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Eine Alpensinfonie – A film by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

with Reinhold Messner
Frederic Wake-Walker, concept and director
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Robin Ticciati

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. 
 

Repertoire

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Facts

Prog. No.
6851
Music genre
Orchestral Music
Entertainment
Length
52 mins
Lenght short
57
Director
Andreas Morell
Producers
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in coproduction with EuroArts & rbb Kultur
Production year
2021
Format
HD