Season 2018/19
BEETHOVEN SONATAS II
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Friday, 14 December 2018
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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
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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.
FRANUI - MUSICBANDA & NIKOLAUS HABJAN
DOCH BIN ICH NIRGEND, ACH! ZU HAUS
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Wednesday, 19 December 2018
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Thursday, 20 December 2018
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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.
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KINAN AZMEH CITYBAND
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Saturday, 22 December 2018
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Sunday, 23 December 2018
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Kinan Azmeh now returns, headlining this New York–based quartet, which has won acclaim for its exciting blend of classical music, jazz, and the music of Syria.
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MADRIGALS
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Saturday, 5 January 2019
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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
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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.
BARENBOIM, BARENBOIM & SOLTANI
MOZART
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Saturday, 19 January 2019
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Tuesday, 29 January 2019
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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.
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MATTHIAS PINTSCHER
Sunday, 20 January 2019
16:00
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Komponist Matthias Pintscher steht am Dirigentenpult für die Uraufführung des neues Werks, das er für Daniel Barenboim und das Boulez Ensemble geschrieben hat.
THOMAS HAMPSON & WOLFRAM RIEGER
SCHUBERT WEEK
Monday, 21 January 2019
19:30
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Thomas Hampson is not only one of today’s most accomplished lied
interpreters—he has also been an acclaimed lied teacher and scholar for
many years. Following last season’s Schubert Weekend, the American
baritone now returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal to curate an entire
Schubert Week.
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
18:00
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Thomas Hampson is not only one of today’s most accomplished lied interpreters—he has also been an acclaimed lied teacher and scholar for many years. Following last season’s Schubert Weekend, the American baritone now returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal to curate an entire Schubert Week.
SCHUBERT WEEK
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
18:00
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Thursday, 24 January 2019
18:00
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Friday, 25 January 2019
15:00
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Friday, 25 January 2019
19:30
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Saturday, 26 January 2019
10:30
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Saturday, 26 January 2019
16:00
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Saturday, 26 January 2019
20:00
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SCHUBERT WEEK
Sunday, 27 January 2019
11:00
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ABRAHAMSEN, HAYDN, FOLK SONGS
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
19:30
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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
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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
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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
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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.
ALEXANDER MELNIKOV
MANY PIANOS
Friday, 8 February 2019
19:30
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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.
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BEETHOVEN SONATAS III
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Sunday, 10 February 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Luca Pisaroni and Malcolm Martineau present some of Schubert’s most celebrated Goethe settings, including Ganymed and Erlkönig.
FRANK GEHRY
CELEBRATING HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY
Thursday, 28 February 2019
19:30
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With a program of musical surprises, Daniel Barenboim and other prominent artists celebrate the architect of the Pierre Boulez Saal on his 90th birthday.
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SCHUMANN, BARTÓK, SCHUBERT
Monday, 4 March 2019
19:30
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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
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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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Friday, 8 March 2019
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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
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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
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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.
ANOUAR BRAHEM: BLUE MAQAMS
DAVE HOLLAND, DJANGO BATES & NASHEET WAITS
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
19:30
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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.
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LECTURE: MICHAEL WOOD
Thursday, 14 March 2019
18:00
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Michael Wood opens the lecture program of the Edward W. Said Days.
CONCERT: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS
Thursday, 14 March 2019
20:00
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The famed Tallis Scholars explore the theme of counterpoint in a series of Magnificat and Miserere settings and further works by William Byrd, Josquin Desprez, among others. The evening comes to a close with Tallis’s monumental 40-part motet Spem in alium.
LECTURE: SA’ED ATSHAN
Friday, 15 March 2019
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In his talk Counterpoint, Dissent, Exile, and the Palestinian Intellectual, Sa’ed Atshan will explore conceptions of the Palestinian intellectual as they relate to counterpoint, dissent vis-à-vis political regimes, and exile, while drawing upon the legacy of Said, the work of Hanan Ashrawi in Palestine, and his personal experience as a Palestinian academic in the United States.
CONCERT: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS & CHRISTOPH GRUND
Friday, 15 March 2019
20:00
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The concert, featuring the Tallis Scholars and pianist Christoph Grund, explores related ideas of counterpoint by juxtaposing Antoine Brumel’s late–15th century Missa “Et ecce terrae motus” with Israeli composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi’s Polígonos for piano and electronics, first heard in 2017.
LECTURE: ADANIA SHIBLI
Saturday, 16 March 2019
18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Moving to other languages and between them opens up a landscape in which intimacy and multiplicities overshadow oppositions, and where the audible does not negate the silent. Adania Shibli’s talk Counterpoints in the Audible wanders around such landscapes, occasionally stopping to inspect audible encounters, silent acts of reading and writing literature, and their intersections.
CONCERT: MOZART, BACH, BARTÓK, VERDI
Saturday, 16 March 2019
20:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Adania Shibli’s thoughts, expressed in her talk Counterpoints in the Audible, are reflected in the varied landscape of musical counterpoint of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries—as encountered in iconic works of Bach, Verdi, and Bartók, as well as Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, a high point of Classical form and balance, all performed by students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie.
JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS
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.
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CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
19:30
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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
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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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Tuesday, 26 March 2019
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Saturday, 30 March 2019
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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
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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.
CONCERT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
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Sunday, 31 March 2019
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Monday, 1 April 2019
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Before fairy tales were written down and printed in books to be read out loud, they were told orally. The composer Robert Schumann did the same with music: in his Märchenerzählungen (“Fairy Tales”) for clarinet, viola, and piano, he gives a narrator’s voice to the instruments—and to the musicians who play them—by letting them describe characters and events without the use of any words. But his music is not a reminiscence of well-known stories: it addresses our imagination and allows us to make up our own new fairy tales. In this concert, Schumann’s Romantic pieces are paired with Hommage à R. Sch. by the contemporary composer György Kurtág, inviting children and adults to go on a fanciful journey into both the past and the future.
BOROWSKI, STAUD, BRAHMS
Thursday, 4 April 2019
19:30
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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.
WOLF, BERG, 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
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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
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The English viol consort Phantasm and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny explore the world of John Dowland, the most prominent composer of the Elizabethan era.
DANIEL BARENBOIM
BEETHOVEN SONATAS IV
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Saturday, 4 May 2019
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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.
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BERIO, BACH/BUSONI, LISZT
Thursday, 9 May 2019
19:30
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Giuseppe Guarrera performs works from three centuries that not only have a connection to his home country Italy, but also trace fascinating historical relationships.
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS & OHLSSON
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.
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BRAHMS, MUSSORGSKY, BARTÓK
Monday, 13 May 2019
19:30
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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
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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
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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.
LERA AUERBACH
Friday, 24 May 2019
20:00
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Led by Latvian conductor Kaspars Putninš, RIAS Kammerchor performs the world premiere of Lera Auerbach’s latest composition.
SONGS FOR DAYS TO COME
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
19:30
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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
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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
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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
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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.
EUROPE: MYTH AND VISION
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.
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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.
DANIEL BARENBOIM & MICHAEL BARENBOIM
Saturday, 17 August 2019
19:00
Waldbühne
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra returns to Berlin’s Waldbühne on August 17, 2019, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. But the 2019 Waldbühne Concert also marks another anniversary—serving as a prelude to the Beethoven Year 2020, in which the music world will celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday. The program, performed in a breathtaking outdoor setting, is entirely dedicated to the music of Beethoven: with the composer’s Violin Concerto, featuring Michael Barenboim as the soloist, and his Seventh Symphony.
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