Festival Tour 2021: Salzburg, Lucerne, Paris

Even in 2021, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko will set off on a festival tour immediately after the opening of the season in Berlin: it traditionally takes them to the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival. The tour concludes with a guest performance at the Philharmonie de Paris. The two tour programmes subtly contrasts music of the Romantic and Modernist periods. The first programme juxtaposes Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon overture and Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis; the programme also includes Franz Schubert’s “Great” C major Symphony, considered the epitome of a Romantic symphony. The second programme features Slavic composers, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet, Sergei Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto and Josef Suk’s tone poem Pohádka léta (A Summer’s Tale). The soloist in the piano concerto is Anna Vinnitskaya, who is accompanying the Berliner Philharmoniker on tour for the first time.
(Photo: Stefan Rabold)

06 Sep 2021

Au revoir Paris!

A poignant finale for our tour

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05 Sep 2021

The thing with the perfect sound

Marie-Pierre Langlamet in search of a new harp

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(Photo: Stephan Rabold)

05 Sep 2021

Rehearsal impressions

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05 Sep 2021

Mixed feelings

Richard Duven plays his last concert in Paris

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(Photo: Stephan Rabold)

04 Sep 2021

An evening off in Paris

Time for sunsets, sensational views and the usual suspects.

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(Photo: Peter Fischli | Lucerne Festival)

03 Sep 2021

Bye bye Lucerne

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03 Sep 2021

39 exciting years

On the road in Lucerne with violinist Madeleine Carruzzo.

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(Photo: Stephan Rabold)

02 Sep 2021

Backstage

Utmost focus in the last minutes before the concert.

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(Photo: Priska Ketterer | Lucerne Festival)

02 Sep 2021

First concert evening at the KKL

Impressions from the sold-out hall at the Lucerne Festival

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01 Sep 2021

Behind the music

A conversation with soloist Anna Vinnitskaya

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(Photo: Sarah Willis)

31 Aug 2021

Meanwhile in Lucerne ...

The 12 Cellists are already warming up the stage.

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31 Aug 2021

Music outreach “to go”!

Our education projects on tour

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(Photo: Stephan Rabold)

31 Aug 2021

Double debut in Salzburg

Anna Vinnitskaya performs for the first time at the Festival and on tour with us.

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(Photo: Stephan Rabold)

30 Aug 2021

A Salzburg stroll

Guess we don’t need to say much about that ...

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30 Aug 2021

Brilliant start

The first concert evening at the Salzburg Festival

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30 Aug 2021

Coming home

As a true Salzburger, violinist Eva-Maria Tomasi has a very special relationship with her hometown and the Festival.

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27 Aug 2021

Here we go!

The suitcases are packed, the instruments safely stowed - off we go on our festival tour to Salzburg, Lucerne and Paris!

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