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Get to know the Berliner Philharmoniker’s guests in conversation.

• Himari in conversation with Helena Madoka Berg
• Jakub Hrůša in conversation with Knut Weber
• Joana Mallwitz in conversation with Eva-Maria Tomasi
• Dalia Stasevska in conversation with Sebastian Krunnies
• Marin Alsop in conversation with Allan Nilles
• Outi Tarkiainen about “Day Night Day”
• Miroslav Srnka about “Superorganisms”
• David Robertson in conversation with Albrecht Mayer
• Ludwig Quandt on Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen” Suite
• Daniel Harding in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
• “Upbeat”: Sofia Gubaidulina’s “The wrath of God”
• Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Philipp Bohnen
• Tugan Sokhiev, Donghoon Shin and Amihai Grosz in conversation
• Tugan Sokhiev on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1
• Tugan Sokhiev on Lili Boulanger’s “D’un matin de printemps”
• Daniil Trifonov in conversation with Stefan Dohr
• Leif Ove Andsnes in conversation with Andraž Golob
• Herbert Blomstedt on Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
• Andris Nelsons in conversation with Vincent Vogel
• Simone Young in conversation with Matthew McDonald
• Five questions for Vida Miknevičiūtė
• “Upbeat”: Sergei Rachmaninov’s “Isle of the Dead”
• Vilde Frang in conversation with Stephan Koncz
• Giovanni Antonini in conversation with Matthew Hunter
• Fatma Said in conversation with Matthew Hunter
• Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker talk about Daniel Barenboim
• Sakari Oramo in conversation with Aleksandar Ivić
• Sakari Oramo and Kirill Gerstein in conversation with Aleksandar Ivić
• Augustin Hadelich in conversation with Raimar Orlovsky
• Paavo Järvi and Seong-Jin Cho in conversation with Stephan Koncz

Our work introductions offer you an easy starting point for selected pieces of music.

• Outi Tarkiainen about “Day Night Day”
• Miroslav Srnka about “Superorganisms”
• Ludwig Quandt on Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen” Suite
• “Upbeat”: Sofia Gubaidulina’s “The wrath of God”
• Tugan Sokhiev on Lili Boulanger’s “D’un matin de printemps”
• Tugan Sokhiev on Mahler’s Symphony No. 1
• Tugan Sokhiev, Donghoon Shin and Amihai Grosz in conversation
• Herbert Blomstedt on Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
• “Upbeat”: Sergei Rachmaninov’s “Isle of the Dead”
• “Upbeat”: Wolfgang Rihm’s “IN-SCHRIFT”
• Simon Rattle on Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony
• “Upbeat” with Kirill Petrenko: Bedřich Smetana’s “Má vlast”
• “Schubert Marathon” – Part 2: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
• “Schubert Marathon” – Part 1: an introduction by Susanne Stähr
• Lisa Batiashvili in conversation with Amihai Grosz
• Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Christoph Streuli
• Daniele Gatti in conversation with Wolfgang Talirz
• Ondřej Adámek on “Sinuous Voices”
• “Upbeat” with Kirill Petrenko: Alban Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra
• Herbert Blomstedt on Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica”
• Herbert Blomstedt on Richard Strauss’s “Metamorphosen”
• Richard Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben” – an introduction with Malte Krasting
• Max Reger’s “Mozart Variations” – an introduction with Malte Krasting
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony – an introduction with Meike Pfister
• Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto – an introduction with Meike Pfister
• Julia Wolfe’s Pretty – an introduction
• Lisa Streich’s ISHJÄRTA – an introduction
• Esa-Pekka Salonen on “Karawane”
• Paavo Järvi, Daishin Kashimoto and Toshio Hosokawa in conversation and in rehearsal
• Esa-Pekka Salonen and Olivier Latry on the Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra

• Jonas Kaufmann in conversation with Jonathan Kelly
• Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Stefan Dohr
• John Adams in conversation with Noah Bendix-Balgley
• Peter Sellars in conversation with Sarah Willis
• Simon Rattle talks about Beethoven’s symphonies
• Yuja Wang in conversation with Andreas Ottensamer
• Christian Gerhaher, Gijs Leenaars and Christian Thielemann about Brahms’s “Deutsches Requiem”
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall – Memories of Musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker
• Hilary Hahn in conversation with Albrecht Mayer
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin in conversation with Emmanuel Pahud
• “Carmen” at the Berlin Philharmonie
• Zubin Mehta on Bruckner’s Eighth: an introduction to the work with excerpts from rehearsals
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt in conversation with Olaf Wilhelmer
• Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini and Anna Prohaska on old and new musical friendships
• Christian Thielemann, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson on Richard Strauss
• Frank Peter Zimmermann in conversation with Christoph Streuli
• Janine Jansen and Daniel Harding in conversation with Sarah Willis
• Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Edicson Ruiz
• Sir Simon Rattle about Herbert von Karajan