Vilde Frang mit Geige
Vilde Frang | Picture: Marco Borggreve
Kirill Petrenko stands at the conductor’s desk and conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko | Picture: Stephan Rabold

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    At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto with Vilde Frang as the soloist. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.


    Artists

    Berliner Philharmoniker
    Kirill Petrenko conductor
    Vilde Frang violin


    Programme

    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Isle of the Dead, Symphonic Poem, op. 29

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 35

    Vilde Frang violin

    Interval

    Antonín Dvořák
    Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70


    Additional information

    Celebratory concerts 75 years of the Friends of the Berliner Philharmoniker e.V.



    Main Auditorium

    37 to 106 €

    Introduction
    19:15

    Series L: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker


    Main Auditorium

    37 to 106 €

    Introduction
    19:15

    Series K: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker


    Main Auditorium

    37 to 106 €

    Introduction
    19:15

    Series B: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker

    Das Album im Detail. Man erkennt die drei CDs des Albums im aufgeklappten Album.

    »Upbeat«: Sergei Rachmaninoffs »Isle of the Dead«
    Programme notes and exclusive rehearsal footage

    “Upbeat”: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Isle of the Dead”

    In this video: Kirill Petrenko rehearses Sergei Rachmaninoff’s tone poem Isle of the Dead. Violist Julia Gartemann gives us some personal insights into this enigmatic work.


    The high-flyer
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the Berliner Philharmoniker 

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold in 1912; that was the year in which the Berliner Philharmoniker performed a work by the composer for the first time. | Picture: Bain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    When the Berliner Philharmoniker performed a work by Erich Wolfgang Korngold for the first time, the Jewish composer was still a teenager. He enjoyed a triumphant career in Europe, especially as an opera composer. This came to an abrupt end when the Nazi regime came to power. But Korngold’s career was not over ...


    Biographies

    Kirill Petrenko

    Kirill Petrenko has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Berliner Philharmoniker since the 2019/20 season. Born in Omsk in Siberia, he received his training first in his home town and later in Austria. He established his conducting career in opera with positions at the Meininger Theater and the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2013 to 2020, Kirill Petrenko was general music director of Bayerische Staatsoper. He has also made guest appearances at the world’s leading opera houses, including Wiener Staatsoper, Covent Garden in London, the Opéra national in Paris, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bayreuth Festival. Moreover, he has conducted the major international symphony orchestras – in Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Rome, Chicago, Cleveland and Israel. 

    Since his debut in 2006, a variety of programmatic themes have emerged in his work together with the Berliner Philharmoniker. These include work on the orchestra’s core Classical-Romantic repertoire, for example with symphonies by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Unjustly forgotten composers such as Josef Suk and Erich Wolfgang Korngold are another of Kirill Petrenko’s interests. Russian works are also highlighted, with performances of Tchaikovsky’s operas Mazeppa, Iolanta and The Queen of Spades attracting particular attention recently.


    Vilde Frang

    Vilde Frang, wrote BR Klassik, is “technically polished, her intonation is utterly pure, and her upper register is secure.” In the British classical music magazine The Strad, she was hailed as the “most original” of the younger generation of violinists, and praised for her “musicality and extraordinary lyricism”.  Born in Norway, Vilde Frang began her solo career at the age of twelve. At that time she was invited by Mariss Jansons to make her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under his direction. In 2012, she was honoured with the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, subsequently performing with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink, at the Lucerne Festival. 

    Her highly-acclaimed debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2016 at the European Concert in Røros, Norway, was another important stage in Vilde Frang’s career; the following year she made her debut with the orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie. Vilde Frang studied at the Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in her native Oslo as well as with Kolja Blacher at the Hamburg University of Music and with Ana Chumachenco at Kronberg Academy. She received a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. A winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, with a distinctive tone that has been described as both noble and velvety, she performs with the world’s leading orchestras and festivals, and has been an artistic board member of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival since 2020.