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Obsessive, passionate, rapturous – Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique takes the drama of unrequited love to new extremes. In gaudy colours, he portrays contrasting scenes and emotions: infatuation, a swirling ball, painful doubts, then a murder and execution, and finally, a bizarre witches’ sabbath. Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto provides a sharp contrast, with its classical clarity and emotional depth. Under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev, the two solo voices are performed by our First Concertmaster, Noah Bendix-Balgley, and our First Principal Cello, Bruno Delepelaire.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
Bruno Delepelaire cello
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides Overture, op. 26
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, op. 102
Noah Bendix-Balgley violin, Bruno Delepelaire cello
Interval
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Additional information
Duration ca. 2 hours and 15 minutes (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Main Auditorium
39 to 111 €
Introduction
19:15
Series G: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
39 to 111 €
Introduction
19:15
Series F: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
39 to 111 €
Introduction
18:15
Series E: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Of Foreign Lands and Peoples
Felix Mendelssohn as traveller
Mendelssohn went on a three-year educational trip in his early twenties and brought back a great deal of inspiration for his later works.
Biography
Tugan Sokhiev
Born in North Ossetia, Tugan Sokhiev was one of the last students of the legendary teacher Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory. In 1999, he won the Third International Prokofiev Competition and went on to build a career that has taken him to major opera houses and concert halls worldwide..
From 2012 to 2016, Tugan Sokhiev led the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; from 2008 to 2022, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse; and from 2014 to 2022, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Since his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2010, he has been a regular guest, with a particular focus on Russian and French repertoire.
Bruno Delepelaire
Bruno Delepelaire was born in Paris and began playing the cello at the age of five; he studied at his hometown’s conservatoire with Philippe Muller. In 2012, he moved to Berlin to continue his training with Jens-Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste as well as with Ludwig Quandt at the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He also attended masterclasses, for example with François Salque, Wen-Sinn Yang, and Wolfgang Boettcher. Bruno Delepelaire gained orchestral experience with, among others, the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Since November 2013, he has been the Principal Cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He has won several prizes as a soloist and together with his string quartet, Quatuor Cavatine. As a chamber musician, he also performs with the Berlin Piano Quartet and with the 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker. As a soloist, he has appeared with numerous symphony orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker. When John Williams made his debut as a conductor with the orchestra in 2021, Bruno Delepelaire played the solo part in Williams’ Elegy for Cello and Orchestra. His instrument was made by the Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller and is on loan to him from the Karolina Blaberg Foundation.
Noah Bendix-Balgley
Noah Bendix-Balgley, originally from North Carolina, was concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2015 before joining the Berliner Philharmoniker in the same role. In addition to this position, Noah Bendix-Balgley appears as a soloist with leading orchestras around the world—including, of course, in concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
A passionate chamber musician, he performs in several permanent ensembles, for example in a trio with pianist Robert Levin and cellist Peter Wiley, as well as in the genre-crossing septet Philharmonix with members of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics. As an enthusiastic performer of traditional Klezmer music, Noah Bendix-Balgley has appeared with world-famous Klezmer ensembles such as Brave Old World, has taught workshops throughout Europe and the United States, and composed the Klezmer Violin Concerto Fidl-Fantazye, which was performed at the Philharmonie Berlin in April 2023.
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