Music
The Berlin Philharmonic: The Digital Concert Hall

7th Concert 2018

Mon, 07/09/2018
12:00 PM Goethe-Institut Chicago

Simon Rattle conducts Brahms, Lutosławski and Widmann
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle

Jörg Widmann
New Work commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation Première

Witold Lutosławski
Symphony No. 3

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68 

The concert evening will be opened by a piece of the so-called "Tapas" series initiated by Sir Simon, this time offered by Jörg Widmann. The Philharmoniker performed a number of works by the Munich-born composer and clarinettist, most recently his symphonic Hymnos Teufel Amor.

Lutosławski's compositional style was decisively influenced by the ideas of the musical avant-garde, which established itself after the Second World War and whose music he got to know through the "Warsaw Autumn" festival he founded. Under the influence of serial composition techniques, he developed the principle of "limited aleatorism", which also shapes his Third Symphony.

Johannes Brahms is also one of the composers conducted by the Philharmonic Orchestra. In January 1884, barely two years after the foundation of the orchestra, he presented himself for the first time as soloist of his First Piano Concerto and as conductor of his Third Symphony. Brahm's oeuvre is thus part of the orchestra's musical DNA.