Following the great success of their concert around Mahler's 10th Symphony, Teodor Currentzis and the SWR Symphonieorchester return to the Philharmonie Berlin. Together with the London Symphony Chorus, the SWR Vokalensemble, the Hanover Boys' Choir and outstanding soloists, the orchestra will perform Benjamin Britten's impressive War Requiem. With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the [...]
After the brilliant performance of the Cherubini Requiem in May 2023, Thomas Hengelbrock and his ensembles return to the Philharmonie with the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Johannes Brahms achieved his breakthrough as a composer with this famous work at the age of 35. After Clara Schumann had studied the score, she wrote him what people still [...]
Gustav Mahler 10th Symphony: Adagio and works inspired by Mahler's Tenth by leading composers of our time: Philippe Manoury, Mark Andre, Jay Schwartz and Alexey Retinsky Fragmentary and yet complete: The achingly beautiful Adagio from Gustav Mahler's 10th Symphony, its only half-completed movement, is both a legacy of late Romantic composing and a door opener to modernism. Always [...]
"I am delighted whenever I hear a new work of yours and take a greater interest in it than in my own. In short, I honor and love you," Ludwig van Beethoven once wrote to Luigi Cherubini. His admiration for his fellow composer went so far that he even wished for Cherubini's Requiem to be played at his own funeral [...].
Dennis Russell Davies is regarded as the leading conductor of American music. In this concert, together with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and a total of almost 200 performers, he presents three very personal works by composers who have left their mark on American music of the 20th century. Decoration Day is the day on which the fallen are remembered and their graves decorated in the USA [...]
Compositions of tragic topicality. A concert in times of war. The Symphony Orchestra of Berlin University of the Arts, together with the Kammerchor der Künste Berlin and mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya under the direction of Steven Sloane, will set an example for peace on november 20 in the Berlin Philharmonie. Valentin Silvestrov's Prayer for Ukraine, Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, [...]
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that do not tell a "programme" story and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: they express pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation. Each work represents a cosmos of its own, particularly evident in the case of Cerha, who spreads out a soundscape on over 300 percussion instruments. The energetic young exceptional virtuoso Vivi Vassileva is [...]
Inspired by an irrepressible spirit of exploration, Claire Huangci devotes herself to an unusually broad repertoire in her artistic work. An American by birth and the daughter of two natural scientists, she has lived in Germany since her student days and has released seven highly successful CDs of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Paderewski. These have received awards including [...]
