Familiar works heard anew: Musical metamorphoses
The idea of presenting something existing in a new form has given rise to an exciting variety of connections in the course of music history. Arrangements, quotations, homages and parodies attracted and still attract many composers today. How does a piano quartet by Brahms sound when played by an orchestra, how does Bizet’s opera Carmen sound as a violin fantasy, and how might Schubert’s last symphony sketches be continued? You can hear this in our playlist of musical metamorphoses.
Our recommendations
- “From the New World”: A trip to America with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Enigma Variations: Music with secret and cryptic messages
- The magic of dance: Ballet music with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Dmitri Shostakovich in his works
- Famous cello concertos: From the First Viennese School to the 20th century
- On the silver screen: Classical music in film