“Tipping Points. Fourteen ways to describe climate change”

Biennale of the Berliner Philharmoniker

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Info

Gentle drizzling, vigorous splashing, thunderous drumming – rain comes in many guises. Hanns Eisler’s 1941 film score Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain was one of his best chamber music works. Today, in the face of accelerating climate change, weather patterns take on a whole new urgency. Inspired by Eisler, Gregor Mayrhofer explores these phenomena in his composition Tipping Points. Fourteen ways to describe climate change, a commissioned work which will be premiered as part of our Biennale, explores pivotal moments for our climate. The physicist and science journalist Harald Lesch will host this dialogue concert.

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Artists

Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Gregor A. Mayrhofer conductor
Harald Lesch presentation
Philipp Bohnen violin
Ulrich Knörzer viola
Ludwig Quandt cello
Janusz Widzyk double bass
Anja Malkov flute
Dominik Wollenweber oboe
Matic Kuder clarinet
Barbara Kehrig bassoon
László Gál french horn
Riccardo Caruso drums
Korbinian Fichtl drums
N.N. piano

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Programme

Gregor A. Mayrhofer
Tipping Points. Vierzehn Arten den Klimawandel zu beschreiben, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation (Première)

Franz Liszt
Nuages gris (arr. Gregor Mayrhofer)

Hanns Eisler
Vierzehn Arten den Regen zu beschreiben

Interval

Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps: 3rd Movement Abîme des oiseaux

Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps: 8th Movement Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus