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Concertante: Kirill Petrenko with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”

After staged performances at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, Kirill Petrenko conducts Madama Butterfly in concert in Berlin.

Kirill Petrenko with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony

Kirill Petrenko conducts Gustav Mahler’s last completed work: his Ninth Symphony.

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler for the first time with the Berliner Philharmoniker – the expressive Adagio of the Tenth Symphony and the yearning Lied von der Erde.

Klaus Mäkelä conducts Richard Strauss’ “Alpine Symphony”

With Strauss’ Alpine Symphony and Rihm’s Transitus III, Klaus Mäkelä brings us music that conjures impressive images of nature and describes profound emotional transformations.  

John Williams conducts John Williams

American film music superstar John Williams conducts his own iconic soundtracks. 

Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony” and Respighi’s “Fontane di Roma”

Kazuki Yamada makes his Berliner Philharmoniker debut with Saint-Saëns’ imposing “Organ Symphony” and captivating music about water by Respighi and Takemitsu.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven’s incidental music to Goethe’s Egmont and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.

Bundesjugendorchester, Patrick Lange and Midori

Violinist Midori joins the Bundesjungendorchester for a concert that includes works by Glanert, Brahms and Schönberg under the direction of Patrick Lange.  

50 years of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie celebrates 50 years: with Roderick Cox conducting, works by Missy Mazzoli, Luciano Berio and Igor Stravinsky are performed.

The Simply Quartet performs Mozart, Grieg, Clarke and Marsalis

The Simply Quartet makes its debut in the Quartet series with Mozart’s Hunting Quartet, Grieg’s Opus 27, Marsalis’ Creole Contradanzas and Clarke’s Poem.

In the snake pit: Les Accents and Thibault Noally

With Johann Adolf Hasse’s oratorio Serpentes ignei in deserto, the ensemble Les Accents takes us into a world full of drama, from anger to hope.

String quartets by Schumann and Rihm

Schumann’s op. 41 and Rihm’s Fourth String Quartet are two masterpieces of chamber music – played here by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic “Europeana” – a jazz homage to the European idea

The season finale of Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic celebrates the European idea with the NDR Bigband, Joachim Kühn, the Vision String Quartet and outstanding soloists such as Émile Parisien and Nils Landgren.

World: Sona Jobarteh – The magic of the African harp

Sona Jobarteh plays the kora, breaking with tradition to combine West African music and classical influences.

25 years Philharmonischer Salon

In the anniversary concert of the Philharmonischer Salon, Götz Teutsch, Heikko Deutschmann, Anna Prohaska and members of the Berliner Philharmoniker embark on a joyful exploration of the interplay between “art and kitsch”.

An evening of Ravel with Seong-Jin Cho

To mark Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday, our Artist in Residence Seong-Jin Cho presents a programme of the French composer’s multifaceted piano works.

Piano recital: Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven and Schubert

The legendary Mitsuko Uchida performs two sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert, concluding the piano series.

Organ matinee: In memoriam Jean Guillou

Zuzana Ferjenčíková makes her debut on the Philharmonie’s organ with works by Liszt, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Mussorgsky, a programme that honours her teacher, Jean Guillou.