Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Berlin Philharmonic

January 2024

  • Martin James Bartlett standing in front of a bright green door, wearing a white shirt and tan coloured jacket, hands raised as if playing the piano, smiling

    Home listening
    Classical home listening: Martin James Bartlett: La Danse; Arvo Pärt: Tractus

    The British pianist cuts a dash on his all-French new record, while string orchestra and choir join forces on ECM’s latest album of works by the Estonian composer

December 2023

  • The Philharmonic Brass

    Classical home listening: the Philharmonic Brass; Circus Dinogad; Hear Now Berlin

    The illustrious brass sections of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic get together on a dazzling album of overtures. Plus, two intriguing gems…

November 2023

  • Unsuk Chin

    Unsuk Chin: Edition album review – a perfect introduction to her magical soundworld


    A ravishing range of colour and texture is on display in these archive performances of the South Korean composer’s work

January 2023

  • Daniel Barenboim

    Daniel Barenboim to resign from Berlin State Opera role due to poor health

    Conductor and pianist says he can ‘no longer achieve the level of performance required of a general music director’

November 2022

  • AUSTRIA-HEALTH-VIRUS-MUSIC<br>British conductor Daniel Harding conducts musicians of Vienna's Philharmonic Orchestra during a rehearsal at Musikverein music hall in Vienna on May 20, 2021, prior to the orchestra's appearance in front of an audience since November 2020, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. - Vienna's classical musicians are preparing once again to grace the city's stages after months of separation from their audiences which have tested their commitment and played havoc with their practice. - TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Anne BEADE (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Anne BEADE (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

    He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

October 2022

  • GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (TCHERNIAKOV) Berlin State Opera Staatsoper Berlin

    The week in classical: The Ring of the Nibelung; Berlin Philharmonic/ Fischer review – a human experiment

    Outstanding performances can’t save Tcherniakov’s new Ring, complete with live rabbits, from closing to a barrage of boos…

September 2022

  • Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic

    Prom 62: Berlin Phil/Petrenko review – sinister magic marks a concert of startling brilliance

    Petrenko proved his mastery of Mahler’s Seventh yet again as he brought out its lurking ambiguity in a performance that hovered between dream and nightmare

October 2021

  • Bernard Haitink conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at The Barbican in March 2019, during a concert celebrating his 90th birthday.

    Bernard Haitink obituary

    Conductor in demand by the world’s greatest orchestras who made a huge contribution as music director of the Royal Opera House

September 2021

  • Lucerne Festival | Sommer-Festival 2021 | Oper Partenope | Les Arts Florissants | William Christie | Solist*innen "Jardin des Voix" Luzern, 03.09. 2021 | KKL Luzern, Konzertsaal © Peter Fischli / Lucerne Festival

    The week in classical: Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko; Partenope at the Lucerne festival

    Mesmerising Schubert and sparkling Handel were highlights at this year’s ‘crazy’ Swiss festival

February 2021

  • The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Sir Simon Rattle perform without an audience at the Berlin Philharmonie, March, 2020.

    Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 review – a sumptuous Berlin Phil moves from the glib to the sublime

  • Berlin Philharmonic concert with Daniil Trifonov on piano and Kirill Petrenko conducting.

    Lockdown culture
    Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko review – Thorvaldsdottir's utterly convincing musical world

July 2020

  • Dress rehearsal of Curlew River at St. Giles church, Cripplegate in London on Tuesday 12 Nov. 2013. Photo by Mark Allan

    Lockdown culture
    Lockdown listening: classical music and opera to stream at home

    With concert halls and opera houses closed, organisations and musicians across the world are livestreaming concerts and opening up their digital archives

March 2020

  • The Royal Opera House, London, which closed after the outbreak of Corona virus in the UK. Photographed 18 March 2019

    Home listening
    Classical music: let the Berlin Phil come to you

    With concert halls and opera houses closed, we sample the stay-at-home alternatives from Budapest to Dar es Salaam

August 2019

  • New chief conductor Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic at the Philharmonie

    The week in classical: Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko review – thrillingly eruptive

  • Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic as it performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

    Berlin Philharmonic enters new era with Kirill Petrenko as its shy figurehead

May 2019

  • Handout picture of Kirill Petrenko

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 review – leaves you neither shaken nor stirred

    Kirill Petrenko’s first recording with his new orchestra has plenty to admire but taken as a whole feels rather underpowered

December 2018

  • Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmonike, Prom 66 2018 (same as Prom 68)

    Best culture 2018
    Top 10 classical music events of 2018

    Kirill Petrenko gave a foretaste of his time at the Berlin Phil; at 92, Kurtág finally took Beckett to the opera; and young Leeds winner Eric Lu astonished

September 2018

  • Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms.

    The week in classical: Proms 66 & 68; Paul Bunyan review – Berlin passes the baton

  • Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Proms 66 & 68: Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko review – superlative music making

June 2018

  • BEPhil amateur orchestra reheasing with Simon Rattle, May 2018

    Amateur dramatics: my week playing for Simon Rattle

    What’s it like to be directed by the great conductor? One amateur violinist found when she joined the Berlin Philharmonic’s BE PHIL orchestra for five inspiring days
About 159 results for Berlin Philharmonic
1234...
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：