Berliner Philharmonie tickets 7 September 2025 - Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Daniel Harding, Magdalena Kožená and London Voices | GoComGo.com

Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Daniel Harding, Magdalena Kožená and London Voices

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Auditorium, Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 19:00

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.

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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
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Mezzo-Soprano: Magdalena Kožená
Choir: London Voices
Orchestra: Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma
Creators
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Luciano Berio
Programme
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia for 8 Voices and Orchestra
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Overview

The Music Director of the roman orchestra Daniel Harding will captain a fully-crewed ship of sounds and head out to sea at the Musikfest Berlin. The musicians of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia plunge into contemplative and ecstatic waters in Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” before they join their shipmates, the singers of London Voices, and embark with Luciano Berio’s “Sinfonia” on a voyage “across the Mediterranean of Western music” in the words of its composer. The mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená also reveals Berio’s musical discoveries in his “Folk Songs”.

Luciano Berio, born by the sea in Italy in 1925, dreamed as a boy of being a sea-captain. This dream was to come true in a different way: composing music, concludes Berio, is a lifelong journey in which he has headed for one port after another. And his “Sinfonia” – composed in the troubled year of 1968, marked by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and the May uprising in Paris, that he spent as professor of composition in Oakland with first-hand experience of the Flower Power-movement – can be understood as a documentation of “found material”. Berio uses it as a platform on which to mount a variety of literary and musical quotations, weaving round them a glittering web of vocal and instrumental sounds.

Like the rippling water of a river that forges its way through varying landscapes, disappearing at times into a subterranean channel and reaching the light of day somewhere completely different, the music of Gustav Mahler keeps constant company with the ‘Sinfonia’. Luciano Berio saw the third movement as an act of homage to Mahler, whose “Second Symphony seems to bear within it the whole course of music history”. Berio set quotations from Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck”, Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” and from many other interrelated works and transformed them into something like Baudelaire’s “Voyage à Cythère”, a musical “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art) that he dedicated to Leonard Bernstein.

Berio’s spirit of discovery comes out again in the song cycle he wrote four years earlier, his “Folk Songs”: taking songs from America, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Berio sets them in a new context. “I keep coming back to folk music and trying to create links between it and my own ideas and conceptions of music. My approach to the folk songs is often highly emotional: when I work with the music, I always feel the joy of discovery.”

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: 19:00
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