Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin I Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin I

Musikfest Berlin

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Info

Benjamin Britten’s Sea Interludes from his hit opera Peter Grimes conclude with a violent storm. Here the tragic hero’s vision of happiness and inner peace is swept away by a final outburst from the orchestra. At the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin’s concert conducted by Simone Young, they are followed by the Adagio from Gustav Mahler’s unfinished 10th Symphony: a “tornado of life” (Jens Malte Fischer) that was written in one of the deepest crises that the composer suffered in the last summer of his life. Oscillating layers dominate the soundscape of Sappho/ Bioluminescence by the Australian composer Liza Lim, before the evening ends with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5.

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Artists

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Simone Young conductor
Francesco Piemontesi piano

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Programme

Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes, op. 33a: Four Sea Interludes

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 10: 1st Movement Adagio

Liza Lim
Annunciation Triptych: 1. Sappho/Bioluminescence

Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E flat major, op. 73

Francesco Piemontesi piano

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Additional information

The concert will open with a speech by Michel Friedman.
_{In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele/Musikfest Berlin}