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.
Our recommendations
- Director of the perfect sound: Herbert von Karajan with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Female composers
- Popular Classical and Romantic works
- “Unanswered Questions”: Musical Modernism between 1910 and 1920
- Richard Strauss and his tone poems
- Beethoven Year 2020: The nine symphonies with Kirill Petrenko and others
- On the silver screen: Classical music in film
- Mozart’s most beautiful piano concertos
- Musical Sunrises: “Let there be light!”
- Famous cello concertos: From the First Viennese School to the 20th century
