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May 8, 2025

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler

Thu, May 8, 2025, 20:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)

Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra), Daniel Barenboim (Conductor), Dorottya Láng (Mezzo-Soprano), Benjamin Bruns (Tenor)

Throughout the 60-year span of his collaboration with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim has never conducted the music of Gustav Mahler. Until now. Two late works can be heard, beginning with the expressive Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony. Painful melancholy prevails here, as it does in Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth), which looks back on the lost beauty of life. Formally located between a song cycle and a symphony, this work was, according to Mahler, “probably the most personal thing I have done so far”.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

May 9, 2025

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler

Fri, May 9, 2025, 20:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)

Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra), Daniel Barenboim (Conductor), Dorottya Láng (Mezzo-Soprano), Benjamin Bruns (Tenor)

Throughout the 60-year span of his collaboration with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim has never conducted the music of Gustav Mahler. Until now. Two late works can be heard, beginning with the expressive Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony. Painful melancholy prevails here, as it does in Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth), which looks back on the lost beauty of life. Formally located between a song cycle and a symphony, this work was, according to Mahler, “probably the most personal thing I have done so far”.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

May 10, 2025

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler

Sat, May 10, 2025, 19:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)

Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra), Daniel Barenboim (Conductor), Dorottya Láng (Mezzo-Soprano), Benjamin Bruns (Tenor)

Throughout the 60-year span of his collaboration with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim has never conducted the music of Gustav Mahler. Until now. Two late works can be heard, beginning with the expressive Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony. Painful melancholy prevails here, as it does in Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth), which looks back on the lost beauty of life. Formally located between a song cycle and a symphony, this work was, according to Mahler, “probably the most personal thing I have done so far”.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

May 14, 2025

Kirill Petrenko with Mahler’s Ninth

Wed, May 14, 2025, 20:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)

Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra), Kirill Petrenko (Conductor)

The Ninth Symphony is Gustav Mahler’s last completed work – an expressive farewell and at the same time a visionary anticipation of musical modernism. Since Mahler did not live to see the premiere of his Ninth, he could not complete his customary final revisions of the instrumental balance. “This provides a special challenge for all those who interpret this musical testament when examining the musical text,” says Kirill Petrenko. He is joined in this delicate task by the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

May 15, 2025

Kirill Petrenko with Mahler’s Ninth

Thu, May 15, 2025, 20:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Main Auditorium (Berlin)

Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra), Kirill Petrenko (Conductor)

The Ninth Symphony is Gustav Mahler’s last completed work – an expressive farewell and at the same time a visionary anticipation of musical modernism. Since Mahler did not live to see the premiere of his Ninth, he could not complete his customary final revisions of the instrumental balance. “This provides a special challenge for all those who interpret this musical testament when examining the musical text,” says Kirill Petrenko. He is joined in this delicate task by the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

May 17, 2025

Mahler Festival: Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker: Symphony No. 9

Sat, May 17, 2025, 20:15

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko (Conductor)

One of the world's most legendary orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker, has been led by Kirill Petrenko for several years. Upon his appointment, Die Welt called him 'the world's most unknown famous conductor'. Petrenko hardly ever gives interviews, so he can totally focus on the music. Today, that music comes from a man who once also conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker: Gustav Mahler. You will hear the Ninth Symphony.'Youth gone, love blown away', Mahler noted in the score of his Ninth Symphony. Like no other work in his 'small family' of symphonies, the Ninth treats extremes. It is a farewell to life, but at the same time an ode to its beauty. Presence, absence, even of sounds: Mahler plays with them, with picture-perfect results. Sometimes called the 'completion of Romanticism', the symphony was the last one Mahler would complete.

Info & Ticket (www.concertgebouw.nl)

May 18, 2025

Mahler Festival: Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker - Symphony No. 10 & Das Lied von der Erde

Sun, May 18, 2025, 20:15

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim (Conductor), Dorottya Láng (Mezzo-Soprano), Benjamin Bruns (Tenor)

One of the world's most legendary orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker, will be led by Daniel Barenboim on the final night of the Mahler Festival. 'The Tenth is and remains music of the future,' the legendary pianist and conductor says of Mahler's swan song. He also conducts the impressive non-symphony Das Lied von der Erde. Vocal soloists in Das Lied are Dorottya Láng and Benjamin Bruns.The world is turning - roughly the tenor of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. In texts inspired by Chinese poems, life is seen as a continuous stage of transition. In both this work and the Tenth Symphony, the idea of mortality played a major role. Mahler knew he was incurably ill, and had also lost his infant daughter. He had lost everything and had to 'learn to walk like a newborn again', he wrote to a friend. That did not come to pass. Of the Tenth Symphony, he completed only the stirring Adagio, performed tonight by the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Info & Ticket (www.concertgebouw.nl)

May 20, 2025

Guest performance Brussels Kirill Petrenko with Mahler’s Ninth

Tue, May 20, 2025, 20:00

Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels)

Kirill Petrenko (Conductor), Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra)

The Ninth Symphony is Gustav Mahler’s last completed work – an expressive farewell and at the same time a visionary anticipation of musical modernism. Since Mahler did not live to see the premiere of his Ninth, he could not complete his customary final revisions of the instrumental balance. “This provides a special challenge for all those who interpret this musical testament when examining the musical text,” says Kirill Petrenko. He is joined in this delicate task by the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

May 21, 2025

Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko

Wed, May 21, 2025, 20:00

Kölner Philharmonie (Köln)

Berliner Philharmoniker (Ensemble), Kirill Petrenko (Conductor)

While composing his Ninth Symphony, Gustav Mahler declared, "I am thirstier for life than ever." The Berlin Philharmonic, under Kirill Petrenko, explores this tension-filled work. Despite moments of defiance, rawness, and humor, the grand apotheotic breakthroughs of earlier symphonies fade. The sound becomes increasingly gentle, transparent, and finally dissolves into peaceful acceptance.

Info & Ticket (www.koelner-philharmonie.de)

May 22, 2025

Guest performance Kirill Petrenko with Mahler’s Ninth

Thu, May 22, 2025, 19:00

Philharmonie Essen (Essen)

Kirill Petrenko (Conductor), Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra)

The Ninth Symphony is Gustav Mahler’s last completed work – an expressive farewell and at the same time a visionary anticipation of musical modernism. Since Mahler did not live to see the premiere of his Ninth, he could not complete his customary final revisions of the instrumental balance. “This provides a special challenge for all those who interpret this musical testament when examining the musical text,” says Kirill Petrenko. He is joined in this delicate task by the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

Kirill Petrenko Berliner Philharmoniker

Thu, May 22, 2025, 19:00

Theater und Philharmonie Essen, Alfried Krupp Saal (Essen)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko (Conductor)

Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2019/20, directs Mahler's 9th Symphony in Essen. Born in Omsk, Petrenko strives for a unique orchestral sound, evident in his interpretation of Mahler's final completed work, a magical piece bridging Romantic and modern eras.

Info & Ticket (www.theater-essen.de)