Two young men are standing in the concert hall of the Philharmonie with their backs to the camera, looking at the stage. The concert is about to start.
Picture: Frederike van der Straeten

Concert information


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In our new series Ausklang, you can experience the Berliner Philharmoniker in a condensed form. A single major work is featured, followed by a relaxed get-together in the foyer, including a free drink. This time the conductor is Gustavo Dudamel, famous for his dynamism and charisma. We will hear Peter Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony - music that is full of longing, warmth and radiance, just as it tells of man’s rebellion against his fate. This is a battle fraught with drama, interrupted by an airy waltz in the third movement.


Artists

Berliner Philharmoniker
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Philipp Bohnen presentation


Programme

Piotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64


Additional information

Duration ca. 1 hour



Main Auditorium

20 to 49 €

Biography

Gustavo Dudamel

“The evening might go down as the most electrifying debut in the orchestra’s history,” wrote the Tagesspiegel after Gustavo Dudamel's 2008 Waldbühne concert. At the time just 27 years old, the conductor – an alumnus of Venezuela’s music education programme El Sistema and winner of the International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition – had embarked on a meteoric career that would take him to the world’s leading orchestras and opera houses. Since 2009, he has served as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and will take up the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from the 2026/27 season.

Gustavo Dudamel has also led the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela since the age of 18. He shares a deep artistic friendship with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Each season, he brings his vibrant style of music-making to the orchestra in highly-accalaimed guest appearances, often featuring the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. The orchestra has repeatedly invited him to headline high-profile events: the New Year’s Eve Concert in 2010, the 2012 Europakonzert in Vienna, and the major Asia tour in 2018. A recurring highlight of their collaboration is the Waldbühne: following his debut in 2008, further concerts there took place in 2014 and 2017 – and once again this season, Gustavo Dudamel will join the Berliner Philharmoniker to close the season under the open sky.