The annual concert at the Berlin Waldbühne – one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheaters - is a highlight of every concert season of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 1993 Seiji Ozawa joined the Berliner Philharmoniker for the Russian Night which…

Sir Simon Rattle took up his post as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2002. In doing so, he took over an inheritance which was not only demanding, but which required a delicate balance of tradition and innovation. The Liverpool-born…

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a symbol of tolerance and understanding between people, opens with Jörg Widman’s Con brio and are then joined by the legendary Martha Argerich for Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 . The extraordinary concert is…

With her flexible and darkly-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle’s side during the New Year’s Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss’s lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The program also includes works by…

This DVD Box presents milestones of Riccardo Chailly’s time as chief conductor of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. His inauguration concert with the Gewandhausorchester is as well included in this DVD collection as the legendary Schumann concert with…

On 1st of May 2005 the Berliner Philharmoniker gave their fifteenth EUROPAKONZERT at the impressive Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. The concert program featured Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto performed by the Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, who…

For their annual season end concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker take the audience on a dreamy, magically journey through the river Rhine with Schumann’s beloved 3rd Symphony Rhenish . Pieces from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen under the baton of…

The EUROPAKONZERT 2017 brought the Berliner Philharmoniker to one of the most mythical places in history: Paphos, birthplace of Aphrodite. Andreas Ottensamer was the soloist with his interpretation of Weber‘s highly elaborate Clarinet Concerto . The…

Seiji Ozawa is not only a world-famous Japanese conductor, but also a founder and director of the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, home of the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which in 2015 was renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (OMF). In this all…

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók three masters of modernity, three masters of orchestral composition brought to life by the L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Tugan Sokhiev. Viennese timelessness, German romanticism…