oud and direction, Valentina Bellanova ney, Shingo Masuda kanun, Sameh Zaitouna viola, Richard Müller double bass, Ahmad Niou riq, Muhammad Ra’fat percussion

• 13:00: Organ concert
  Works by Johannes Brahms, Henri Tomasi and Charles-Marie Widor

  Zofia Neugebauer (Karajan Academy) flute, Markus Mayr (Karajan Academy) trumpet, Nathan Laube organ

• 13:30: Antonio Vivaldi · Astor Piazzolla
  Vivaldi meets Piazzolla – Eight seasons

  Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker

• 15:30: Johannes Brahms
  Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68

  BE PHIL Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle conductor

• 16:30: The 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker
  surprise concert

• 17:45: Vocal Heroes
  sing-along concert

  Simon Halsey artistic director, Tobias Walenciak, Carolin Strecker, Johannes Wolff chorus masters, Helen Collyer piano, Andreas Ehelebe (Karajan Academy) bass, Paul Brenning beatboxing

• 18:30: Antonín Dvořák
  Slavonic Dances, op. 72 (selection)

  Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle conductor

• Hans Abrahamsen
  Three Pieces for Orchestra, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation Première

• Anton Bruckner
  Symphony No. 9 with the completed performance version of the 4th Movement by Samale-Phillips-Cohrs-Mazzuca (1985-2008/rev. 2010)

• Jörg Widmann
  New Work commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation Première

• Witold Lutosławski
  Symphony No. 3

• Johannes Brahms
  Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68

• Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No. 6

From the Berlin Waldbühne

• George Gershwin
  Cuban Overture

• Gabriel Fauré
  Pavane

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

  Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano

• Aram Chatschaturjan
  Gayane Suite No. 3: No. 5 Sabre Dance

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

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

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

• Ottorino Respighi
  Pini di Roma

• Paul Lincke
  Berliner Luft

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

• 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 Skrjabin
  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)