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Les Siècles, Ustina Dubitsky and Isabelle Faust

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Auditorium, Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 18:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Violin: Isabelle Faust
Conductor: Ustina Dubitsky
Orchestra: Les Siècles
Creators
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 61
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14
Overview

A bridge spanning almost exactly 150 years: the Viennese Classical age, Romantic music in all its symphonic fullness and a voyage into the tonal worlds of the Modern era.

The programme is specially tailored for Les Siècles, who can be heard in two concerts on one evening. In the first concert at 18:00, the musicians of the authentic-sound ensemble present Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique”, one of their internationally acclaimed showpieces, and embark on an almost symphonic journey with soloist Isabelle Faust in Beethoven’s only violin concerto. The musicians adopt the instrumentation appropriate to the time in which each work was composed, captivating the attention with a fresh, often unusual view of old and new. In the late-night concert at 21:00, the musicians of Les Siècles expand their repertoire spectrum to include the music of French Modernism.

Visions and dreams are the stuff from which Hector Berlioz made one of the most popular key works of French orchestral music. His “Symphonie fantastique” tells of the magic of love, the pain of longing, intoxication of every kind and nightmarish abysses of the human soul. At the same time, the composition is a veiled portrayal of its craftsman’s own soul: Berlioz wrote his “fantastic symphony” under the heavy burden of unrequited love, charting new territory in both sound and form and flinging open the gates to the symphonic music of the future.

Hector Berlioz was fascinated by the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, which he celebrated as a conductor and music critic in France above all. Beethoven’s only violin concerto, premiered in Vienna in 1806, set new parameters for the hitherto prevailing tradition of a bravura solo concerto. Its three movements are charged with a never-failing flow of energy from the strangely electrifying commencement through the expansive central movement to the brilliant finale. Beethoven wrote the work for violin virtuoso Franz Joseph Clement, one of the brightest stars of his day. The no less celebrated violinist Isabelle Faust now follows in his footsteps.

Venue Info

Berliner Philharmonie - Berlin
Location   Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The building forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions close to Potsdamer Platz.

The Philharmonie consists of two venues, the Grand Hall (Großer Saal) with 2,440 seats and the Chamber Music Hall (Kammermusiksaal) with 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller hall was opened in the 1980s, some twenty years after the main building.

Hans Scharoun designed the building, which was constructed over the years 1960–1963. It opened on 15 October 1963 with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It was built to replace the old Philharmonie, destroyed by British bombers on 30 January 1944, the eleventh anniversary of Hitler becoming Chancellor. The hall is a singular building, asymmetrical and tentlike, with the main concert hall in the shape of a pentagon. The height of the rows of seats increases irregularly with distance from the stage. The stage is at the centre of the hall, surrounded by seating on all sides. The so-called vineyard-style seating arrangement (with terraces rising around a central orchestral platform) was pioneered by this building, and became a model for other concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House (1973), Denver's Boettcher Concert Hall (1978), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (1981), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), and the Philharmonie de Paris (2014).

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded three live performances at the hall; Dave Brubeck in Berlin (1964), Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970), and We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973). Miles Davis's 1969 live performance at the hall has also been released on DVD.

On 20 May 2008 a fire broke out at the hall. A quarter of the roof suffered considerable damage as firefighters cut openings to reach the flames beneath the roof. The hall interior sustained water damage but was otherwise "generally unharmed". Firefighters limited damage using foam. The cause of the fire was attributed to welding work, and no serious damage was caused either to the structure or interior of the building. Performances resumed, as scheduled, on 1 June 2008 with a concert by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The main organ was built by Karl Schuke, Berlin, in 1965, and renovated in 1992, 2012 and 2016. It has four manuals and 91 stops. The pipes of the choir organs and the Tuba 16' and Tuba 8' stops are not assigned to any group and can be played from all four manuals and the pedals.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 18:00
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