Alsop makes her Berliner Philharmoniker debut with Biennale “Paradise lost?”
Thursday, Feb 20th (8pm), Friday, Feb 21 (8pm), Saturday Feb 22nd (7pm), Philharmonie Berlin, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1

The concert is part of “Paradise lost?” Biennale addressing climate change, species extinction, and environmental threats to our planet.

As part of this series of events, the Berliner Philharmoniker will present three concerts with guest conductors Marin Alsop and Dalia Stasevska. Notably, on March 8 & 9, Joana Mallwitz also makes her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, though not as part of the Biennale.

The Feb 20-22 Program explores themes of Nature, its beauty and endangerment, through music by composers from four continents.

Outi Tarkiainen: New work – Inspired by her native Lapland, the work is a co-commission from the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (premiere). The composer got inspired for this work by northern lights and the ice landscapes of Lapland. 

Brett Dean: Fire Music for orchestra (German premiere) – Fire Music draws on a devastating bushfire in Australia in 2009 and was named the best orchestral work of the year at the 2013 Australian ART Music Awards. Dean is a former member of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s viola section.

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (version for orchestra from 1954) – paying homage to the American spirit set in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania in the early 19th century. 

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 10 ˮRasga o coração“ for orchestra and mixed choir

Rundfunkchor Berlin
Gijs Leenaars chorus master
Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Chôros No. 10 echoes the birdsong of the Amazon heard in the depths of the Brazilian jungle.