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Der Australier Brett Dean zu Gast in Saarbrücken
Das Konzert steht für 30 Tage zum Nachhören bereit. Seine Inspiration als Komponist zieht der Australier Brett Dean zum einen aus seiner 14-jährigen Orchestertätigkeit als Solobratscher der Berliner Philharmoniker, zum anderen aus Rockbands, in denen er gespielt hat. Seine Musik klingt vor allem farbenreich, ergänzt häufig Elektronik und Samples.
Juana Aguirre | Arkaoda
Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in: Entre Trópicos presents: Juana Aguirre returns to Berlin as part of her new Los Pilares tour, in a special show that revisits her acclaimed albums Claroscuro and Anónimo while offering a first glimpse of songs yet to come. Born in Buenos Aires, she learned to write and produce while traveling the world. Her solo albums Claroscuro (2021) and Anónimo (2025) move between acoustic and electronic elements, carried by emotionally intense lyrics.
Listening Session: 505 — True at First Light
Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in: Listening Session: 505 — True at First Light Join us for an intimate listening session with Berlin-based duo 505, presenting their new album True at First Light. Blending electronic and acoustic instruments, 505 move between trip-hop, electronica, and jazz, creating a sound that feels both fluid and distinctive.
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Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker
Just one aspect of many that made Sir Simon Rattle’s 15-year tenure as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker special was that he knew how to forge connections: whether the combination of Early and New music, the fusion of sound and staging, the communication of music as part of the Education Programme he initiated, or the expansion of the repertoire – especially into Anglo-Saxon worlds. Our playlist brings together the multifaceted highlights of this intensive collaboration.
Teodor Currentzis
conductor Teodor Currentzis, a trained violinist and conductor, ensemble founder and music ambassador, is one of the most distinctive personalities in classical music. He made his stunning debut conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the end of 2019. Teodor Currentzis began his musical training in his home town of Athens and moved to the conservatory in St Petersburg in 1994 to study conducting under the legendary Ilya Musin.
Miembros de los Berliner Philharmoniker hablan sobre Daniel Barenboim
«Es un fenómeno, un genio». Desde hace 60 años, Daniel Barenboim y los Berliner Philharmoniker se encuentran unidos gracias a una estrecha cooperación. Miembros de la orquesta hablan aquí con el director y pianista sobre esta especial colaboración y sobre algunos momentos destacados de sus conciertos conjuntos.
Petrenko and Wang: 2024 season finale – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
Maurice Ravel’s ecstatic Boléro under Berlin’s night sky – the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko could not find a more atmospheric way to end the season in the Waldbühne. Beforehand, star pianist Yuja Wang plays the solo part in Prokoviev’s First Piano Concerto – a work in which she dazzlingly displays her creativity. Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé transports listeners to a pastoral idyll from ancient mythology.
Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker
The 12th of June 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim’s debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. The unique bond that has developed since their first collaboration was honoured in 2019 with his appointment as the orchestra’s only honorary conductor. Our playlist documents some of the most memorable joint performances between 1980 and 2023, in which Barenboim appears both as conductor and pianist under the baton of chief conductors Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle.
Rattle conducts Bruckner and Widmann – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
Bruckner’s Sixth was long one of the composer’s most underrated works. According to Sir Simon Rattle, that was because it does not fulfil the typical expectations of a Bruckner symphony. It is shorter, with less pathos than usual. And Bruckner himself thought that the Sixth was his “sauciest”. Simon Rattle also conducts the world premiere of a horn concerto that Jörg Widmann, Composer in Residence, wrote for Stefan Dohr.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Beatrice Rana
A statement against terror, violence and war: Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, composed during the siege of Leningrad by German troops, established the composer’s international reputation. The programme, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, opens with the melodious Piano Concerto by the young Clara Schumann. The Italian pianist Beatrice Rana made her debut as soloist.
Roth: Bruckner and a world premiere – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
The Third Symphony is regarded as Anton Bruckner’s problem child. The three versions of this hymn-like work document how much the composer struggled with it. François-Xavier Roth considers the first version from 1873 the most successful, because it reveals the original Bruckner. Also on the programme is the world premiere of a work by Vito Žuraj, winner of the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize.
Europakonzert 2024: Harding & Batiashvili
“This concert will be the highlight of my life,” says Lisa Batiashvili. In the picturesque setting of the Tsinandali estate, she will play Brahms’s Violin Concerto as the Philharmoniker’s Artist in Residence. This concert is not only special for the native Georgian: the Berliner Philharmoniker will be the first high-profile European orchestra to perform in Georgia, a candidate country for EU membership.
Eun Sun Kim: Schoenberg & Rachmaninov – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
This concert shows how different musical worlds were at the beginning of the 20th century. Arnold Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung (soloist: Ausrine Stundyte), an intense atmospheric painting between anxiety and hope, is innovative. Sergei Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony, on the other hand, is marked by a melancholy look back. The South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim, music director of the San Francisco Opera, makes her debut with the Philharmoniker.
Hannu Lintu and Vilde Frang
The Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu comes to his debut with the Philharmoniker as a musical ambassador of his homeland. The chief conductor of the Finnish National Opera presents Kaija Saariaho’s celestial Ciel d’hiver and the austerely Nordic Seventh Symphony by Jean Sibelius. The concert opens with Olivier Messiaen’s Le Tombeau resplendissant and Igor Stravinsky’s highly virtuosic Violin Concerto with soloist Vilde Frang.
Petrenko conducts Strauss’s “Elektra” – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
A woman in an exceptional situation: Elektra is driven by grief, pain and hatred. She wants to avenge the death of her father. The tragedy of the Greek king’s daughter was ideal operatic material for Richard Strauss, who describes the psychological profile of a desperate woman in stormy scenes. Kirill Petrenko conducts a concert performance of the opera. Nina Stemme, an acclaimed soloist in dramatic parts, sings the title role.
Kirill Petrenko conducts Strauss’ “Elektra” | Berliner Philharmoniker
A desperate woman: Elektra is driven by grief, pain, and hatred. She wants to avenge the death of her father, who was murdered by her mother and her mother’s lover. Hugo von Hofmansthal’s retelling of the tragedy of the Greek princess was ideal operatic material for the music dramatist Richard Strauss, who painted this psychological portrait of a woman in existential conflict in richly coloured, intense scenes.
Unfamiliar Bruckner with Thielemann – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
Anton Bruckner on the path to self-discovery: this concert presents two almost unknown symphonies by the composer, neither of which are included in the official count. The Symphony in F minor is Bruckner’s first attempt in the genre. Although the composer described the work as “school work”, it delights with its verve and Romantic warmth. In the case of the so-called “Nullte” (“No. 0”), it is fascinating how Bruckner’s unmistakable personal style takes shape.
Europakonzert | Berliner Philharmoniker
“This concert will be the highlight of my life,” says Lisa Batiashvili. In the picturesque setting of the Tsinandali estate, our Artist in Residence performs Brahms’ Violin Concerto under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. The Berliner Philharmoniker’s concert is something very special, and not just for the Georgian-born artist: this is the first time that a top European orchestra has performed in Georgia, a candidate for EU membership.
Mourning for Seiji Ozawa
The Berliner Philharmoniker mourns the death of honorary member Seiji Ozawa, who died on 6 February 2024, at the age of 88. Eva-Maria Tomasi and Stefan Dohr, orchestra board members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, said: “For us as an orchestra, Seiji Ozawa was more than a highly-esteemed conductor. His great technical skill, his perfect knowledge of the score and his friendly, modest, honest and humorous manner made him a close friend and companion to the orchestra since his debut in 1966.
Kirill Petrenko conducts Schoenberg – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
Kirill Petrenko devotes himself to two seminal works of the 20th century. Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 marks a turning point, away from late Romanticism to a more modern musical language. His unfinished oratorio Jacob’s Ladder also demonstrates the expressive power that developed from this transition. The work is based on Jacob’s dream about the ladder to heaven that leads to God – a parable about the human search for spirituality.
Harding with Bruckner and Widmann – Digital Concert Hall | Digital Concert Hall
A horn call from the tower of a medieval city, forest murmurs, hunting scenes – Anton Bruckner had images like these in mind when he composed his Fourth Symphony. At this concert, Daniel Harding makes the richly coloured “Romantic” shine. Jörg Widmann’s Viola Concerto will be heard beforehand, in which Antoine Tamestit will elicit dark, warm and surprisingly percussive sounds from his instrument. The concert is dedicated to the memory of Claudio Abbado, who died ten years ago on 20 January.
15 Years of the Digital Concert Hall – the anniversary broadcast | Digital Concert Hall
According to principal cellist and founder Olaf Maninger, the Digital Concert Hall was born out of an “adventurous and actually crazy idea” in 2008 – when the internet was still young. This season we are celebrating its anniversary. Presenter and horn player Sarah Willis, other members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and guests take an entertaining look back, ahead, and behind the scenes of the Digital Concert Hall with musical highlights from the last 15 years.
New Year’s Eve Concert with Kirill Petrenko and Jonas Kaufmann
The New Year’s Eve Concert will be dominated by high drama – it revolves around blood revenge, incest and pure lovers’ bliss. Siegmund in Wagner’s Walküre is a signature role for Jonas Kaufmann, who sings it with passion and strength. Kirill Petrenko conducts the first act of the opera at this concert. The programme opens with excerpts from Tannhäuser, which encapsulate the grandeur of the plot. We will present a special accompanying programme 30 minutes before the concert begins.
Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich
Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich with the Berliner Philharmoniker delivered an “exceptional evening that will not be forgotten” (Berliner Zeitung). The two international stars, who have known each other since childhood, performed Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto. Under the direction of Daniel Barenboim – honorary conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker – the programme also included Johannes Brahms’s Third Symphony, which shifts between major and minor keys.
Benefit concert “Together for humanity”
With a charity concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker and their guests call for the release of all hostages kidnapped from Israel into Gaza and for the protection of the Palestinian and Israeli civilian population. Also taking part: chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, pianist Martha Argerich, baritone Thomas Hampson, cellist Steven Isserlis, soprano Christiane Karg and others. Musicians from Israel, including the singer Noa, will also be performing.
Together for humanity
With a benefit concert on 20 December, the Berliner Philharmoniker and their guests call for the release of all hostages kidnapped from Israel into Gaza, and for the protection of the Palestinian and Israeli civilian population. The human suffering in the Middle East continues unabated.
Kirill Petrenko conducts Mozart, Berg and Brahms
Kirill Petrenko traverses the German-Austrian musical tradition with works that repeatedly look into abysses. Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 fascinates with a combination of light-heartedness and subliminal despair; in Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra, echoes of waltzes and marches are nightmarishly distorted. Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is one of the most magnificent works of the late Romantic repertoire and is pervaded with touching melancholy.
“Upbeat” with Kirill Petrenko: Alban Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra
In our new series Upbeat, chief conductor Kirill Petrenko personally introduces individual works in conversation and in exclusive insights into rehearsals. In the first episode, together with Jelka Weber, flautist with the orchestra, he looks at Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra.
Jakub Hrůša conducts Dvořák’s Stabat mater
For the Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat mater is a “wonderful gift”. The composition occupies a prominent position among the numerous settings of the medieval text. In it, Dvořák came to terms with his grief at the death of three of his children and composed a work in which dramatic outbursts alternate with passages full of tenderness, closing with an ecstatic vision of resurrection.
60 years Philharmonie Berlin
Contemporary witnesses In six videos, contemporary witnesses talk about the construction and opening of the Philharmonie Berlin. Articles Fascinating background stories tell the history of the financing of the historic building by the Friends of the Berliner Philharmoniker and of its special architecture.
Herbert Blomstedt conducts Beethoven’s “Eroica”
Contrasting expressive worlds: the inward-looking Metamorphosen, in which the 81-year-old Richard Strauss mourns the destruction of the Second World War, and the forward-charging Eroica of the young Beethoven. A motif from the funeral march of the Eroica, which Strauss quotes, establishes a connection. The wisdom of old age and esprit – Herbert Blomstedt combines them in his charismatic personality.
Simone Young conducts Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphony”
Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Turangalîla-Symphony is a paean to joy and love in all their facets, inspired by the Tristan legend. Messiaen creates his magical soundscapes with an unusual orchestra that includes an imposing percussion section, electronic sounds and a highly virtuosic piano part, interpreted here by Cédric Tiberghien. The Berliner Philharmoniker will be conducted by Simone Young.
2023 Europakonzert from Barcelona with Kirill Petrenko
In the richly detailed architecture of the Sagrada Família, Kirill Petrenko conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker’s 2023 Europakonzert. The fact that, as he says himself, he “always finds his approach to Mozart through opera”, was evident immediately: in Mozart’s Symphony No. 25, the motet “Exsultate, jubilate” and the Coronation Mass, he explored dramatic contrasts with the orchestra, a renowned quartet of soloists and the Barcelona-based choir Orfeó Català.
“Late Night”: A Klezmer evening
A homage to Jewish music: Noah Bendix-Balgley, a lover of klezmer music since childhood, wrote Fidl-Fantazye, a concerto for violin and chamber orchestra which brings out all the magic of the musical style. Ödön Pártos – whose Yizkor is performed by Amihai Grosz – and Samuel Adler emigrated to Palestine and the USA respectively in the 1930s. Their music combines avant-garde stylistic devices with Jewish and Middle Eastern folk music.
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich
Passionate, visionary, powerful – critics praise conductor Klaus Mäkelä with words such as these. Despite his youth, the native of Finland is already in great demand internationally. He brings two Sixth Symphonies to his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker: Dmitri Shostakovich said he wanted to convey the mood of “spring, joy and youth” in his work. Tchaikovsky, on the other hand, evoked wistful melancholy in the “Pathétique”.
Kirill Petrenko conducts Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”
“Strong, zealous, even evil and angry and dark” – this is how Felix Mendelssohn imagined the biblical prophet Elijah, the protagonist of his oratorio of the same name. Full of drama, the composer portrays a man who struggles to convert the people to the true faith – in vain, as he is forced to realise at the end. Under the direction of Kirill Petrenko, the distinguished baritone Christian Gerhaher takes on the role of Elijah.
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Work Martha Argerich Movements 1. Allegro affettuoso 2. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso 3. Allegro vivace Applause Complete concert Concert Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich Our recommendations Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, op. 54 Prométhée – Le Poème du feu, op. 60 Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games), op. 22: No. 11 Petit mari, petite femme Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120 (second version from 1851) (Forest Scenes), op.
New Year’s Eve Concert with Kirill Petrenko and Jonas Kaufmann
To ring out the old year, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko present a thrilling programme with tenor Jonas Kaufmann as special guest. A resonant lower range, radiant high notes and intelligent interpretation make him one of the world’s leading singers. In addition to arias and overtures from Italian opera, the programme includes Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio italien and an excerpt from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet.
Andris Nelsons and Mitsuko Uchida
Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto is a seminal work of Modernism, but pianist Mitsuko Uchida also finds “lightness, serenity and sadness” in it. For her, the Concerto is an homage to the Viennese musical culture that Schoenberg came from. An impressive work from this tradition is Anton Bruckner’s solemn Seventh Symphony. Andris Nelsons, a Bruckner specialist from the younger generation, conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Tugan Sokhiev conducts music from “Swan Lake”
Peter Tchaikovsky’s music for Swan Lake is characterized by the contrast between radiant elegance and the dark tones of a tragic fairy tale. Tugan Sokhiev has chosen excerpts from the score that have made a strong impression on him. Drama and beauty also converge in the Cello Concerto by the French Romantic composer Édouard Lalo. The solo part, played by Bruno Delepelaire, 1st principal cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, sings beautifully.
François-Xavier Roth and Isabelle Faust
Claude Debussy and Paul Dukas admired Richard Wagner’s music in their youth, resulting in a blend of French flavour and Wagnerian echoes in their early works. François-Xavier Roth demonstrates that with Debussy’s mystical cantata La Damoiselle élue and Dukas’s overture Polyeucte. We also hear Dukas’s most popular symphonic poem, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Soloist for the concert is Isabelle Faust, who performs Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2.
Iván Fischer conducts Mahler’s First Symphony
“Mahler’s First Symphony is very close to me,” says Iván Fischer. “Perhaps because I hear in it a great deal of Mahler’s middle-class, assimilated Jewish background – from which I come myself.” He also conducts music by Mahler’s contemporary Richard Strauss: a selection of waltzes from Rosenkavalier and the Duet Concertino with clarinettist Wenzel Fuchs and bassoonist Stefan Schweigert, principal wind players with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Herbert Blomstedt conducts Schubert and Beethoven
Herbert Blomstedt’s guiding principle is “to conduct fewer works, but to work on them thoroughly”. This invariably makes his interpretations events. Blomstedt is one of the long-standing artistic friends of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He conducts Franz Schubert here for the first time, however. In addition to Schubert’s Third Symphony, Beethoven’s Seventh is also on the programme. What unites the two works? Their infectiously optimistic spirit.
Kirill Petrenko conducts Dallapiccola’s “The Prisoner”
Kirill Petrenko devotes this concert to three composers of the post-war avant-garde. Luigi Dallapiccola’s The Prisoner is about hope, freedom and their misuse. Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Iannis Xenakis also wrote works opposing injustice and oppression. Zimmermann’s Symphony in one movement leads the listener “from an apocalyptic threat to mystic immersion”, according to the composer, while in Empreintes Xenakis creates a shimmering soundscape.
Thomas Adès makes his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Thomas Adès is one of the best-known English composers since Benjamin Britten. His sensuous works have been part of the repertoire of the Berliner Philharmoniker for years. Now he collaborates with the orchestra for the first time as conductor. In addition to two of his own compositions – the nostalgic Violin Concerto (soloist: Pekka Kuusisto) and the Exterminating Angel Symphony – Thomas Adès conducts works by Hector Berlioz and Gerald Barry.
Thomas Adès Interview | Berliner Philharmoniker
Thomas Adès is probably the best-known and most successful composer in England at the moment. His sonorous works, which alternate between irony and melancholy, have long been part of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s repertoire. He is now making his first appearance with the orchestra as a conductor. In our interview, Adès tells us what the programme of this concert is all about, what role the bass drum plays, and why his work is like that of an architect.
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Home Concerts & Tickets Concert calendar Concert program To the schedule Musikfest Berlin The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by its Principal Conductor Hobart Earle, presents a series of works by Ukrainian composers that are less well-known here: music from Myroslav Skoryk’s Hutsul Tryptich, based on the accessible Carpathian-Ukrainian folklore of the Hutsul mountain people along with Alemdar Karamanov’s introspective Third Piano Concerto with Tamara Stefanovich as the soloist.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates an important rediscovery at this concert. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s programme features a work by Florence Price, a composer whose music attracted attention in the US during the 1930s and 40s by incorporating elements of spirituals into traditional symphonic form. Compositions by Antonín Dvořák and Karol Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili provide the rousing opening.
Klaus Mäkelä and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
The opening concert of the Musikfest Berlin begins on a cosmic scale this year: Klaus Mäkelä and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra present Kaija Saariaho’s orchestral triptych Orion. The title refers to the mythological hunter of the same name, who, according to the ancient legend, was turned into the most beautiful constellation of the northern hemisphere. It will be followed by Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.
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