"Crystalline elemental force"

"Crystalline elemental force" NEW IN THE ARCHIVE: KIRILL PETRENKO CONDUCTS MOZART AND TCHAIKOVSKY a (Photo: Monika Rittorshaus) Rarely does the public look forward to a concert with such anticipation and expectations as it did for the recent appearance by Kirill Petrenko: his first guest appearance with the Berliner Philharmoniker since the orchestra elected him their future chief conductor in 2015. The evening had an auspicious start: "The control with which every tone detail unfolded and a musically downright explosive tension brought the audience to their feet even after Mozart's Haffner Symphony" (Suddeutsche Zeitung). John Adams's moving American civil war lament The Wound-Dresser with baritone Georg Nigl was then followed by Tchaikaysky's Pathetique. "The Philharmoniker unleash a power that drives into every register, clear and implacable, polyphonic and inevitable. Petrenko sweeps all sentimentality from the score. And suddenly it is there, a descent into hell of crystalline elemental force, harshly dragging our hopes and expectations along with it — EFTA00646078 and only in doing so, opens our ears to the volatile miracle of music" (Der Tagesspiegel). The audience responded with standing ovations and cheers as are not experienced every day — even in the Berlin Philharmonie. READ MORE Disturbingly intense NEW IN THE ARCHIVE: SIMON RATTLE CONDUCTS 'SLUEBEARD'S CASTLE" p p HK Gruber lives up to his reputation as a composer of witty, rhythmically complex and masterfully orchestrated works in his First Piano Concerto, whose German premiere was given here by Sir Simon Rattle and Emanuel Ax. The second part of the concert continued with Bola Bartok's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, a showpiece for Sir Simon and the Berliner Philharmoniker. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote about the singers: "Shaham as Judith, a soprano gifted with translucent top notes and an almost unbelievable, even uncanny lower register, was all charm and curiosity in her questions and demands before becoming stubbornly determined. Bretz as Bluebeard fulfils her wish to unlock all the chambers of his past with generosity and an almost pitiful concem for her well-being. A fantastic singer, with natural diction and distinctive, disturbingly intense vocal colouring!" READ MORE EFTA00646079 Fabulously beautiful NEW IN THE ARCHIVE: 'LATE NIGHT" CONCERT WITH SIMON .tATTLE AND MAGDALENA KO2ENA p In this Late Night concert, the wonderful mezzo-soprano Magdalena Koiena sang Maurice Ravel's fabulously beautiful Trois Poems de Stephane MaHanna for voice and chamber ensemble, plus Luciano Berio's Sequenza Ill, full of vocal acrobatics and comedic effects. The latter is part of a fourteen-part cycle of virtuoso solo pieces that have been performed regularly in recent years by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. The final work in this atmospheric programme was Berio's Laborintus Il, in which the Italian avant-gardist brings recitation, singing, electronic and instrumental music together to create in an intriguing, Dante-referenced montage. The young musicians of the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker played under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. READ MORE Your access to the Digital Concert Hall TICKETS, SUBSCRIPTION AND GIFT CERTIFICATES EFTA00646080 The Digital Concert Hall is the online concert venue or the Berliner Philharmonike . Here. their concerts are broadcast live and are also available as recordings in a video archive a few days later. The Digital Concert Hall is available on televisions. computers. smartphones. tablets and streaming devices. Its partners are Panasonic and Internet Initiative Japan. More at Ppownload on the App Store Get it on Google Play Wyai'able on Kindle Fire you no longer wan to receive ow Berlin Phil Melia GmbH Geschaltslatver. emir, newsletter you may Leipziper Plalz 1 Graf Maninger. Robed Zrnmermann titetmeeta horn 10117 Berlin Handelsregisler BerlinGhartottenburg Mite us SIRB 113698 UsbidNr. DE260440601 EFTA00646081