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Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Antoine Tamestit

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Auditorium, Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00

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
Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Creators
Composer: Luciano Berio
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Programme
Luciano Berio: Voci (Folk Songs II) for viola and two instrumental groups
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: Jūra (The Sea), Symphonic Poem
Maurice Ravel: Boléro
Overview

The concert given by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the Musikfest Berlin brings together three major issues which have preoccupied human beings since time immemorial: travelling, the force of nature and the fascination for technical progress.

In Luciano Berio’s “Voci” for viola and two instrumental groups, the composer pursued his great passion for folk music from across the world – this work is a declaration of love for Sicilian culture. The Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla attaches great importance to familiarising audiences with the Late Romantic music of one of the major composers from her native country: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis has created a vivid extravaganza on the many facets of the sea in his composition “Jūra”. And the probably best-known composition by Maurice Ravel whose 150th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated this year is “Boléro”. Throughout his life, Ravel was fascinated by industrial progress, and the precise constant rhythm of his piece is reminiscent of the fine mechanics of an elaborate clock.

Luciano Berio would have been celebrating his 100th birthday in 2025. The composer lovingly reworked the folk music of his native country and many other cultures across the world, creating multilayered and meticulously detailed new compositions. For “Voci”, composed in 1984, he transcribed Sicilian songs for the solo viola. Love songs and lullabies, songs about work and other folk melodies sometimes appear fragmented and at other times in complete form above a delicate and tender accompaniment by the two instrumental groups. The folk melodies are vividly interspersed with musical images of the Sicilian countryside, birds and the local population.

The Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was also inspired by folk music, but to an even greater degree by nature. In his symphonic poem “Jūra”, the elemental forces of the sea are unleashed by the orchestra. The vivid musical transformation of the composer’s impressions was without doubt influenced by his second artistic activity – Čiurlionis was also a trained artist. His musical and visual channels of expression fused to form unique synergies – during the composition of “Jūra”, he was simultaneously working on the cycle of paintings entitled “Funeral Symphony” with its vibrant blue and yellow tones.

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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