Series Q Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
In March 2027, the 200th anniversary of the death of Ludwig van Beethoven will be marked. On this occasion, the chamber music ensembles of the Berliner Philharmoniker have put together programs that make the composer’s influence on his successors tangible. Naturally, the genre central to Beethoven — the string quartet — cannot be absent. In the first concert of the series, the notorious Große Fuge is paired with Mendelssohn’s Second String Quartet. While many contemporaries considered Beethoven’s late works completely incomprehensible, Mendelssohn was already inspired by them as a teenager.
The Philharmonic String Quartet juxtaposes one of the most beautiful works from Beethoven’s middle period with compositions by Schubert and Brahms. For both composers, the perfection of their admired model was also a burden. Brahms is said to have destroyed more than 20 of his own string quartets before publishing his Opus 51. Béla Bartók admired Beethoven as an inventor of new musical forms. His Trio Kontraste, dedicated to jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, will be performed in May before Beethoven’s famous Septet for strings and winds. A discovery, on the other hand, is the Octet, written during Beethoven’s youth in Bonn. In this work, woodwinds and brass remain among themselves, just as in the subsequent pieces by Gustav Schreck and George Enescu. In December, the Philharmonic brass players usher in the Christmas season with festive music. A special accent in the series is provided by the ensemble Bolero Berlin, which has won a loyal fan base with jazz sounds and Latin American rhythms.
The series is complemented by two additional concerts available to subscribers at a special price. In both cases, legendary soloists are guests who have been associated with the Berliner Philharmoniker for decades. The violinist Pinchas Zukerman performs with members of the orchestra, and the 12 Cellists welcome Yo‑Yo Ma as a special guest in their midst. Subscribers to Series Q receive a 15% discount on the single‑ticket price.
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Concerts
Chamber Music Hall
Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
Hande Küden violin
Diyang Mei viola
Knut Weber cello
Works by
Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Serenade for String Trio in D major, op. 8
Ludwig van Beethoven
Duo for Viola and Cello “Duet with two Obbligato Eyeglasses” in E flat major, WoO 32
Ludwig van Beethoven
Große Fuge for String Quartet in B flat major, op. 133
Interval
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in A minor, op. 13
Chamber Music Hall
Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
Berliner Barock Solisten
Daishin Kashimoto violin
Works by
Giuseppe Tartini, Georg Philipp Telemann, Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi
Giuseppe Tartini
Concerto grosso No. 2 in G minor (after the violin sonata, op. 1 No. 10)
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 4 Violins, Strings and Thoroughbass in A major, TWV 54:A1
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto grosso op. 3 Nr. 2 g-Moll
Interval
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, op. 8 No. 1–4
Chamber Music Hall
Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Egor Egorkin flute
Jonathan Kelly oboe
Dominik Wollenweber oboe
Alexander Bader clarinet
Matic Kuder clarinet
Stefan Schweigert bassoon
Václav Vonášek bassoon
Paula Ernesaks french horn
Andrej Žust french horn
Works by
Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Schreck and George Enescu
Ludwig van Beethoven
Octet in E flat major, op. 103
Gustav Schreck
Nonet, op. 40
Interval
George Enescu
Decet for Winds, op. 14
Chamber Music Hall
Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
Philharmonisches Streichquartett:
Dorian Xhoxhi violin
Helena Madoka Berg violin
Christoph Heesch cello
Takehiro Konoe viola
Works by
Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F major, op. 59 No. 1 “Razumovsky”
Interval
Franz Schubert
String Quartet Movement in C minor, D 103 (Fragment)
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op. 51 No. 1
Chamber Music Hall
Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
Bolero Berlin:
Martin Stegner viola
Esko Laine double bass
Manfred Preis clarinet and saxophone
Paulo Morello guitar
Raphael Haeger piano
Rolo Rodriguez percussion
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Works by Antônio Carlos Jobim, Django Reinhardt, Paulo Morello, Kurt Weill, Maurice Ravel and other composers
Chamber Music Hall
Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles
Harry Ward violin
Julia Gartemann viola
Solène Kermarrec cello
Piotr Zimnik double bass
Andraž Golob clarinet
Václav Vonášek bassoon
Johannes Lamotke french horn
Noora Ylönen piano
Works by
Ludwig van Beethoven and Béla Bartók
Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in B flat major, op. 11 “Gassenhauer”
Béla Bartók
Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano, Sz 111
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven
Septet in E flat major, op. 20
Additional concert
Preise & Saalplan
| Price category | Block/row | Price |
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| 1 |
A
D
E
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162 € |
| 2 |
B
C
F
Wheelchair positions 1 |
96 € |