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At the Dortmund Philharmonic's coffee house concerts, shopping and music lovers can indulge themselves with coffee and cake from various ensembles on Saturday afternoon. Culinary delicacies are accompanied by an hour of entertaining music, from Mozart to jazz.

There is no other symphony like this: two inner movements entitled "Night Music". As unusual as these movement titles are in a symphony, the characters of these two movements are just as unique. The first "Night Music" can be understood as a kind of nighttime walk, mixed with natural sounds such as birdsong and cowbells; the second is an idyllic serenade, in which the guitar and mandolin also have their say.

On their third nighttime excursion, our twins Jari and Jolli follow a wondrous melody and this time they reach the land of the stringed instruments via the cocoa slide. There they meet the cheerful Violinos, the elf-like Bratschella and the mysterious Cellodia. What adventure involving string instruments awaits them this time?

The great cycle My Fatherland (Má vlast) by Bedřich Smetana is popular all over the world, especially of course The Vltava . In the Czech Republic, however, the cycle is much more than that: a crystallization point of national consciousness. Every year, the great Prague Spring festival opens with it and My Fatherland is an indispensable part of the national holiday commemorating the founding of independent Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1918 .

Can an insider tip be a milestone? The works in this concert prove it. Bela Bartók is one of those composers who are performed far too rarely in our region - not even such solitary creative highlights as the music for string instruments, percussion and celesta . Folklorism and avant-garde, construction and expressivity, excited motor movement and shocking emotional climaxes - all of this is brought into a unique balance in the work. At the same time, Bartók also reinvented the sound of strings, which is reflected in the unusual title. The half-hour work, which even despises 20th century music, was an unprecedented triumph for Bartók at its premiere and was performed around fifty times in ten different countries within a year. Since then, it has been considered a cult piece of modernism.

Almost exactly one hundred years after the premiere in Los Angeles on June 26, 1925, the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra is presenting Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush , probably the most popular film by the great actor and director. The film reconciles the incompatible and balances in an inimitable way between tragedy and comedy, between laughter and horror.

Hardly any other composer of the 20th century remained as committed to the sound language of late Romanticism in his work as Sergei Rachmaninoff. With this approach, he created works that still speak to us today with their emotional density, melodic richness and tangible drama. The crystallization point of his work is the series of his piano concertos and symphonies. When Gabriel Feltz puts these very works on the program in his last three concerts as General Music Director on a single day, it is possible to follow Rachmaninoff's creative development in concentrated form. This reveals the enormous range of expressive worlds between euphoria, pathos, thoughtfulness, sensitivity and deep dejection in which Rachmaninoff moved in his music.

The composer Joseph Haydn, known as "Papa Haydn", has a big problem: he just can't think of anything sensible for his latest symphony, which is supposed to be called "The Giraffe"! His musicians (colleagues) can't help him, even though he has already written symphonies for them such as "The Bear", "The Hen" and "The Hunt". "The Drum Roll" isn't quite right either...

A concert for and by young people: Together with the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Dortmund youth orchestra DOJO | DORTMUND MUSIK is devoting itself to a symphonic classic, the lyrical, positive Seventh by Prokofiev. The young musicians are actively supported in their preparation by the Dortmund Philharmonic through coaching and rehearsals. At the concert, they will sit together with them on the large stage of the concert hall.