musikfest berlin 10

2 to 21 September

musikfest berlin 10, Berlin’s impressive festival of orchestral music will open the new concert season. The visitor’s book boasts 37 world-class soloists, 27 choirs, ensembles and orchestras drawn from the cream of the international musical crop – along with the orchestral flagships harboured in the German capital: in the course of 20 days, at Berlin’s Philharmonie and its Chamber Music Hall, in the Parochialkirche and the Gethsemanekirche, and the in Konzerthaus at the Gendarmenmarkt, 24 events featuring over 60 works by some 25 different composers. At the epicentre of the programme: the musical works by Pierre Boulez, the great French composer and conductor whose 85th birthday the music world is celebrating this year, and music from his fellow composer, the Italian Luciano Berio. Furthermore, music by Stravinsky, Bartók, Prokofjev, Ravel and others.