Performer: David Zinman| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Saturday 18-Oct-08 |
 Philharmonie: Großer Saal, BerlinBeethoven - Berio - Lieberson |
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| Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin, D10785 Berlin, Germany Saturday 18-Oct-08 Beethoven - Berio - Lieberson In a letter to the concert agent Johann Peter Salomon, Ludwig van Beethoven described his Seventh Symphony as “one of my best”. The work, premiered in the months after Napoleon’s defeat in the Battle of Leipzig, was later considered to be the counterpart to the Eroica, as well as symphonic variation on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and referred to as an “apotheosis of the dance” (Richard Wagner). The breadth of possible modes of interpretation speaks for itself: with its sometimes heroic, sometimes light-hearted, transitionally pensive, and once again entrancingly optimistic score, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony reads and sounds almost like a compendium of its composer’s inexhaustible means of expression. The concert is opened with Luciano Berio’s ingenious arrangement of 18th century music, followed by Peter Lieberson’s autobiographically inspired musical setting of love poems by the Chilean author Pablo Neruda. | ||
| Saturday 25-Oct-08 |
Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin Elgar - Bartók / Shaham - Zinman |
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| Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin, D10785 Berlin, Germany Saturday 25-Oct-08 Elgar - Bartók / Shaham - Zinman In the past, Great Britain has often been referred to as a “land without music”, underlining the widespread continental opinion that the British Isles had not brought forth any composers of international rank. Obviously a mistake, especially since a whole line of internationally renowned composers emerged from England in the first decades of the last century. Among them Edward Elgar, who was born in 1857. Richard Strauss is said to have called him the “front man” of English music, and back home he has long been known as the “grand old man”. In an utterly compelling manner, Elgar’s Violin Concerto from 1910 reveals how subtly he was able to combine modernist tendencies with late Romantic influences. No one has ever doubted the rich traditions of Hungarian music, which prepared the ground for the timelessly clear music of Béla Bartók, who was born in 1881. Bartók’s Concert for Orchestra, first performed in 1944, is a sparkling treasure chest of musical ideas – and, like Elgars Violin Concerto, a must-see for any fan of classical music! | ||
| Saturday 15-Jan-11 08:00pm |
Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin, D10785 Berlin, Germany Saturday 15-Jan-11 08:00pm Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Hillborg, Anders (b. 1954), New Work (World Première, commission of Berlin Philharmonic and Tonhalle Zürich) | ||
