The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
The Berlin Philharmonic (in German: Die Berliner Philharmoniker), is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of “top ten European Orchestras”, after the Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Its primary concert venue is the Philharmonie, located in the Kulturforum area of the city. Since 2002, its principal conductor is Sir Simon Rattle. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra also supports several chamber music ensembles. The funding for the organization is subsidized by the city of Berlin and a partnership with Deutsche Bank.
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February 2022
Date | Time | Venue | Details | |
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05 Feb 2022 | 19:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Make Enquiry | |
05 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie Berlin | Strom − Festival for Electronic Music | Make Enquiry |
06 Feb 2022 | 16:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Philharmonic Salon | Make Enquiry |
06 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie Berlin | Strom − Festival for Electronic Music | Make Enquiry |
08 Feb 2022 | 17:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Carte blanche | Make Enquiry |
10 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Suk | Make Enquiry |
11 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Suk | Make Enquiry |
12 Feb 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Suk | Make Enquiry |
13 Feb 2022 | 16:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Philharmonic Salon | Make Enquiry |
13 Feb 2022 | 16:00 | Philharmonie | Berliner Symphoniker, José Miramontes Zapata, Claudio Mansutti, Forte Trio, Timur Urmancheyev, Dinara Barzabayeva- Sakhaman, Murat Narbekov | Make Enquiry |
13 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Francis Poulenc, Dai Fujikura and Richard Strauss | Make Enquiry |
15 Feb 2022 | 19:30 | Musikverein, Wien | Works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Suk | Make Enquiry |
15 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Valentina Diaz-Frenot | Make Enquiry |
16 Feb 2022 | 19:30 | Musikverein, Wien | Works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Witold Lutosławski and Johannes Brahms | Make Enquiry |
16 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Neue Nationalgalerie | Philharmonic Discourse | Make Enquiry |
18 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Cankarjev dom, Gallus hall | Works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Witold Lutosławski and Johannes Brahms | Make Enquiry |
19 Feb 2022 | 10:00 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive Concerts | Make Enquiry |
19 Feb 2022 | 11:30 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive Concerts | Make Enquiry |
19 Feb 2022 | 19:30 | Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb, Main Hall | Works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Witold Lutosławski and Johannes Brahms | Make Enquiry |
20 Feb 2022 | 10:00 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive Concerts | Make Enquiry |
20 Feb 2022 | 11:30 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive Concerts | Make Enquiry |
22 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff and Franz Schubert | Make Enquiry |
25 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude |
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25 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” | Make Enquiry |
26 Feb 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” | Make Enquiry |
26 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend | Make Enquiry |
27 Feb 2022 | 16:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend | Make Enquiry |
27 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” | Make Enquiry |
27 Feb 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Alessandro Marcello and Antonio Vivaldi |
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March 2022
Date | Time | Venue | Details | |
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01 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Anton Webern and Béla Bartók | Make Enquiry |
03 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Igor Stravinsky and Johann Sebastian Bach | Make Enquiry |
03 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Antonín Dvořák and Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
04 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Igor Stravinsky and Johann Sebastian Bach | Make Enquiry |
04 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Georg Pisendel |
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05 Mar 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Igor Stravinsky and Johann Sebastian Bach | Make Enquiry |
05 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend
Works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Monsieur Bach de Berlin, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach |
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06 Mar 2022 | 11:00 | Philharmonie | Baroque Weekend
George Frideric Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 |
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06 Mar 2022 | 16:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Baroque Weekend
Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 |
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11 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem | Make Enquiry |
12 Mar 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem | Make Enquiry |
12 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | SINFONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN, Raphael Haeger, Lily Dahab, Oscar Bohorquez | Make Enquiry |
13 Mar 2022 | 11:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Marcel Dupré, César Franck, Gabriel Fauré, Joseph Jongen, Charles-Marie Widor, Rolande Falcinelli, Thomas Ospital, Émile Bourdon and Thierry Escaich | Make Enquiry |
13 Mar 2022 | 16:00 | Philharmonie | Philharmonischer Chor Berlin, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Maike Bühle, Johanna Winkel, Virginie Verrez, Stephan Rügamer, Michael Nagy, Konstantin Wolff | Make Enquiry |
13 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem | Make Enquiry |
14 Mar 2022 | 17:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Carte blanche | Make Enquiry |
15 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Gideon Klein, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Béla Bartók | Make Enquiry |
16 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic | Make Enquiry |
17 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Make Enquiry |
18 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Make Enquiry |
19 Mar 2022 | 10:00 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
19 Mar 2022 | 11:30 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
19 Mar 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Make Enquiry |
20 Mar 2022 | 10:00 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
20 Mar 2022 | 11:30 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
23 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Richard Wagner, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Arnold Schoenberg | Make Enquiry |
25 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin and Maurice Ravel | Make Enquiry |
26 Mar 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | SINFONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN, Andreas Wittmann, Eloïse Bella Kohn, Kim Barbier, Yoonji Kim | Make Enquiry |
April 2022
Date | Time | Venue | Details | |
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04 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Debut in Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Make Enquiry |
05 Apr 2022 | 17:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Carte blanche | Make Enquiry |
09 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, op. 68 | Make Enquiry |
10 Apr 2022 | 15:00 | Philharmonie | Chor der Berliner Bach Akademie, Orchester der Berliner Bach Akademie, Heribert Breuer, Catalina Bertucci, Annekathrin Laabs, Tobias Hunger, Klaus Häger, Philipp Jekal | Make Enquiry |
10 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Works by Igor Stravinsky and Johann Sebastian Bach | Make Enquiry |
10 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Boris Brovtsyn, Julia-Maria Kretz, Gareth Lubbe, Jens Peter Maintz, Chen Halevi, Péter Nagy | Make Enquiry |
12 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, op. 68 | Make Enquiry |
13 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Works by Sergei Rachmaninov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky | Make Enquiry |
13 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic | Make Enquiry |
14 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Make Enquiry | |
15 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, op. 68 | Make Enquiry |
16 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Works by Mieczysław Weinberg and Igor Stravinsky | Make Enquiry |
17 Apr 2022 | 16:00 | Philharmonie | SINFONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN, Svetoslav Borisov, Katharina Richter, Aura Twarowska, Enrique Ambrosio, Krzysztof Szumański | Make Enquiry |
17 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Iolanta, op. 69 | Make Enquiry |
17 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | SINFONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN, Christian Köhler, Amelie Dobler, Michael Heller | Make Enquiry |
18 Apr 2022 | 11:00 | Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Benazet Saal | Works by Richard Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
18 Apr 2022 | 18:00 | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, op. 68 | Make Enquiry |
20 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Make Enquiry | |
21 Apr 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, op. 68 | Make Enquiry |
23 Apr 2022 | 19:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Philipp Jarnach, Paul Dessau, Erwin Schulhoff and Mauricio Kagel | Make Enquiry |
24 Apr 2022 | 11:00 | Philharmonie | Family Concert
Modest Mussorgsky Bilder einer Ausstellung (Bearbeitung für Blechbläserensemble, Pauken und Schlagzeug von Elgar Howarth) |
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24 Apr 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, op. 68 | Make Enquiry |
29 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Gioacchino Rossini, Leoš Janáček and Richard Strauss | Make Enquiry |
30 Apr 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | SINFONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN, Daniel Stabrawa, Cornelia Gartemann, Anna Mehlin, Christoph von der Nahmer | Make Enquiry |
May 2022
Date | Time | Venue | Details | |
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01 May 2022 | 11:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Carlos Seixas, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, Guy Bovet, Henri Mulet, Joseph Jongen, Anthony Newman, Anton Heiller, Jean Guillou and Charles-Marie Widor | Make Enquiry |
01 May 2022 | 12:00 | Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre | Europakonzert of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Works by Gioacchino Rossini, Leoš Janáček and Richard Strauss |
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01 May 2022 | 17:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie Hamburg, Tigran Mikaelyan | Make Enquiry |
04 May 2022 | 20:00 | Ausstellungsfoyer Kammermusiksaal / Fensterfront | Philharmonic Discourse | Make Enquiry |
05 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schubert | Make Enquiry |
06 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schubert | Make Enquiry |
07 May 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Donghoon Shin and Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
08 May 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Mieczysław Weinberg and Johannes Brahms | Make Enquiry |
10 May 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Frédéric Chopin | Make Enquiry |
12 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Roberto Gerhard and Antonín Dvořák | Make Enquiry |
13 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Roberto Gerhard and Antonín Dvořák | Make Enquiry |
13 May 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
14 May 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Roberto Gerhard and Antonín Dvořák | Make Enquiry |
15 May 2022 | 16:00 | Philharmonie | SINFONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN, Stanley Dodds | Make Enquiry |
15 May 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Antonín Dvořák | Make Enquiry |
18 May 2022 | 17:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Carte blanche | Make Enquiry |
19 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Joseph Haydn and Igor Stravinsky | Make Enquiry |
20 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Joseph Haydn and Igor Stravinsky | Make Enquiry |
21 May 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Joseph Haydn and Igor Stravinsky | Make Enquiry |
21 May 2022 | 22:00 | Philharmonie | Late Night
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach |
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22 May 2022 | 16:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Philharmonic Salon | Make Enquiry |
22 May 2022 | 16:00 | Philharmonie | Berliner Symphoniker, Eduardo Marturet, Lea Birringer | Make Enquiry |
26 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Jean Sibelius, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
26 May 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Boris Brovtsyn, Jens Peter Maintz, Eldar Nebolsin, DoubleBeats, Lukas Böhm, Ni Fan | Make Enquiry |
27 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Jean Sibelius, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
28 May 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Jean Sibelius, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Ludwig van Beethoven | Make Enquiry |
29 May 2022 | 16:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Philharmonic Salon | Make Enquiry |
30 May 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic | Make Enquiry |
June 2022
Date | Time | Venue | Details | |
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01 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Debut in Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Make Enquiry |
02 Jun 2022 | 17:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Carte blanche | Make Enquiry |
02 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Carl Nielsen, Gerald Barry and Anton Bruckner | Make Enquiry |
03 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Carl Nielsen, Gerald Barry and Anton Bruckner | Make Enquiry |
04 Jun 2022 | 10:00 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
04 Jun 2022 | 11:30 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
04 Jun 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Carl Nielsen, Gerald Barry and Anton Bruckner | Make Enquiry |
05 Jun 2022 | 10:00 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
05 Jun 2022 | 11:30 | Hermann Wolff Room | Interactive concerts | Make Enquiry |
05 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Dmitri Shostakovich and Antonín Dvořák | Make Enquiry |
07 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Make Enquiry | |
09 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Leone Sinigaglia and Alexander Zemlinsky | Make Enquiry |
10 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Leone Sinigaglia and Alexander Zemlinsky | Make Enquiry |
11 Jun 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Leone Sinigaglia and Alexander Zemlinsky | Make Enquiry |
16 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Jean Sibelius and Rued Langgaard | Make Enquiry |
17 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Jean Sibelius and Rued Langgaard | Make Enquiry |
18 Jun 2022 | 19:00 | Philharmonie | Works by Jean Sibelius and Rued Langgaard | Make Enquiry |
19 Jun 2022 | 16:00 | Philharmonie | Berliner Symphoniker, Gudni A. Emilsson, Aiman Mussakhajayeva, Yuki Sunamura | Make Enquiry |
21 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Chamber Music Hall | Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Boris Brovtsyn, Clara-Jumi Kang, Nimrod Guez, Torleif Thedéen, Eldar Nebolsin | Make Enquiry |
22 Jun 2022 | 20:00 | Philharmonie | Philharmonischer Chor Berlin, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Simone Schneider, Julie-Marie Sundal, Thomas Michael Allen, Hanno Müller-Brachmann | Make Enquiry |
25 Jun 2022 | 20:15 | Waldbühne Berlin | Works by Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Rachmaninov and Modest Mussorgsky | Make Enquiry |
About the Event
The 1890s – symphonic grandeur, chamber-music idyll
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s 2011/2012 season will be focusing on the 1890s. During these years of grandiloquent, ear-splitting music, universal historic validity was claimed for orchestral works like the powerful symphonic quadriga that can be experienced next season in the Philharmonie: Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” (1893), Mahler’s “Resurrection” (1895), as part of the complete cycle, Bruckner’s Ninth (1896) and Dvorák’s “New World”. But alongside such expansive works, the decade also produced quiet idylls of exquisite euphony, chamber-music masterpieces headed by the compositions of Johannes Brahms, who not only represented his age but also transcended it. Also typical of the period are the creations of Max Bruch, Hugo Wolf, Max Reger and August Klughardt.
Late Night: Luciano Berio
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s focus on Berio pays homage to an outstanding, completely undogmatic creator of new music. His works reflect the Italian composer’s extensive and profound experience with his great musical forebears, especially with Gustav Mahler. Eight of his 14 Sequenzas – a cycle of solo works, some in orchestral versions – will be presented by members of the orchestra. The new Late Night series, which directly follows five concerts in the big auditorium, offers an ideal venue for the Berio pieces, which will be presented in context with other major examples of new music.
Soloists from the orchestra
Soloists have been a permanent fixture of Philharmonic concerts since 1882. Current and former players have made solo appearances with the orchestra, as have touring virtuosi and famous artists who settled in Berlin. Along with internationally prominent guests, the 2011/2012 season is providing four musicians from the Philharmonic’s own ranks with grateful assignments. The trumpeter Gábor Tarkövi will be heard with percussionist Jan Schlichte in Wolfgang Rihm’s rhapsody Marsyas; Daniel Stabrawa will revive the Third Violin Concerto of the Hungarian Jeno Hubay; Guy Braunstein dedicates his virtuosity to the Violin Concerto by Brahms and Albrecht Mayer will bring his to bear on Richard Strauss’s late Oboe Concerto.
Singers
The world of vocal music embraces so much more than just a voice with piano accompaniment. The concert series Singers illuminates different facets of vocal delivery. Gerald Finley will be accompanied by a string quartet and a trio consisting of oboe, viola and piano, while Magdalena Kožená will be joined by Berlin’s Scharoun Ensemble. Of course, there will also be “classical” song recitals, though with exceptional programmes: Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Liszt, Fauré, Taneyev and Tchaikovsky; Jonas Kaufmann has chosen songs by Duparc, Mahler and Strauss; Sophie Karthäuser is juxtaposing Verlaine settings by Debussy, Foccroulle and Hahn; while Joyce DiDonato goes on a musical journey to Venice.
Chamber Music
The quartet concert is the classical form of chamber performance, and thus the six evenings making up the series Quartet are cornerstones of the Philharmonic’s chamber music. Once again this season leading international ensembles will be coming to Berlin, including the Cuarteto Casals, the Vogler Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet and the Emerson Quartet. The Philharmonie will also celebrate a major anniversary of one of its own ensembles: 25 years since the founding of the Philharmonia Quartet. In the Chamber Music Prism series, other formations – piano trio, wind quintet and brass ensemble – will present repertoire ranging from the early Baroque of Michael Praetorius to contemporary pieces.
Piano Recitals
The roster of artists who will be seating themselves at the Chamber Music Hall’s Steinway grand in the Piano series is highly international: along with familiar faces like the Italian Maurizio Pollini, the Chinese Lang Lang and New York-born Murray Perahia – this year’s Pianist in Residence – we welcome three Philharmonic debutants: the British Christian Blackshaw as well as the French Lise de la Salle and American Jonathan Biss, two outstanding talents of the young generation.
Choral Works
Rundfunkchor Berlin is one of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s closest and longest-standing musical partners. Again in the 2011/12 the chorus and the orchestra will join forces for exciting projects, among them the world premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s new Weltethos and performances of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. But other renowned choruses will also be collaborating with the Philharmonic: MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig (Mahler: Symphony No. 8), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis), RIAS Kammerchor (Debussy: Nocturnes) and the Boys of Berlin’s Staats- und Domchor (Mahler: Symphony No. 8).