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Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Hall (DOUBLE), Berlin, Germany
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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
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 4 in B flat major, Op.60
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra
Overview

The start of the fourth season with Robin Ticciati: The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin presents a programme in which the Béla Bartók’s “Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra” meets Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony – both works were already very successful works during the composers’ lifetime.

Since 2017, Robin Ticciati has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. For the opening of their fourth season together, he will work with the orchestra on a Beethoven symphony for the first time. He chose the Fourth, which takes its specific “human tone” and its urge for freedom from the opera “Fidelio”, especially the dungeon scenes.

Bartók’s Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra was originally composed as a chamber music sonata, before the composer created the version featuring an orchestra. In the Basler Zeitung newspaper, Bartók explained his ideas: “I had intended to write a piece for piano and percussion for years. Over time, I became more and more convinced that a piano confronted with percussive instruments would not generate a satisfactory balance. Accordingly, the plan was changed in as much as there are now two pianos opposed to the percussion … The two percussive voices now take an equal position in relation to the two piano voices. The role of the percussion is diverse: In many instances, it merely adds a colour nuance to the sound of the piano, in others, it enhances important accents; at times, the percussion provides contrapuntal motifs against the piano voice and frequently it is particularly the timpani and the xylophone that play themes in the main voice”.

On the occasion of the 1943 world premiere in the USA, Béla Bartók and his second wife were the glamorous centre of attention.

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
Duration:
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