Biennale opening concert

Kirill Petrenko opens the Berliner Philharmoniker Biennale

Berliner Philharmoniker Biennale

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The Berliner Philharmoniker are launching their Biennale with the title Signs and Wonders. Kirill Petrenko also conducts three works of great spiritual and pictorial power: Olivier Messiaen's orchestral work Les Offrandes Oubliées is a floating, painful meditation on guilt, sacrifice and redemption; Paul Hindemith draws three pictures based on the famous Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald with expressive, majestically harsh sounds. In between, there will be the world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov's face — a distinctive voice of the younger generation of composers whose poetic, powerful music is directly touching.

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Berliner Philharmoniker Kirill Petrenko conductor

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Olivier MessiaEnles Offrandes oubliées

Sarah Nemtsovantlitz (premiere), commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, the Lucerne Festival and the Bavarian State Opera

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Paul HindemithSymphony Mathis der Maler

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Duration approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes (including a 20-minute break)

Berliner Philharmoniker Kirill Petrenko conductor

Program: Olivier Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliées Sarah Nemtsov Antlitz (premiere), commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, the Lucerne Festival and the Bavarian State Opera Pause Paul Hindemith Symphony Mathis the Painter Program note