Recorded at Berlin’s Tempodrom, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and its chief conductor Robin Ticciati present Richard Strauss’s "An Alpine Symphony" as a musical and philosophical mountain hike with the legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner.
Existential reports from Messner engage in a cinematic dialogue with concert recordings that were made in a 360-degree arrangement of the impressive large orchestral forces around DSO Music Director Robin Ticciati in Berlin’s Tempodrom.
The concert leads us through the Alps, lets the audience pass flowering meadows en route, through thickets and underbrush, over mountain pastures and glaciers to the summit, and finally the descent surrounded by thunderstorms. Juxtaposed with this, Messner provides insights into the physical and psychological borderline experiences of his mountain ascents and speaks about extreme situations, the perception of nature, and his mental state on the night before departure, during the conquest of the peak, during the long, onerous descent and the exhausted, contented return home.

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Robin Ticciati, conductor

with Reinhold Messner

Progr. No.: 6851

TV Director: Andreas Morell

Duration:  45/57'

Produced by Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in coproduction with EuroArts & rbb Kultur

Nico and the Navigators

Kuss Quartett

Beethoven between force and freedom. 

For more than 20 years, Nico and the Navigators have been among the most important independent music theatre ensembles in Europe. With their "staged concerts", celebrated both by press and audiences alike, the Berlin-based company has developed an extraordinarily new approach to musical works.

For the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, Nico and the Navigators and the Kuss Quartet premiere their latest production "Force & Freedom".

Duration: 87'

TV Directors: Nicola Hümpel, Myriam Hoyer

Produced by EuroArts Music & Nico and the Navigators