Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, © Festspielhaus
Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, © Photo: Myrzik und Jarisch
Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, © Photo: Myrzik und Jarisch

Beethoven Symphony No. 9: Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko at Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden

Baden‐Baden, Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden

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About the Event

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra included Beethoven's 9th Symphony in its program in 1883, the year it was founded. Franz Wüllner established a long tradition of important interpretations of this key classical work in Berlin. Hans von Bülow, who loved Baden‐Baden, once even arranged for a double performance of the work, which was of course also given special interpretations by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado. On taking up his post in August 2019, Kirill Petrenko explained: “There is only one work with which I can begin my work here in Berlin, Beethoven's Ninth.” He is now leaving Baden‐Baden with this work.

Practical Information

The categories on the seating plan are divided as follows:
Category 1 = yellow
Category 2 = pink
Category 3 = red
Category 4 = blue
Category 5 = green
Category 6 = blackberry
Category 7 = dark brown
Category 8 = light brown

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven – 9. Symphonie d‐Moll op. 125

Program is subject to change

Artists

Choir:	Rundfunkchor Berlin
Orchestra:	Berliner Philharmoniker Peter Tchaikovsky, a frequent guest of the Philharmonic Society, enthused after a concert: "The splendid Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin possesses a special quality, for which I can find no more appropriate expression than elasticity. They have the capacity to adapt themselves to the dimensions of a Berlioz or a Liszt, and of reproducing with equal mastery the variegated arabesques of the former and the thunderous cannonades of the latter — yet they are able to exercise the restraint called for by the gentleness of a Haydn…. The members of the Philharmonic Orchestra do not work in the theaters and are therefore not worn out and exhausted. Moreover, they are a self‐governing body, they play for their own benefit and not for an entrepreneur who takes the lion's share of the profits for himself. The coincidence of these favorable and exceptional conditions naturally contributes to the harmony of the artistic performance…"
Conductor:	Kirill Petrenko
Bass:	Tareq Nazmi
Soprano:	Katharina Konradi
Alto:	Beth Taylor
Tenor:	Sebastian Kohlhepp
Alto:	Beth Taylor
Tenor:	Sebastian Kohlhepp

Address

Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof 2, Baden‐Baden, Germany — Google Maps