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On 30 August, Musikfest Berlin 2025 opens with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra and conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Until 23 September, the Berliner
Festspiele’s international festival of orchestral music – in
co-operation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation – will invite
to over 30 concerts in the Philharmonie Berlin, the Chamber Music Hall
and Konzerthaus Berlin.
Renowned ensembles from Paris, Rome, London, Ghent, the Netherlands,
Sweden, South Korea and Ukraine will be performing. Composers such as
Helmut Lachenmann, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Robin de Raaff and Lisa Streich
will attend. With more than 120 works by some 70 composers, the festival
presents music stretching from the Italian Renaissance through the
classical and romantic orchestral repertoire to 20th century modernism
and beyond, right up to the latest compositions of our own time. The
100th birthdays of Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio will be celebrated,
Lachenmann will be honoured with five concerts for his 90th birthday.
Younghi Pagh-Paan and Arvo Pärt will be celebrated on their
anniversaries in concerts by the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and the
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
On the opening weekend, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir are performing. From
Paris five ensembles are coming, among them the Orchestre de Paris with
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Mirga
Gražinytė-Tyla and Les Siècles with Isabelle Faust and Sarah Aristidou.
The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia present works by
Berio with Daniel Harding and Magdalena Kožená.
Chamber music concerts with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Senza
Sforzando ensemble from Odessa and the concert world premiere of the
Bauhaus opera “Parabola and Circula” by Marc Blitzstein enrich the
programme.
Fourteen concerts will be recorded by rbb and Deutschlandfunk Kultur,
four of which will be broadcast live.
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