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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 20:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Voces Suaves, Georg Kallweit (Violin)

In their first joint programme, Akamus and the award-winning Basel vocal ensemble Voces Suaves present musical highlights from the generation of German composers before Johann Sebastian Bach and thus the impressive musical world into which he was born. The programme includes works by the extended Bach family as well as by composers who are largely unknown today and who preceded the later Thomaskantor in his important positions in Mühlhausen, Weimar and Leipzig. From the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach, the double-choir motet ‘Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf’ will be performed..

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February 13, 2025

Dichterliebe recomposed

Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 20:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto-Saal (Berlin)

Horenstein Ensemble, Edgaras Montvidas (Tenor), Yuan Yu (Flute), Johanna Pichlmair (Violin), Jana Krämer-Forster (Violin), Matthias Benker (Viola), Andreas Timm (Cello), Ralf Forster (Clarinet), Ronith Mues (Harp), Jan Westermann (Percussion), Michal Friedlander (Piano), Katrin Bethge (Projections), Christian Jost (Conductor)

Love, loneliness and human finiteness: eternal themes run through the 16 songs of Robert Schumann's famous ‘Dichterliebe’ (Poet's Love) on poems by Heinrich Heine in a seemingly harmless folk song tone. In a double sense, everything is in flux here: the inner life of the protagonist, who vacillates between pain, doubt and happiness, and the mythical world of the past - symbolised by the Rhine, which winds its way through several verses. Composer Christian Jost took a close look at the work and embedded it in a completely newly composed soundscape. The harmonies and the spirit of Schumann are preserved, space and time are dissolved: ‘With Schumann and Heine, each individual song is self-contained. Each one is a frozen memory, the atmospheric condensation of a journey into the inner life of its protagonist, whose spiritual landscape unfolds before us piece by piece. In my work, the 16 songs of the cycle appear like islands, surrounded by the sounds and harmonies of which they are the nucleus and inspiration.’ Christian Jost does not tell a chronological story in his work. Supported by the projections of Katrin Bethge, individual windows into the human soul open up again and again in surprising ways. The Horenstein Ensemble already performed the world premiere in 2017.

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March 1, 2025

Vasily Petrenko conducts Britten, Ravel & Rimski-Korsakow

Sat, Mar 1, 2025, 20:00

Konzerthaus Berlin (Berlin)

Vasily Petrenko (Conductor), Véronique Gens (Mezzo-Soprano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

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March 15, 2025

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, William Christie

Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 20:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, William Christie (Conductor), Les Arts Florissants, Melissa Petit (Soprano), Beth Taylor (Alto), Bastien Rimondi (Tenor), Andreas Wolf (Bass)

„It's the sound in particular. Nobody else has it in this way [...] . And I think it's also the way you present the music to the audience. For me, it's very important that you have very quick access to the audience.“ This is how the renowned American baroque specialist, conductor and harpsichordist William Christie describes the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants, which he has led since 1979. The Konzerthausorchester is hosting them for the first time to perform Mozart and Haydn together - the latter fits in perfectly with the orchestra's focus on Haydn's works over several seasons. The „Litaniae Lauretanae“ KV 195 from 1774 is one of four litanies or supplications that Mozart composed in Salzburg during the course of his life. The name „Lauretana“ refers to the Marian devotion reflected in it. Due to its large orchestration and virtuoso solo parts, the work is one of the „Litaniae solemnes“ that were performed in Salzburg Cathedral. Joseph Haydn's Missa in B flat major or „Harmoniemesse“ was composed in 1802 and is the last of the six great mass compositions that - alongside The Creation and The Seasons - brought his vocal works to a crowning conclusion and his last completed composition. It was given its name because of the important „harmony-filling“ role of the obbligato wind parts.

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March 16, 2025

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, William Christie

Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 16:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, William Christie (Conductor), Les Arts Florissants, Melissa Petit (Soprano), Beth Taylor (Alto), Bastien Rimondi (Tenor), Andreas Wolf (Bass)

„It's the sound in particular. Nobody else has it in this way [...] . And I think it's also the way you present the music to the audience. For me, it's very important that you have very quick access to the audience.“ This is how the renowned American baroque specialist, conductor and harpsichordist William Christie describes the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants, which he has led since 1979. The Konzerthausorchester is hosting them for the first time to perform Mozart and Haydn together - the latter fits in perfectly with the orchestra's focus on Haydn's works over several seasons. The „Litaniae Lauretanae“ KV 195 from 1774 is one of four litanies or supplications that Mozart composed in Salzburg during the course of his life. The name „Lauretana“ refers to the Marian devotion reflected in it. Due to its large orchestration and virtuoso solo parts, the work is one of the „Litaniae solemnes“ that were performed in Salzburg Cathedral. Joseph Haydn's Missa in B flat major or „Harmoniemesse“ was composed in 1802 and is the last of the six great mass compositions that - alongside The Creation and The Seasons - brought his vocal works to a crowning conclusion and his last completed composition. It was given its name because of the important „harmony-filling“ role of the obbligato wind parts.

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April 8, 2025

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 19:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle (Conductor), Elisabeth Breuer (Soprano), Anna Lucia Richter (Mezzo-Soprano), Patrick Grahl (Tenor), Thomas Hobbs (Tenor), Matthew Brook (Bass), Stephan Loges (Bass)

Really old and extremely lively: For many seasons now, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has been demonstrating how thrilling music from the 17th to the early 19th century can sound in its own series at the Konzerthaus Berlin.Bach's „St Matthew Passion“ was premiered for the second time in 1829 - in the Singakademie building in Berlin, which is now home to the Maxim Gorki Theatre. The conductor was Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who was only twenty years old. He paved the way for a Bach renaissance with the version he arranged and shortened. In the era of Viennese Classicism, Bach's music had simply hardly ever been performed. The Passion, however, which was first presented to the congregation of St Thomas' Church in Leipzig in 1727, is one of the most haunting musical depictions of the story of the crucifixion.

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April 10, 2025

Mittendrin

Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 18:30

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Iván Fischer (Conductor)

Right in the middle – pick your favourite spot in the midst of the orchestra! The musicians of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin will rearrange themselves for you. Experience music where it is created and feel the special atmosphere that arises between the orchestral members and our conductor while making music. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask Iván Fischer questions. In the end, you will definitely be able to say: I was right in the thick of things, not just on the sidelines.

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April 11, 2025

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Iván Fischer

Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 19:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Iván Fischer (Conductor), Lawrence Power (Viola), Sarah Maria Sun (Soprano)

Our honorary conductor Iván Fischer is a guarantee for unusual programmes. This time, he and the Konzerthausorchester will perform works by four composers who were ostracised and persecuted by the National Socialists and whose works shaped the avant-garde of the interwar period. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler found their way to the United States via detours, but Erwin Schulhoff was interned in Prague, deported and died of tuberculosis in a camp in Bavaria.

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April 13, 2025

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Iván Fischer

Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 16:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Iván Fischer (Conductor), Lawrence Power (Viola), Sarah Maria Sun (Soprano)

Our honorary conductor Iván Fischer is a guarantee for unusual programmes. This time, he and the Konzerthausorchester will perform works by four composers who were ostracised and persecuted by the National Socialists and whose works shaped the avant-garde of the interwar period. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler found their way to the United States via detours, but Erwin Schulhoff was interned in Prague, deported and died of tuberculosis in a camp in Bavaria.

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April 18, 2025

Konzert zum Karfreitag

Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 19:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle (Conductor), Navid Kermani (Narrator), Kateryna Kasper (Soprano), Katie Bray (Alto), Robert Murray (Tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Bass)

Haydn's composition is characterised by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. It was initially conceived as a purely instrumental composition - meditation music in seven slow movements with a prelude and final movement („Il Terremoto“ - the earthquake) for a Passion service. However, when Haydn heard an arrangement of his work with a German text in Passau in 1794, he was inspired to write his own vocal version. The premiere took place in Vienna in 1796. With the flourishing of choral societies in the 19th century, this vocal version of the Seven Words became one of the most frequently performed pieces of Passion music ever.

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May 26, 2025

Liedstadt & Ensemble Resonanz

Mon, May 26, 2025, 19:00

Konzerthaus Berlin, Kleiner Saal (Berlin)

Mais Harb (Voice), Hêja Netirk (Voice), Julian Prégardien (Tenor), Faleh Khaless (Oud), Deniz Mahir Kartal (Flute), Hozan Safear (Perkussion), Musiker*innen des Ensemble Resonanz, Kinderchor der Al-Farabi Musikakademie

Mais Harb, Hêja Netirk and Julian Prégardien - three first-class singers share their favorite songs and reinterpret them together with the musicians of Ensemble Resonanz and guests. Experimental Kurdish music by Hêja Netirk meets Franz Schubert sung by Julian Prégardien. Mais Harb's Arabic songs resound with a fresh string sound. Melodies from Germany, Kurdistan, Syria, Austria and Iran combine with the support of the children's choir of the Al-Farabi Music Academy to create a genuine Berlin song recital.

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