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In Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, the Berliner Philharmoniker can explore the full spectrum of music-making, from intimacy in chamber music passages to its characteristically powerful tutti sound. Like Bruckner’s work, Mendelssohn’s violin concerto... moreabout: Marek Janowski and Augustin Hadelich
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Under conductor Ingo Metzmacher, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester combines microtonal orchestral music with cosmic late Romanticism – and, in Anton Bruckner, Richard Wagner and Luigi Nono, three of the most headstrong characters in musical history. Richard... moreabout: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
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Nature, its beauty, its endangerment: These are the themes of our Biennale and of this concert, which takes us around the world. It begins with a new work by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen, whose work is strongly inspired by her native Lapland. Brett... moreabout: Biennale “Paradise Lost?”Marin Alsop conducts images of nature
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The composer, pianist and musicologist Aribert Reimann died on 13 March 2024 at the age of 88. His works – as well as his work in Berlin and German music and cultural life as a whole – represent one of the most substantial contributions to vocal music... moreabout: In memoriam Aribert Reiman
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Moderated by Olaf Wilhelmer, four critics will once again discuss a central work this year: in 2024 it will be Aaron Copland’s 3rd Symphony. The “Critics’ Quartet” takes place instead of the usual introduction to the concert with the Kansas City Symphony... moreabout: Critics’ Quartet
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When Stefano Bollani interprets the hit song “O sole mio”, all languor and indulgence disappears. Instead, you hear light-footed, astonishing imagination. Now the pianist, who is at home in both jazz and classical music, celebrates the music of his homeland... moreabout: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic: “Italian Night”
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“It is the best thing I have written in my life”, declared Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1784 of his piano quintet. Many of his most famous works had not yet been written, but the quintet remains a Mozartian jewel, with its melodic beauty and charming dialogues... moreabout: Philharmonic chamber musicPiano quartets by Mozart and Beethoven with Kit Armstrong
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Franz LisztFantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H (Bearbeitung für Orgel von Jean Guillou)Franz LisztValse oubliée Nr. 1 (Bearbeitung für Orgel von Jean Guillou)Wolfgang Amadeus MozartAdagio und Rondo c-Moll KV 617 (Bearbeitung für Orgel von Jean Guillou)Peter... moreabout: Organ matinee
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In the free carte blanche concerts, the scholarship holders of the Karajan Academy present themselves every month as soloists or in ensembles and gain further performance experience in addition to their orchestral activities. They put together the programme... moreabout: Carte blanche
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Schoenberg and Brahms – they sound like separate worlds. However, the twelve-tone composer was partly responsible for saving the late Romantic for the Modern Age. With Brahms’s “Tragische Ouvertüre” and the American minimalism of John Adams’s “Harmonielehre”... moreabout: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
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At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich... moreabout: Kirill Petrenko and Vilde Frang
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Few other musicians have shaped the Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic series as much as pianists Michael Wollny and Iiro Rantala. The two played in the legendary opening concert of the series in 2012 and have appeared time and again in recent years with memorable... moreabout: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic: Piano Night
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It is his first major work, and yet it is a mature musical statement. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 contains everything that would characterise the composer’s later style: emotional outbursts, sudden yawning chasms, folkloric melodies, the sounds of... moreabout: Tugan Sokhiev conducts Mahler’s First
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Colourful, festive, refined – Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony” surprises us not only with its unexpected use of the organ, but also with its delicate sound textures. Kazuki Yamada, chief conductor of the orchestras in Birmingham and Monte-Carlo,... moreabout: Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony” and Respighi’s “Fontane di Roma”
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An ancient Egyptian sculpture finds new meaning as a desk-top ornament. But what status does it have between familiar discourse and the unknown? This question becomes the starting point for an archaeology of musical archetypes. In the concluding part... moreabout: EXAUDI / PHACE
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