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Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Hector Berlioz wrote countless love letters to actress Harriet Smithson – none were ever answered. The Symphonie fantastique became the composer’s outlet: the depiction of an extreme love drama in which the lover is murdered and the murderer is executed. The conductor of the spectacular score here is Daniel Barenboim. The programme also includes the flute concertos by Ferruccio Busoni and Jacques Ibert – captivating music which is dynamic, transparent and surprising. The soloist is Emmanuel Pahud, principal flute of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
28 Nov 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel BarenboimEmmanuel Pahud
Jacques Ibert
Concerto for Flute and OrchestraEmmanuel Pahud flute
Ferruccio Busoni
Divertimento for Flute and Orchestra in B flat major, op. 52Emmanuel Pahud flute
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, op. 14- free
Interview
Emmanuel Pahud in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Marek Janowski and Noah Bendix-Balgley
Photo: Stephan Rabold
With this programme we commemorate Max Bruch, the 100th anniversary of whose death is remembered in 2020. Our 1st concertmaster, Noah Bendix-Balgley, is the soloist in this performance of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Marek Janowski. With its yearning opening movement and sparkling finale, this work became the composer’s most popular work. The second part of the concert is dedicated to Johannes Brahms, a contemporary of Bruch. His Serenade No. 2 is characterised by the dark, warm sound typical of Brahms and is considered a milestone on the composer’s path to the symphony.
03 Oct 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Marek JanowskiNoah Bendix-Balgley
Max Bruch
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor, op. 26Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: AdagioNoah Bendix-Balgley violin
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major, op. 16- free
Interview
Noah Bendix-Balgley in conversation with Stanley Dodds
European Concert from the Philharmonie Berlin with Kirill Petrenko
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Despite the corona crisis, the traditional European Concert was still able to take place almost 30 years after its inception. Members of the orchestra performed under the baton of chief conductor Kirill Petrenko in an otherwise empty Philharmonie. After works by Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti and Samuel Barber, Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony was performed in a version for chamber orchestra with soprano Christiane Karg. “The Philharmoniker soloists exude dedication – and an inexhaustible world opens up in miniature” (Tagesspiegel).
01 May 2020Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill PetrenkoChristiane Karg
Welcome
Stanley Dodds
Arvo Pärt
FratresGyörgy Ligeti
Ramifications for stringsSamuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, op. 11- free
Interview
Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Olaf Maninger Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major (arr. for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein)Christiane Karg soprano
Kirill Petrenko and Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
In this concert, Kirill Petrenko made his last appearance with the Berliner Philharmoniker before taking up office as their chief conductor. First, soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja showed how much virtuosity and expressive variety there is in Arnold Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto. Then came Tchaikovsky’s passionate Fifth Symphony in a performance full of power and dedication, “with a final passage like a casting out of devils .... The hall was completely breathless with enthusiasm and anticipation of what the future holds” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
09 Mar 2019Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill PetrenkoPatricia Kopatchinskaja
Arnold Schoenberg
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 36Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Maurice Ravel
Duo No. 1 for violin and celloPatricia Kopatchinskaja violin, Bruno Delepelaire cello
Darius Milhaud
Jeu for violin and clarinetPatricia Kopatchinskaja violin, Andreas Ottensamer clarinet
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64- free
Interview
Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto - free
Interview
Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Paavo Järvi conducts Brahms and Lutosławski
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
Witold Lutosławski’s captivating Concerto for Orchestra combines the acerbic power of traditional Polish folk music with ingenious, pioneering construction. A charming contrast is formed by Johannes Brahms’ joyous Second Symphony, written during a holiday at the Wörthersee in which, according to the composer, “The melodies fly so thick here that you have to be careful not to step on one”. The conductor for this concert is Paavo Järvi.
20 Oct 2018Berliner Philharmoniker
Paavo JärviWitold Lutosławski
Concerto for OrchestraJohannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73- free
Interview
Paavo Järvi in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Family concert: children’s opera “Knight Parceval”
Photo: Kai Bienert
Henrik Albrecht’s children’s opera Ritter Parceval deals with the fascinating question of how a little boy becomes a knight. Especially when no-one believes he has what it takes to be a hero. Not his own overprotective mother Herzeloyde, the evil magician Klingsor or the virtuous Gurnemanz. In an end result that is moving, fascinating and daring, Albrecht sets the development of the young Parceval to music based on motifs from Richard Wagner.
18 Feb 2018
Family concertMembers of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Vocal soloists from Baden-Württemberg music colleges, Stanley Dodds
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Henrik Albrecht
Children’s Opera Ritter Parceval − Music by Henrik Albrecht after Motifs of Richard WagnerVocal soloists from Baden-Württemberg music colleges, Stanley Dodds direction, Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Alina Wunderlin soprano, Flurina Stucki soprano, Elisabeth Birgmeier soprano, Marcel Brunner bass baritone, Johannes Mooser baritone, Kirsten Uttendorf stage direction, Nora Lau costumes
Season opening 2017: Simon Rattle conducts Haydn’s “Creation”
Photo: Monika Rittershaus
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 presents Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, which combines groundbreaking harmonies, humorous tone painting and powerful choruses to form a spectacular cosmic panorama. The acclaimed performance showed all the musical facets of the work: its power as well as its delicate details.
25 Aug 2017Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon RattleElsa Dreisig, 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:2Elsa Dreisig soprano, Mark Padmore tenor, Florian Boesch baritone, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars chorus master
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Interview
Sir Simon Rattle on Haydn’s “Creation” - free
Interview
Mark Padmore in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Gianandrea Noseda debuts with Strauss and Tchaikovsky
Photo: Ramella & Giannese
Two visions of death that could not be more different: The old Richard Strauss looks toward his death confidently and calmly with his Vier letzte Lieder – soloist: Camilla Nylund. In his Fourth Symphony, Peter Tchaikovsky reflects uneasily with high emotional pressure an existential crisis that drove him to attempt suicide. With this concert from May 2015, conductor Gianandrea Noseda made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
24 May 2015Berliner Philharmoniker
Gianandrea NosedaCamilla Nylund
Goffredo Petrassi
Partita for orchestraRichard Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)Camilla Nylund Soprano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36- free
Interview
Gianandrea Noseda in conversation with Stanley Dodds
A Russian evening with Tugan Sokhiev and Vadim Gluzman
Photo: Patrice Nin
Both forward-looking and intelligible to all – that’s what music was intended to be in the Soviet Union. In this concert from December 2014 you can hear works that accord ingeniously with this challenging mission: Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, with Vadim Gluzman as the soloist, and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, probably his most popular one. The conductor is Tugan Sokhiev, music director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.
13 Dec 2014Berliner Philharmoniker
Tugan SokhievVadim Gluzman
Anatoly Lyadov
The Enchanted Lake, op. 62Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, op. 63Vadim Gluzman Violin
Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor “Obsession”: PréludeDmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47- free
Interview
Tugan Sokhiev in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Isabel Karajan in Stravinsky’s “Histoire du soldat”
The celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie in Berlin had many highlights. One of which was undoubtedly an appearance by Isabel Karajan, eldest daughter of Herbert von Karajan. She has made an outstanding name for herself as an actress and gave a demonstration of her skills and versatility for this anniversary as the narrator in Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat.
27 Oct 2012
From the Chamber Music HallMembers of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Stanley DoddsIsabel Karajan
Igor Stravinsky
L’Histoire du soldat (performed in German)Isabel Karajan Narrator
Concert to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
In a joint benefit concert in April 2011, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Staatskapelle Berlin commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl reactor disaster. This day of remembrance was all the more relevant given the nuclear disaster in Fukushima just a few weeks previously. The concert, with works by Dmitri Shostakovitch, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Tōru Takemitsu, was conducted by Andrey Boreyko.
26 Apr 2011Staatskapelle Berlin, Strings of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Andrey BoreykoDmitri Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony in C minor · Ukrainian and Russian ChorussesTherese Affolter Speaker, Christian Brückner Speaker, ”Credo” Chamber Choir Kiev, Strings of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Bogdan Plish Direction
Tōru Takemitsu
Requiem for string orchestraStaatskapelle Berlin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74 “Pathétique”Staatskapelle Berlin
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Interview
Benefit concert for the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Neeme Järvi conducts Strauss’s “Don Juan” and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14
Shostakovitch’s 14th Symphony is a highly unusual work. With frugal musical forces, it takes death as its theme. It forgoes all pathos yet is all the more haunting because of this. In contrast, this concert with Neeme Järvi also includes Richard Stauss’s Don Juan and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, compositions which also deal with death, however in both cases it is combined with a highly luxurious orchestration.
11 Dec 2010Berliner Philharmoniker
Neeme JärviAnatoli Kotcherga, Olga Mykytenko
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 14 in G minor, op. 135Anatoli Kotcherga Bass, Olga Mykytenko Soprano
Richard Strauss
Don Juan, op. 20Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini, op. 32Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, op. 71: Waltz of the Flowers- free
Interview
Neeme Järvi in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Andris Nelsons and Baiba Skride make their debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
With two debuts in one evening, this concert from October 2010 had the up-and-coming generation of musicians at its heart. As the main work of the evening, Andris Nelsons conducted Dmitri Shostakovitch’s Eighth Symphony – according to one review, a “sensational concert” and a “brilliant debut”. No less praise was there for Baiba Skride’s “simple and harmonious” interpretation as the soloist in Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto.
16 Oct 2010Berliner Philharmoniker
Andris NelsonsBaiba Skride
Alban Berg
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra “To the Memory of an Angel”Baiba Skride Violin
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, op. 65- free
Interview
Baiba Skride and Andris Nelsons in conversation with Stanley Dodds
Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 with Daniel Barenboim und Asher Fisch
The subtle yet extravagant outpourings of beauty of his music have made Frédéric Chopin perhaps the most popular piano composer of all. In this recording from 2009, Daniel Barenboim is the soloist in both of Chopin’s piano concertos: critics praised the performance for the “magic of the unrepeatable moment”. The concert is conducted by Asher Fisch.
04 Oct 2009Berliner Philharmoniker
Asher FischDaniel Barenboim
Karol Szymanowski
Concert Overture in E major, op. 12Frédéric Chopin
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor, op. 21Daniel Barenboim Piano
Witold Lutosławski
Overture for stringsFrédéric Chopin
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E minor, op. 11Daniel Barenboim Piano
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Interview
Daniel Barenboim and Asher Fisch in conversation with Stanley Dodds