Berliner Philharmoniker Stories

If I were not a musician ...

Cellist Nikolaus Römisch has another team.

People around Mahler

“Those who loved him became a part of his being.”

“The rushing gale of our great epoch”

Mahler and the road to symphonic grandeur

Of burnt kettles and intoxicating bass concerts

Solo bassist Matthew McDonald in conversation

Yearningly successful

Antonín Dvořák in America

Fifty Years of the Karajan Academy

A success story: the Karajan Academy has been training young orchestral talent since 1972

Richard Strauss and the Berliner Philharmoniker

On the 70th anniversary of the composer’s death

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.

If I weren’t a musician… Raphael Haeger

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.

Does God speak Italian?

Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” is a trial of strength between art and the Church.

With pomp and circumstance

The Baroque – an age of superlatives

Jesper Busk Sørensen

If I were not a musician ...

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?

If I were not a musician...

With violinist Anna Mehlin, for whom perfection and dedication are important not only in music.

And the Pain Remains Forever

A portrait of Mieczysław Weinberg

Brightening up sleepless nights

The mysteries of the “Goldberg Variations”

Triumph in Moscow

Shostakovich’s Tenth and the Berliner Philharmoniker

Boards that mean the world

A new stage floor for the Philharmonie

Fleeing, pursuing, coming together

The fascinating world of the fugue

“Ask Augustin”

Portrait of violinist Augustin Hadelich

If I were not a musician ...

with principal cellist Bruno Delepelaire

Lord of the score

Clara Schumann and the Berliner Philharmoniker

On the 200th birthday of the pianist and composer

The Networkers

Russian composers between East and West

A Finn in Berlin

Jean Sibelius and the Berliner Philharmoniker

Into the realm of dreams

The medium of film and its music in the 1920s