Discover backstage moments and concert highlights from our current festival tour to Salzburg, Lucerne, Paris, and Luxembourg.
Grande Finale: The Berliner Philharmoniker’s successful late summer tour closed with an opening; at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the orchestra celebrated the start of the new concert season with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony.
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s tour continued to the French capital on Friday with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. In the Philharmonie de Paris’ sold-out Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, the orchestra performed for a raptly attentive audience. Merci à toutes et à tous pour votre merveilleux accueil!
On their second day at the Lucerne Festival, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko performed Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in concert hall of the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, to a rapturous audience response. Lucerne, thank you so much! Next stop on the tour: the Philharmonie de Paris.
Following a sold-out Salzburg Festival concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s next tour stop was the Lucerne Festival. In the legendary acoustic of the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, the orchestra performed its season-opening program for an enthusiastic audience: Schumann’s “Manfred” Overture, Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra – with principal oboist Albrecht Mayer as soloist – and Brahms’ First Symphony.
With Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko opened their festival tour in Salzburg. Mahler’s final completed work – a deeply personal farewell and at the same time a visionary glimpse of modernity – received enthusiastic acclaim from the Salzburg audience. Many thanks for this wonderful start! We already look forward to seeing you again at the Easter Festival in March 2026.