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Musikfest Berlin
Compositions are created during the most varied stages of life, influenced by inner conflicts and social crises. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony combines reflective works from different eras in its concert at the Musikfest Berlin. Gustav Mahler worked on his unfinished 10th Symphony towards the end of his life during a period of intense physical and mental suffering. While Rebecca Saunders explores the limits of individual expression in her work for piano and orchestra “to an utterance”, in which the solo piano part played by the fascinating pianist Tamara Stefanovich is placed firmly in the foreground, the eight French horns in Helmut Lachenmann’s “My Melodies” form a homogeneous solo ensemble whose tonal potential is exploited to the full.
Program and cast
hr-Sinfonieorchester
Matthias Hermann, conductor
Tamara Stefanovich, piano
Marc Gruber, french horn
Kristian Katzenberger, french horn
Maciej Baranowski, french horn
Michael Armbruster, french horn
Charles Petit french, horn
Thomas Sonnen, french horn
Gerda Sperlich, french horn
Andreas Kreuzhuber, french horn
Programme
Rebecca Saunders
to an utterance for piano and orchestra
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 10: 1st Movement Adagio
Helmut Lachenmann
My Melodies Music for 8 Horns and Orchestra
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture.
The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall, an area that for decades suffered from isolation and drabness but that today offers ideal centrality, greenness, and accessibility. Its cross street and postal address is Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The neighborhood, often dubbed the Kulturforum, can be reached on foot from the Potsdamer Platz station.
Actually a two-venue facility with connecting lobby, the Philharmonie comprises a Großer Saal of 2,440 seats for orchestral concerts and a chamber-music hall, the Kammermusiksaal, of 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller venue was added only in the 1980s.
By subway (U-Bahn):
Lines U2 (Bahnhöfe Potsdamer Platz or MendelssohnBartholdy-Park)
By city train (S-Bahn):
Lines S1, S2, S25 (Potsdamer Platz)
By regional train:
Lines RE3, RE4, RE5 (Potsdamer Platz)
By bus directly to the Philharmonie:
Lines 200 (Philharmonie), M48, M85 (Kulturforum or Varian-Fry-Straße),
Further bus lines: M29 (Potsdamer Brücke), M41 (Potsdamer Platz)
By car:
A limited number of parking spaces are available on the Philharmonie property. Please use the parking garages under the Sony Center and under the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden (Entrance at Reichpietschufer).
By bycicle:
A limited number of bycicle stands are available on front and behind the Philharmonie. Additional stands can be found in front of the State Library (Staatsbibliothek) across the street.
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