CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

The very idea of the Berliner Philharmoniker playing Puccini operas  should raise a wry smile when one thinks of the orchestra's mag...

A regular reader sends an alert about Stravinsky Histore du Soldat i n Berlin, auf Deutsch. Wow, this is electric ! Isabel Karajan,  the ...

Berlin comes to London! The Berliner Philharmoniker 2012-13 season began on 24th August with a gala concert featuring Witold Lutosławski....

Thanks to its digital programme, the Berliner Philharmoniker is everyone's hometown orchestra. Season details out now for  2012/13. N...

Happy Birthday, Friedrich der Große! It's Frederick the Great's 300th birthday and even a baroque potentate wouldn't do 300 cand...

Might the fabled "lost" documentary about Wilhelm Furtwängler made by his son Florian be about to surface again? Jointly commissio...

Who was Heinrich Kaminski (1886-1946)? Admired by Arnold Schoenberg and a leading figure in German music circles, he's largely forgotten...

Andris Nelsons is conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker on Sunday morning 1100 German time. Despite a horribly busy week, I'll be up e...

"I am Claudio to everyone." Claudio Abbado told the Berliner Philharmoniker when he became their Chief Conductor in 1989. The cont...

Hear the whole concert on the Berliner Philharmoniker site !

There was no way any performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker would be anything...

Live on Wednesday 18th May, the anniversary of Mahler's death one hundred years ago. Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker...

Dream concert - Berliner Philharmoniker, Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, lesser known Strauss songs and Strauss orchestral party pieces.  Li...

Real reason to celebrate! The Berliner Philharmoniker is streaming in full one of last year's finest Proms - the "mega symphony...

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is in Berlin  on a major State vist, only the first since Reunification. It's a historic occasion, the ...

"Every experience is unique" says Fergus McWilliams, horn player of the Berliner Philharmoniker in the broadcast now available...

Seldom have I heard a more gloriously ecstatic beginning to Mahler's Fourth Symphony than this performance at London's Barbican wit...

A week after their concert in Berlin, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle brought Mahler 1 and Beethoven 4 to Prom 65.  Silly to ...

For review, please see http://classical-iconoclast.blogspot.com/2010/09/rattle-berliner-mahler-1-beethoven-prom.html   Please see my review...

The Berliner-Philharmoniker reveals its new season May to May 2010-2011. here . Mahler, of course, but upmarket and with an edge. There'...