Berliner Philharmoniker Stories
Discover all the background stories, interviews, portraits, essays and backstage stories about the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Who was Elijah?
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“Composing is a slow burn”
A conversation with Esa-Pekka Salonen
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If I were not a musician ...
The violinist could possibly have pursued a career as a professional athlete.
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The German California
An intellectual elite fled from the Nazis into American exile, including Arnold Schönberg, Thomas Mann and many others.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Ballet
Tchaikovsky is rightly considered the maestro of ballet music. He defended it against contemporaries who classified it as mere incidental music. A love story.
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In memory of Hans Scharoun
A declaration of love to his most famous building: the Philharmonie Berlin.
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Korngold and the Berliner Philharmoniker
What a start! Erich Wolfgang Korngold was just 15 years young when the Berliner Philharmoniker performed his Schauspiel Overture op. 4 in December 1912.
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Christoph Hartmann: If I were not a musician ...
In this section, we introduce members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and their extramusical passions. Today: Christoph Hartmann, who designs bicycles.
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Modern Mozart
Double portrait of Sabine Devieilhe and Maxim Emelyanychev
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A classical “one-hit wonder”?
The French composer Paul Dukas
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Richard Strauss’ “Also sprach Zarathustra”
Five questions about the famous work
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“My angel, my all, my own self”
Who was Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”?
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If I were not a musician ...
Cellist Nikolaus Römisch has another team.
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People around Mahler
“Those who loved him became a part of his being.”
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“The rushing gale of our great epoch”
Mahler and the road to symphonic grandeur
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Of burnt kettles and intoxicating bass concerts
Solo bassist Matthew McDonald in conversation
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Yearningly successful
Antonín Dvořák in America
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Fifty Years of the Karajan Academy
A success story: the Karajan Academy has been training young orchestral talent since 1972
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Richard Strauss and the Berliner Philharmoniker
On the 70th anniversary of the composer’s death
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Bizarre, ingenious, forgotten
The Danish composer Rued Langgaard was an eccentric who for the most part found himself at odds with his fellow human beings.
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If I weren’t a musician… Raphael Haeger
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A short piano lexicon
Anyone attending a piano recital is often confronted with a plethora of work names, such as prélude, nocturne, sonata and étude. What do these names mean, and what defines these pieces? In our short piano lexicon, we introduce you to the major genres of piano music one at a time.
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Does God speak Italian?
Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” is a trial of strength between art and the Church.
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With pomp and circumstance
The Baroque – an age of superlatives
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Jesper Busk Sørensen
If I were not a musician ...
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9 Facts you (perhaps) didn't know about Verdi
You can hum along to “La donna è mobile” in your sleep, but did you know that Verdi was a vintner, a member of parliament and a keen foodie?
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If I were not a musician...
With violinist Anna Mehlin, for whom perfection and dedication are important not only in music.
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And the Pain Remains Forever
A portrait of Mieczysław Weinberg
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Brightening up sleepless nights
The mysteries of the “Goldberg Variations”
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Triumph in Moscow
Shostakovich’s Tenth and the Berliner Philharmoniker
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Boards that mean the world
A new stage floor for the Philharmonie
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Fleeing, pursuing, coming together
The fascinating world of the fugue
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“Ask Augustin”
Portrait of violinist Augustin Hadelich
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If I were not a musician ...
with principal cellist Bruno Delepelaire
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Lord of the score
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Clara Schumann and the Berliner Philharmoniker
On the 200th birthday of the pianist and composer
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The Networkers
Russian composers between East and West
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A Finn in Berlin
Jean Sibelius and the Berliner Philharmoniker
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Into the realm of dreams
The medium of film and its music in the 1920s