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Tour of summer festivals with Britten and Shostakovich

In the late summer of 2015, for their traditional guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival and at Lucerne, Bucharest and Grafenegg, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle performed Shostakovich’s devastating Fourth Symphony.

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)

08 Sep 2015

Our last concert of this tour in Grafenegg. We had a great time on tour, thanks to our wonderful hosts!

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Jonathan Kelly, Andreas Wittmann, Sarah Willis, Fergus McWilliam, Martin Heinze, Markus Weidmann, Mor Biron, Walter Seyfarth, Alexander Bader

08 Sep 2015

At the Prelude of our second concert day in Grafenegg the Philharmonic Wind Octet (plus double bass) played at the…

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07 Sep 2015

Weather impressions from Grafenegg

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07 Sep 2015

Gone with the wind… Unfortunately we had to move inside again for our second concert. So we could just greet the…

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07 Sep 2015

The second day in Grafenegg started with a concert by the Scharoun-Ensemble at the Auditorium.

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06 Sep 2015

Our first concert in Grafenegg

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The bassoon section: Mor Biron, Markus Weidmann, Stefan Schweigert, HyunSung Jang

06 Sep 2015

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Rudolf Buchbinder greets the orchestra before the rehearsal

06 Sep 2015

Probenimpressionen von Monika Rittershaus

Rehearsal impressions by Monika Rittershaus

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from left to right: Rachel Schmidt, Raimar Orlowsky, Matthew Hunter, Julia Gartemann, Christoph Igelbrink

06 Sep 2015

Prelude with the Brahms-Ensemble at the Riding school in Grafenegg

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06 Sep 2015

Animal details from the Stift and Stein/Danube

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06 Sep 2015

Tour to the beautiful Stift Göttweig

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(Photo: Markus Weidmann)

06 Sep 2015

Rain - our first concert in Grafenegg had to be moved indoors.

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06 Sep 2015

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05 Sep 2015

The Festival tour should rather be named Birthday tour… Happy Birthday, Mor!

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05 Sep 2015

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05 Sep 2015

Stavropoleos church and cloister

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05 Sep 2015

Bucharest - a fascinating city full of contrasts.

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Mihai Constantinescu and Martin Hoffmann

05 Sep 2015

Huge thanks to Mihai Constantinescu, who organized everthing so wonderful! And of course Thank you Deutsche Bank!

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(Photo: Manu Theobald)

05 Sep 2015

We were very touched by the great response from the audience!

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Raphael Haeger

05 Sep 2015

Concert impressions from Bucharest

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus and Markus Weidmann)

05 Sep 2015

Backstage before the concert

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Laurentiu Dinca, Noah Bendix-Balgley and Sir Simon

05 Sep 2015

Anspielprobe in Bukarest

Rehearsal in Bucharest

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(Photo: Stephan Rabold)

05 Sep 2015

Before the concert in Bucharest, the Enescu Festival holds a press conference with Sir Simon Rattle, our General Manager…

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus and Markus Weidmann)

04 Sep 2015

Yesterday’s flight to Bucharest was basically a big birthday party for Christoph Igelbrink and Stefan Dohr. Stefan had…

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(Photo: Priska Ketterer)

03 Sep 2015

We took the Festival’s motto “Humour” very serious: In Sir Simon’s Haydn Pasticcio were some surprising moments…

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Amihai Grosz preparing for the performance

03 Sep 2015

Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante with our 1st concertmaster Daishin Kashimoto and 1st solo violist Amihai Grosz.

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Some more Lucerne impressions by Markus Weidmann

03 Sep 2015

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After a sparrow breakfast our
(Photo: photographing bassoonist Markus Weidmann took a stroll onto the Pilatus on his free day.)

03 Sep 2015

After a sparrow breakfast our photographing bassoonist Markus Weidmann took a stroll onto the Pilatus on his free day.

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Pictures by Peter Fischli from our first concert in Lucerne.

02 Sep 2015

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(Photo: Markus Weidmann)

02 Sep 2015

Lake Lucerne in the rain.

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02 Sep 2015

The man with the clear view: Head of Production Robert Buchwald.

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Peter Brem

02 Sep 2015

Some of the members celebrating an anniversary in chronological order: Peter Brem, 45 years member of the 1st violin…

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(Photo: Marco Borggreve)

02 Sep 2015

Happy Birthday Neithard Resa!

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(Photo: Aleksi Hornborg)

02 Sep 2015

Lucerne Festival General Manager Michael Haefliger greets the orchestra on stage before the first rehearsal, followed by…

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(Photo: ACT/Jörg Steinmetz)

01 Sep 2015

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01 Sep 2015

The beautiful KKL in Lucerne and our trucks waiting to be unloaded.

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01 Sep 2015

A very warm summer in Europe - no snow on the Zugspitze, that we passed on our flight to Zurich.

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01 Sep 2015

Off to Lucerne with “our” Lufthansa Crew!

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Stefan Schweigert, solo bassoon, gets a very well deserved extra applause after Shostakovich 4th.

31 Aug 2015

Final applause in Salzburg.

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31 Aug 2015

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