Berliner Philharmoniker: Alan Gilbert and Isabelle Faust

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  – Alan Gilbert

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  – Isabelle Faust

Alan Gilbert describes Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 as a “musical autobiography” – a work shaped both by the composer’s love for his wife Clara and by his artistic model, Johann Sebastian Bach. Schumann combines dense contrapuntal writing with irresistibly intimate melodies. Brett Dean, this season’s Composer in Residence, has called his Violin Concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing a “pretty tricky piece” – tailor-made for Isabelle Faust’s precision and clarity. The work sounds sensuous yet fragile, a nostalgic evocation of a world in which people still wrote letters.

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 17/June/2027 20:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue Philharmonie Berlin
• Address Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten