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Season Opening Kirill Petrenko conducts Elgar and Tchaikovsky

Name: Season Opening Kirill Petrenko conducts Elgar and Tchaikovsky
Start: 2026-08-21T19:00:00
Location: Berliner Philharmoniker

Berliner Philharmoniker

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Kirill Petrenko launches the new season with two works that are both sumptuous and rhapsodic. Beneath their radiant surfaces, however, lie hidden messages. Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations are built not only on a deeply expressive theme, but also on encoded musical portraits of friends and family members. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, meanwhile, threads his Symphony No. 4 with a “fate motif” – a musical allusion to the life crises that accompanied him duri...

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Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4

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Kirill Petrenko

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Berliner Philharmoniker

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1 dates (21 Aug - 21 Aug)

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