A conductor recommends: Susanna Mälkki’s highlights To mark her guest conducting appearance in May 2021, Susanna Mälkki has created a playlist of her personal concert highlights from our archive. It features music from the Finnish conductor’s native northern European region alongside symphonic repertoire by Beethoven, Mahler, Scriabin and Schoenberg. It includes four chief conductors of the Philharmoniker plus Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez, and Mälkkis compatriot Sakari Oramo.
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 “Choral” Herbert von Karajan Berliner Philharmoniker Gundula Janowitz Soprano Christa Ludwig Contralto Jess Thomas Tenor Walter Berry Bass Chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin Walter Hagen-Groll Chorus Master Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major Claudio Abbado Berliner Philharmoniker Igor Stravinsky Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) (concert performance) Pierre Boulez Berliner Philharmoniker Barbara Hannigan Soprano (Nightingale) Stephanie Weiss Mezzo-Soprano (Cook) Julia Faylenbogen Mezzo-Soprano (Death) Edgaras Montvidas Tenor (Fisherman) Roman Trekel Baritone (Emperor of China) Georg Zeppenfeld Bass (Chamberlain) Peter Rose Bass (Bonze) Jan Remmers Tenor (Japanese Ambassador) Wolfram Tessmer Baritone (Japanese Ambassador) Rundfunkchor Berlin (Tenants) Simon Halsey Chorus Master Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 5, op. 50 Herbert Blomstedt Berliner Philharmoniker Arnold Schoenberg Gurre-Lieder Sir Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker Soile Isokoski Soprano (Tove) Karen Cargill Mezzo-Soprano (Wood Dove) Stephen Gould Tenor (Waldemar) Burkhard Ulrich Tenor (Klaus-Narr) Lester Lynch Baritone (Peasant) Thomas Quasthoff Speaker KorVest Bergen Rundfunkchor Berlin MDR Rundfunkchor WDR Rundfunkchor Nicolas Fink Chorus Master Alexander Scriabin Le Poème de l’extase , op. 54 Kirill Petrenko Berliner Philharmoniker Paul Dukas La Péri , Poème dansé Kirill Petrenko Berliner Philharmoniker Jean Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite, op. 22 Sakari Oramo Berliner Philharmoniker