Simon Rattle’s final concert with the Berlin Philharmonic: how fitting for our tragic time: streaming live from the Digital Concert Hall.
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February 18, 2017 • 8:37 am Comments Off on Le Grand Macabre directed by Peter Sellars
Le Grand Macabre directed by Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars’s production of Ligeti’s <i>Le Grand Macabre</i> is being live-streamed on the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall today.
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September 17, 2016 • 8:22 am Comments Off on John Adams in Berlin
John Adams in Berlin
John Adams has just started his season as artist-in-residence with the Berlin Philharmonic — with a program in which he also makes his debut conducting the Berliners.
BP’s Digital Concert Hall will live stream tonight’s performance (19:00 Berlin time). My essay for the Berlin Philharmonic program is available on the labeled tab here.
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August 29, 2015 • 1:52 pm Comments Off on Opening Night of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Opening Night of the Berliner Philharmoniker
The new season opened with a masterful pairing of early Britten and Shostakovich: in fact, with what is arguably the most thrilling and audacious symphony Shostakovich ever wrote, the — bafflingly, frustratingly rarely programmed — Symphony No. 4.
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliners will bring the same program to the Lucerne Festival on Tuesday.
Here’s more info and a link to the performance in BP’s Digital Concert Hall.
Filed under: Berlin Philharmonic, Britten, Shostakovich
June 27, 2015 • 11:32 am Comments Off on Kirill Petrenko Goes to Berlin
Kirill Petrenko Goes to Berlin
The Berlin Philharmonic’s choice of the Russian conductor Kirill Petrenko, a native of Omsk, as the new chief conductor to replace Sir Simon Rattle is the biggest piece of orchestral news this week.
Here’s an interview in English from Maestro Petrenko’s visit with the orchestra in 2009:
And here’s one from a visit to Israel (start at 4:50):
On a side note, FAZ reporter Eleonore Büning denounces some media commentators for marring the news with ugly anti-Semitic innuendo. But William Osborne, in the comments section here, suggests this may be a case of irony gone wrong rather than nefarious intentions.
Or does it come down to a repugnant example of clickbait? I’ve now learned a new term for that in German: Quotenjägergerüchteküche, which Osborne translates as “unappetizing quota-hunting-insinuation-kitchen.”
Filed under: Berlin Philharmonic, conductors, music news
