Watercolour sketch of a male head.
Arnold Schönberg, self-portrait, in 1919 | Picture: Belmont Music Publishers, Los Angeles, courtesy: Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien

Concert information

Musikfest Berlin


Info

Schoenberg and Brahms – they sound like separate worlds. However, the twelve-tone composer was partly responsible for saving the late Romantic for the Modern Age. With Brahms’s “Tragische Ouvertüre” and the American minimalism of John Adams’s “Harmonielehre” the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin finds a frame for Schoenberg’s songs, whose huge contrasts demonstrate the remarkable breadth of his music.


Artists

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano (replacing Christina Bock)


Programme

Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture in D minor, op. 81

Arnold Schoenberg
Four Songs, op. 22

Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano (replacing Christina Bock)

John Adams
Harmonielehre


Additional information

An event by Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in cooperation with Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin



Main Auditorium

Introduction
19:10