Gregor Tassie

Resounding success for three avant-garde masterpieces at Musikfest Berlin 2022

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [12] – Xenakis, Zimmermann, Dallapiccola: Wolfgang Koch (baritone), Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor), Caspar Singh (tenor), Oliver Boyd (baritone), Rundfunkchor Berlin (chorusmaster: Gijs Leenaars), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall from the Philharmonie Berlin, 17.9.2022. (GT)

Kirill Petrenko conducts Wolfgang Koch (The Prisoner) and the Berlin Philharmonic © Bettina Stoss

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The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra are terrific ambassadors for the Ukraine at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [7] – Skoryk, Lysenko, Karamanov, Sibelius: Tamara Stefanovich (pianist), Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra / Hobart Earle (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, 6.9.2022, livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Hobart Earle conducts the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra © Fabian Schellhorn

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Scottish Opera perform Massenet’s Thérèse in concert

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Scottish Opera’s new concert production of Massenet’s Thérèse
launches their new season

Justina Gringytė, Dingle Yandell and Shengzhi Ren in rehearsal

The star of this rarely staged opera from Massenet’s late period, Thérèse, is the Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Justina Gringytė whose performance as Carmen in Bizet’s popular opera at Scottish Opera was highly praised by the media.

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Igor Levit performs an illuminating and unforgettable Busoni Piano Concerto at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [6] – Schoenberg, Busoni: Igor Levit (pianist), Orchestre e Coro dell Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 5.9.2022, and livestreamed on the Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano © Fabian Schellhorn

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Lahav Shani conducts an outstandingly memorable Mahler’s First Symphony at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [5] – Ligeti, Pijper, Mahler: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Lahav Shani (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 4.9.2022, and livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Lahav Shani conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra © Fabian Schellhorn

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The Cleveland Orchestra perform a glorious, singing, Schubert Great C major at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [4] – Rihm, Schubert: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 3.9.2022, and livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

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Nézet-Séguin and his Philadelphians bring Florence Price’s First Symphony to Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [3] – Dvořák, Szymanowski, Price: Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 1.9.2022, livestreamed on the Digital Concert Hall, 1.9.2022. (GT)

Rehearsal: Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) and Lisa Batiashvili (violin) © Todd Rosenberg Photography

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a sublime Missa solemnis at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [2] – Beethoven: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Anna Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Giovanni Sala (tenor), William Thomas (bass), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 31.8.2022, and live-streamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis © Fabian Schellhorn

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