Big orchestra on a big screen. Fancy experiencing the season opener from the Konzerthaus Berlin under the summer evening sky? You can, via livestream!
As you sit back in your chair and raise a glass to this cultural experience, the stage at the Gendarmenmarkt fills with the musicians of the Konzerthaus Orchestra.
The Konzerthausorchester and Jonathan Nott get the season off to a magical start: in "Ma mère l’oye” ["My Mother, the Goose”], Maurice Ravel brings Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb and others to musical life in charming miniatures.
His famous piece "La Valse” from 1920, by contrast, is permeated by eerie undertones, as it is both a dance of death and an ironic homage to the 19th century. The Konzerthausorchester sticks to dancing with movements from Prokofiev’s richly orchestrated, rhythmically complex ballet "Romeo and Juliet”.
In between, our new composer-in-residence, Unsuk Chin, introduces herself with "Subito con forza” ["suddenly, with force”; 2020] is full of allusions to Beethoven’s music, the 200th anniversary of whose death falls in 2027. Unsuk Chin describes her work as a "personal homage to what is arguably the first modernist composer in the history of music.”
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