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Staatskapelle Berlin

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Hall (DOUBLE), Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00

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Festival

Musikfest Berlin 2020

33 performances, nine world premieres

Musikfest Berlin 2020 will approach the beginning of the concert season with caution. Its new programme will follow the rules that protective measures from the COVID-19 pandemic have placed on public concerts. Many of the projects that have been prepared across Germany to mark this Beethoven year have fallen victim to the coronavirus crisis and have been postponed until next year.

Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K543
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551
Overview

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin will play the last three Mozart symphonies at the Musikfest Berlin. Mozart once again impressively summarizes his mastery of composition and his imagination which anticipates Beethoven’s thinking and work.

The three (and last) symphonies composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the summer of 1788 form the great portal to Beethoven’s thinking and work in the field of instrumental music. They contain preforms of essential elements that the younger composer adopted and elaborated. The dramaturgical direction and joint motivic primal cells relate both the various movements of each work and the entire pieces of the triad to each other. The first of the three symphonies is the only one to begin with a slow introduction; the finale of the last one, the “Jupiter” Symphony, surpasses all others in grandeur and therefore is not only a convincing conclusion of one work but also of a longer journey – its basic motif having left its mark in the first two symphonies already. The effect is overwhelming when, out of the “cloud of dust” (Harnoncourt) in which the E-flat major symphony suddenly disappears, the G minor symphony takes on its delicate shape. The trilogy is more than the sum of its symphonies.

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin know all sides of Mozart’s art, chamber music, serenades, solo concerts, symphonies, great vocal works and even operas. Mozart’s last three symphonies draw from this experience and some of the topoi from all these areas. They underline the genre’s claim to universality, which was already beyond question for Beethoven.

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: 20:00
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