Join us LIVE in the Digital Concert Hall at 7 pm (Berlin time): Klaus Mäkelä conducts Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Andrew Norman’s Play with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
More than a century separates these two works, yet both are shaped by ideas of movement and control. Drawing on Russian folklore, Stravinsky contrasts folk-inspired melodies with the music of Katschei’s dark world, while Andrew Norman approaches the orchestra itself as a shifting network of exchanges.
Watch live in the Digital Concert Hall. Link in bio.
📸 Photos by Stephan Rabold
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The "Glagolitic Mass" stands among Leoš Janáček's most singular creations. Written for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra, it sets an Old Church Slavonic text and transforms it into something entirely its own.
Discover the full performance, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in the Digital Concert Hall. Link in bio.
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A century separates Stravinsky's The Firebird and Andrew Norman's Play. Klaus Mäkelä invites you to watch both works LIVE with the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Digital Concert Hall this Saturday!
Link in bio.
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💔🎵 Few orchestral works move between such extremes – the torment of hell and the tenderness of a love remembered. Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini. Now streaming in the Digital Concert Hall – link in bio.
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🎶🐦 Before The Firebird, Stravinsky set aside an unfinished opera about a nightingale. By the time he returned to it, his musical language had been transformed. Pierre Boulez conducts Le Rossignol, with Barbara Hannigan as soloist. Now streaming in the Digital Concert Hall – link in bio.
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Andrew Norman's "Sabina", as realised by Kirill Petrenko, grows out of the composer's experience at Santa Sabina in Rome at dawn, where sunrise through translucent stone windows filled the church with shifting light across marble and mosaic. The impression became the basis of the work.
This week, the Berliner Philharmoniker presents the premiere of Norman's "Play", conducted by Klaus Mäkelä. The work turns on questions of power, manipulation, and control.
Listen to "Sabina" and tune in on 9 May for the premiere of "Play", all in the Digital Concert Hall.
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Described by Tchaikovsky himself as a requiem, the "Pathétique" is inspired by the eternal themes of human existence and of art: life and death, love and abandonment, as well as rebellion, struggle, resignation, and despair.
Ahead of his return this week, revisit Klaus Mäkelä's 2023 performance of Symphony No. 6 with the Berliner Philharmoniker in the Digital Concert Hall.
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🎭🎶 A puppet who comes to life, falls in love, and meets his fate at a Russian fair. Stravinsky called Petrushka "a bittersweet love story" — Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in this beloved ballet. Now streaming in the Digital Concert Hall – link in bio. #BerlinPhil #DigitalConcertHall #KirillPetrenko #Stravinsky
This week, Klaus Mäkela conducts Stravinsky’s fairy tale ballet “The Firebird” 🔥🩰 – a piece that would define the young composer’s career.
Want to experience this concert live? Few tickets are still available via link in bio.
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🏔️🌲With Eine Alpensinfonie, Richard Strauss takes us on a journey through the Alps, beginning in darkness before dawn and ending only with the return of night.
Watch the full performance from last year with Klaus Mäkelä in the Digital Concert Hall. Link in bio.
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💛#MotivationMonday: starting the week with the majestic final movement of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, conducted by Susanna Mälkki in 2017.
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