Season 2017/18
SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF
BACH PARTITAS
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
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Sir András Schiff has spent many years probing the inexhaustible riches of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He now continues his series of lecture concerts with a presentation of the six partitas for solo piano. Two evenings will be devoted to lectures (g/e), the other two to complete performances of the partitas. |
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BRITTEN, ELGAR
Sunday, 24 June 2018
15:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
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Zwei Meisterwerke der englischen Musik des 20. Jahrhundert stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Konzerts mit dem Boulez Ensemble: Elgars spätes Klavierquintett erklingt neben Brittens Sinfonietta. Sir Antonio Pappano, musikalischer Leiter des Royal Opera House in London, ist als Pianist und Dirigent zu erleben. |
TILL BRÖNNER & GUESTS
Monday, 25 June 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
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One of a handful of German jazz musicians known around the world, trumpeter Till Brönner is equally acclaimed as a performer and musical ambassador and has won new audiences for jazz. He comes to the Pierre Boulez Saal to host „Talking Jazz“, a new series of concerts and conversations featuring international guest stars. |
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Kinan Azmeh, his ensemble Hewar, and the Armenian Gurdjieff Ensemble shine a musical spotlight on the cultural history of their two. The concert explores the interaction between two different cultures that live in close physical association and is both a tribute to the people of Syria and a wish for sustained peace. |
SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, BRAHMS
Friday, 29 June 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
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Marlis Petersen zählt auch als Konzert- und Liedinterpretin zu den herausragenden Künstlerinnen unserer Zeit. Gemeinsam mit Stephan Matthias Lademann gestaltet sie ein Programm, das Goethes „Lied der Mignon“ mit Werken des jugendlichen Komponisten und Liedern aus seinen letzten Lebensjahren effektvoll kontrastiert. |
LAHAV SHANI
SCRIABIN, PROKOFIEV, MUSSORGSKY
Sunday, 1 July 2018
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
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Young Israeli pianist and conductor Lahav Shani - who will also appear at the Pierre Boulez Saal this season together with the Staatskapelle Berlin - performs a demanding program of Russian works, including sonatas by Scriabin and Prokofiev and Mussorgsky´s „Pictures at an Exhibition“. |
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BOULEZ ENSEMBLE & DANIEL BARENBOIM
RAVEL, REIMANN, BEETHOVEN
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
19:30
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For the season finale, the Boulez Ensemble and Daniel Barenboim premiere a new work by German composer Aribert Reimann. The evening is bookended by Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello and Beethoven’s E-flat major Piano Trio, with Barenboim at the keyboard. |
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Season 2018/19
WEBERN, SCHUMANN, BOULEZ
Sunday, 9 September 2018
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
When Berlin’s new concert hall opened its doors on March 4, 2017, one of the pieces on the program was Pierre Boulez’s sur Incises. Now this landmark work by the hall’s spiritual patron returns to raise the curtain on its third season.
BERG, GRISEY, BOULEZ
Monday, 10 September 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal together with artistic director Matthias Pintscher. Salomé Haller is the soloist in Boulez’s Le Marteau sans maître, the work that established the 30-year-old composer’s international reputation.
CHAMBER MUSIC
Thursday, 13 September 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Duos and trios, compositions of French and German origin, youthful pieces and late works—the program that French oboist François Leleux has curated for the Pierre Boulez Saal offers a variety of connections and contrasts.
NASEER SHAMMA
Sunday, 23 September 2018
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Music, visual art, and film are all part of the second Arabic Music Days, curated by Iraqi oud master Naseer Shamma.
MENAHEM PRESSLER
MOZART, SCHUMANN, CHOPIN
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Menahem Pressler, born in 1923, has performed on the world’s leading concert stages for more than 70 years. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, he performs a selection of some of the most beloved works of the Classical and Romantic eras and the early 20th century.
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SOLO RECITAL
Sunday, 30 September 2018
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Isabelle Faust combines works by Baroque violin masters Guillemain, Pisendel, and Biber with miniatures by contemporary composers, including Heinz Holliger’s Drei kleine Szenen, which are dedicated to her.
BEETHOVEN, SKALKOTTAS, BRAHMS
Thursday, 4 October 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Young Jordanian pianist Karim Said has already been heard at the Pierre Boulez Saal as a member of the Boulez Ensemble. Now he makes his solo debut with a program encompassing four eras of music history.
HELLAS
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Prominent artists and soloists, together with the Boulez Ensemble, present a stylistically wide-ranging program that marks the core of this season’s focus on Greece. The centerpiece is the 1931 Octet by Nikos Skalkottas.
CONCERT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
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The first concert for children and adults of the 2018–19 season is an hour-long journey through time and around the world, following in the footsteps of music lover Professor Hoggins.
MOZART, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
One of the foremost fortepiano virtuosos of our time, Andreas Staier has set standards particularly with his interpretations of the works of the Viennese Classics.
SCHUBERT SONGS
Saturday, 20 October 2018
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Soprano Mojca Erdmann presents the season’s first Schubert recital, which continues the multi-year project of performing the composer’s complete songs.
BEETHOVEN SONATAS I
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Friday, 26 October 2018
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Following his successful Schubert sonata cycle in the opening season, Daniel Barenboim now takes on the complete sonatas of Beethoven. The project, scheduled to run over two seasons, will conclude in the Beethoven Year 2020.
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
Saturday, 27 October 2018
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In the annual Wasmuth Lectures, renowned authors and scholars address philosophical, political, and artistic issues of our time. This year’s lecturer is Stephen Greenblatt, a leading literary scholar.
MUSIC AND DANCE FROM SOUTHERN IRAN
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The three musicians, who regularly collaborate with colleagues from the worlds of jazz and classical music, bring their dynamic artistry to the Pierre Boulez Saal.
BELLINI, VERDI, BERNSTEIN
Thursday, 1 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The five musicians from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala perform arrangements from operas by Verdi, Bellini, and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as compositions by Davide Sanson and Eugène Bozza.
SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN
Sunday, 4 November 2018
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Baritone Gyula Orendt has his solo debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal: he takes on the German Romantic repertoire, including a selection of Schubert songs and Schumann’s Liederkreis on poems by Eichendorff.
LETTERS FROM WORLD WAR I
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Jürgen Flimm, acclaimed stage director and former intendant of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, brings an intensely personal project to the Pierre Boulez Saal.
SHOSTAKOVICH, MENDELSSOHN, RAVEL
Friday, 9 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Three prominent artists and celebrated soloists unite for a concert that offers a chance to rediscover the intimate genre of the piano trio.
SHOSTAKOVICH, SKALKOTTAS, LISZT
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Yulianne Avdeeva opens her recital with Shostakovich’s radical First Piano Sonata. Bach’s French Overture is juxtaposed with a related 20th-century work by Nikos Skalkottas. Liszt’s monumental B-minor Sonata concludes the program.
MOZART, BARTÓK, SIBELIUS
Thursday, 15 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Classical elegance, expressionist rhythms, and “intimate voices”—the program of the Tetzlaff Quartett brings together compositions from the 18th and 20th centuries in an inspiring dialogue.
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
LAMENT
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Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Lament - a deeply moving, highly acclaimed memorial against violence and horror, can be seen and heard live one last time for three performances only at the Pierre Boulez Saal.
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SOLO
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
One of the most lyrical voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau, presents an intimate solo program.
SCHUBERT, SCHOENBERG, WEBERN
Thursday, 22 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Two sonatas by Franz Schubert and the popular “Wanderer” Fantasy—arguably the composer’s most technically challenging piano piece—provide the framework for Elisabeth Leonskaja’s solo recital.
VOCES SUAVES
BAROCKTAGE I
Saturday, 24 November 2018
15:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Swiss vocal ensemble Voces Suaves combines Monteverdi madrigals with Austrian composer Beat Furrer’s Sei voci, written in 2017, whose text is based on the “Coro delle Baccanti” from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
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AKADEMIE FÜR ALTE MUSIK BERLIN
BAROCKTAGE II
Sunday, 25 November 2018
11:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Swiss vocal ensemble Voces Suaves combines Monteverdi madrigals with Austrian composer Beat Furrer’s Sei voci, written in 2017, whose text is based on the “Coro delle Baccanti” from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
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LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE
Monday, 26 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
François-Xavier Roth, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, and the Boulez Ensemble return to Le Marteau sans maître, which they first performed together at the Pierre Boulez Saal in March 2017
MOZART, BARTÓK, MENDELSSOHN
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The Belcea Quartet returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal as ensemble in residence during the 2018–19 season, performing a series of three concerts that contrast Classical and Romantic repertoire with landmark works of the 20th century.
JORDI SAVALL
BAROCKTAGE III
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Jordi Savall, his Capella Reial de Catalunya, and Le Concert des Nations take on madrigals of love and war and instrumental works by Monteverdi.
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BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, PROKOFIEV
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The violin sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms form the core of the duo repertoire. Nikolaj Znaider and Robert Kulek, who have been performing together for a number of years, make their joint debuts at the Pierre Boulez Saal with a program whose first half is dedicated to these two masters.
CONCERT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
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Monday, 10 December 2018
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Even real musical heroes sometimes need to pluck up their courage to meet unexpected challenges. This is what HEROÏCA is about. Music from five centuries includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré, Gustav Holst, Luciano Berio, and others.
BEETHOVEN SONATAS II
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Saturday, 15 December 2018
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Following his successful Schubert sonata cycle in the opening season, Daniel Barenboim now takes on the complete sonatas of Beethoven. The project, scheduled to run over two seasons, will conclude in the Beethoven Year 2020.
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Sunday, 16 December 2018
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Jörg Widmann is joined by the young German Goldmund Quartett in works by Carl Maria von Weber, whose friendship with the clarinetist Heinrich Baermann resulted in some of the most beautiful works written for this instrument.
DOCH BIN ICH NIRGEND, ACH! ZU HAUS
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Wednesday, 19 December 2018
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Thursday, 20 December 2018
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In this unique music-theater performance, the ten-piece Musicbanda Franui and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan explore the character of the wanderer. The second collaboration of this group of artists, combines puppetry, recitation, and music inspired by the works of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Mahler.
MADRIGALS AND MOTETS
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Sunday, 6 January 2019
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Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano interpret a selection of madrigals by Monteverdi and some of his lesser known contemporaries.
BRAHMS I
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Saturday, 12 January 2019
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Monday, 14 January 2019
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Since first performing together as a quartet approximately ten years ago, the four principal string players of the Staatskapelle Berlin have made a name for themselves as a permanent ensemble. Following their acclaimed Schubert cycle in 2017–18, they now embark on a four-part survey of the works of Johannes Brahms.
SØRENSEN, SMETANA, BEETHOVEN
Sunday, 13 January 2019
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
For their debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Trio con Brio Copenhagen will perform Bent Sørensen’s 2007 Phantasmagoria as well as Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor and Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio.
MOZART
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Saturday, 19 January 2019
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Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
As a trio, Daniel Barenboim, Michael Barenboim, and Kian Soltani last season performed the piano trios of Beethoven. The venture continues with Mozart’s complete piano trios.
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER
Sunday, 20 January 2019
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Komponist Matthias Pintscher steht am Dirigentenpult für die Uraufführung des neues Werks, das er für Daniel Barenboim und das Boulez Ensemble geschrieben hat.
ABRAHAMSEN, HAYDN, FOLK SONGS
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Equally at home in the classical repertoire, contemporary works, and the Scandinavian folk music tradition, the quartet has chosen a program that brings together all three aspects for its debut in Berlin.
SKALKOTTAS, BARTÓK, STRAUSS
Saturday, 2 February 2019
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Korean violinist Jiyoon Lee, and Italian pianist Giuseppe Guarrera, take on four highly individual 20th-century compositions, including two works by Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas, a student of Schoenberg.
DIALOGUE DE L'OMBRE DOUBLE
Monday, 4 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
According to Jörg Widmann, Pierre Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double is a “Mount Everest of the clarinet repertoire.” He performs the piece—written in 1984 and scored for solo clarinet and live electronics—in a lecture concert.
SOLO RECITAL
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Michael Barenboim belongs to a small group of violinists who perform music of the Baroque, 19th-century virtuoso repertoire, and compositions of our time with equal depth and mastery. In his solo recital, he tracks 250 years of Italian violin music.
MANY PIANOS
Friday, 8 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov makes his Pierre Boulez Saal debut with a fascinating project, entitled “Many Pianos”: performing on five different historic instruments he embarks on a journey through three centuries of piano repertoire, performing fantasies by composers from Bach to Schnittke.
BEETHOVEN SONATAS III
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Monday, 11 February 2019
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Following his successful Schubert sonata cycle in the opening season, Daniel Barenboim now takes on the complete sonatas of Beethoven. The project, scheduled to run over two seasons, will conclude in the Beethoven Year 2020.
WAGNER, SCHOENBERG, BEETHOVEN
Sunday, 17 February 2019
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Three symphonic works of highly different character serve as the calling card of the Kammerakademie Potsdam and its music director, Antonello Manacorda, in Berlin’s new concert hall.
DUO RECITAL
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The Greek violinist and his Italian piano partner now make their debuts at the Pierre Boulez Saal, performing a program that will include a composition by Kavakos’s compatriot Nikos Skalkottas.
PROKOFIEV, BRAHMS, RACHMANINOFF
Thursday, 21 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández has chosen works from the 19th and 20th centuries for his debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal. His partner at the piano is Denis Kozhukhin, who has been heard multiple times at the Pierre Boulez Saal as a soloist and ensemble member.
SCHUBERT, BRITTEN, SHOSTAKOVICH
Saturday, 23 February 2019
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The second concert in the Belcea Quartet’s cycle brings together compositions by two giants of the 20th century: Britten and Shostakovich. The program opens with Schubert’s dramatic “Quartet Movement”.
SCHUBERT SONGS
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Luca Pisaroni and Malcolm Martineau present some of Schubert’s most celebrated Goethe settings, including Ganymed and Erlkönig.
CELEBRATING HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY
Thursday, 28 February 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
With a program of musical surprises, Daniel Barenboim and other prominent artists celebrate the architect of the Pierre Boulez Saal on his 90th birthday.
SCHUMANN, BARTÓK, SCHUBERT
Monday, 4 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Schubert’s last three sonatas are among the pinnacles not only of the composer’s works but of the entire Romantic piano repertoire of the early 19th century. The C-minor work D 958 makes for a weighty finale to Yefim Bronfman’s recital.
ROUSTOM, BRAHMS, JANÁČEK
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Lahav Shani leads the Boulez Ensemble in the season’s second world premiere: a violin concerto by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom, with Michael Barenboim as the soloist.
BREATH & HAMMER
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Saturday, 9 March 2019
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American clarinetist David Krakauer and South-African composer-pianist Kathleen Tagg recast works by close associates and friends from around the world.
BRAHMS, SCHOENBERG, BOULEZ
Sunday, 10 March 2019
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin, first heard at the Pierre Boulez Saal in the opening concert in March 2017, has been a regular guest in Berlin’s new concert hall ever since.
DUO RECITAL
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
As part of their joint recital, Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich perform both as soloists and as a duo. The violinist takes on two etudes composed by her brother, Jörg Widmann.
DAVE HOLLAND, NASHEET WAITS & DJANGO BATES
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The music of Anouar Brahem combines Arabic traditions with the innovative spirit of jazz. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, Brahem is joined by three masters of their craft—bass player Dave Holland, drummer Nasheet Waits, and pianist Django Bates.
SIX SUITES, SIX ECHOES
Sunday, 17 March 2019
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
For most cellists, a performance of Bach’s six solo suites in one night should mark a highlight of any concert season. Jean-Guihen Queyras goes one step further.
CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Inspired by the great saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Children of the Light brings together three artists who belong to Shorter’s musical family: Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
HAYDN, WERNICK, VERDI
Thursday, 21 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Before the string quartet repertoire takes center stage for an entire week toward the end of the season, the Pierre Boulez Saal welcomes one of the world’s most acclaimed quartet ensembles.
MONTEVERDI, D'INDIA, CASTELLO
Friday, 22 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The Italian ensemble Europa Galante is known for its performances of instrumental, vocal, and operatic repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, the musicians are joined by Ian Bostridge.
LECTURE CONCERT
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Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Following performances of the “Goldberg” Variations in the opening season and of the piano partitas in June 2018, Sir András Schiff continues his series of lecture concerts dedicated to the works of Bach.
BRAHMS, SCHUBERT, BARTÓK
Thursday, 28 March 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Among the many outstanding violinists of her generation, Norwegian Vilde Frang is known for her often very personal look at seemingly familiar repertoire. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, she is joined by German-Uzbek pianist Michail Lifits.
BOROWSKI, STAUD, BRAHMS
Thursday, 4 April 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Three contemporary compositions and an early-20th-century work precede Brahms’s Clarinet Trio in the program performed by Trio Catch.
KURTÁG, KAFKA
Saturday, 6 April 2019
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments for soprano and violin—40 movements that transform the poet’s words into music of aphoristic conciseness—were written in the 1980s. With Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust, and Dominique Horwitz.
SCHUBERT
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Taking inspiration from Beethoven’s famous Septet in E-flat major, Franz Schubert created the Octet in F major. This extraordinary work is at the center of the program featuring members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
SCHUMANN, SCHUBERT
Friday, 26 April 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Radu Lupu, one of the great interpreters of the Romantic piano repertoire, returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal with a program that combines two iconic compositions of the early 19th century.
DOWLAND, LAWES, JENKINS
Thursday, 2 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The English viol consort Phantasm and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny explore the world of John Dowland, the most prominent composer of the Elizabethan era.
BEETHOVEN SONATAS IV
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Sunday, 5 May 2019
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Following his successful Schubert sonata cycle in the opening season, Daniel Barenboim now takes on the complete sonatas of Beethoven. The project, scheduled to run over two seasons, will conclude in the Beethoven Year 2020.
BERIO, BACH/BUSONI, LISZT
Thursday, 9 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Giuseppe Guarrera performs works from three centuries that not only have a connection to his home country Italy, but also trace fascinating historical relationships.
HAYDN, POULENC, BEETHOVEN
Saturday, 11 May 2019
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
For more than four decades, the principals of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading American orchestras, have performed together as a chamber ensemble in different configurations.
BRAHMS, MUSSORGSKY, BARTÓK
Monday, 13 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Works of German Romanticism meet three rarely heard song cycles by Eastern European composers in Magdalena Kožená and Yefim Bronfman’s concert.
MARILYN CRISPELL & CARMEN CASTALDI
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Joe Lovano comes to the Pierre Boulez Saal with his new Trio Tapestry. The ensemble’s name suggests the program: together with pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi, Lovano unfurls a veritable tapestry of innovative sounds.
WIDMANN, KODÁLY, CHOPIN
Thursday, 16 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In the first part of his program, Kian Soltani performs the solo sonata by Zoltán Kodály and a new solo piece by Jörg Widmann. Together with Russian pianist Nathalia Milstein, he takes on works by Shostakovich and Chopin.
SONGS FOR DAYS TO COME
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh brings his latest collaboration to Berlin: Songs for Days to Come is a journey of music and poetry that explores themes such as home, faith, and friendship.
SAINT-SAËNS, BRITTEN, SKALKOTTAS
Thursday, 30 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Cristina Gómez Godoy concludes this season’s “Rising Stars” series together with pianist Michail Lifits. The program includes works by Nikos Skalkottas and Antonio Pasculli.
BACH, LISZT, MESSIEAN
Friday, 31 May 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
A pianistic perspective on Christian religion is the focus of Martin Helmchen’s solo recital. The program assembles works by four composers in whose lives the spiritual dimension was a central factor.
VIVALDI, HANDEL, RAMEAU
Saturday, 1 June 2019
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In many compositions of the Baroque era, birdsong plays an important role. Reason enough for recorder virtuoso Stefan Temmingh, soprano Dorothee Mields, and the Capricornus Consort Basel to dedicate an entire concert program to this subject.
BEETHOVEN, DUTILLEUX
Friday, 7 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles – veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation – come together for a very special concert marathon.
SCHULHOFF, KORNGOLD
Saturday, 8 June 2019
19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Zum Ende der Saison versammeln sich elf Ensembles – renommierte Quartette ebenso wie Künstler der jüngeren Generation – zu einem Konzertmarathon der besonderen Art.
BRITTEN, RAVEL, SCHOENBERG
Sunday, 9 June 2019
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles—veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation—come together for a very special concert marathon.
DEBUSSY, SAARIAHO, BARTÓK
Monday, 10 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles—veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation—come together for a very special concert marathon.
BORODIN, KANCHELI, SHOSTAKOVICH
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles—veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation—come together for a very special concert marathon.
WEBERN, FELDMAN, BIRTWISTLE
Wednesday, 12 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
HAYDN, JANÁČEK
Thursday, 13 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The Belcea Quartet returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal as ensemble in
residence during the 2018–19 season, performing a series of three
concerts that contrast Classical and Romantic repertoire with landmark
works of the 20th century.
STRAVINSKY, SHOSTAKOVICH, TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday, 14 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles—veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation—come together for a very special concert marathon.
OCTET: ENESCU, MEDELSSOHN
Saturday, 15 June 2019
15:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
SZYMANOWSKI, SAUNDERS, SCHUBERT
Saturday, 15 June 2019
20:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles—veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation—come together for a very special concert marathon.
SHOSTAKOVICH, BEETHOVEN
Sunday, 16 June 2019
16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
At the end of the season, 11 ensembles—veteran quartets as well as artists of the younger generation—come together for a very special concert marathon.
JÖRG WIDMANN
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Centered around the world premiere of a new piece by Jörg Widmann, performed by Daniel Barenboim and the Boulez Ensemble, the program will also include non-musical contributions about Europe. Full details will be announced in the fall of 2018.
SCHUBERT SONGS
Friday, 21 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Young South African soprano Golda Schultz performs songs on texts by Goethe, Schiller, and others, accompanied by Jonathan Ware.
JÖRG WIDMANN
Saturday, 22 June 2019
19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Continuing a new tradition, Daniel Barenboim and the Boulez Ensemble join forces once again to conclude the season. The program features the second performance of the new piece by Jörg Widmann.
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