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Philharmonie Berlin

Hans Scharoun’s Philharmonie opened in 1963 to replace the orchestra’s old hall, destroyed in the war. It stood at the edge of West Berlin, close to the Wall, and after reunification it found itself near the new centre around Potsdamer Platz. Its tent-like roof and bright yellow skin make it easy to spot. Inside, Scharoun put the orchestra in the middle, with the audience on terraces rising around it, the so-called vineyard layout. The design was controversial at first but has since become a model for concert halls around the world, from Tokyo to Paris. A Chamber Music Hall, planned with the main building, was added some twenty years later. The Philharmonie is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker, which gives most of its Berlin concerts in the Great Hall.

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  1. Concert on 13.05.2027 14.05.2027 15.05.2027: Berliner Philharmoniker, Sokhiev, Bronfman, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Tugan Sokhiev and Yefim Bronfman: Britten, Mozart’s C minor Concerto and Shostakovich’s ‘The Year 1917’. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  2. Concert on 20.05.2027 21.05.2027 22.05.2027: Berliner Philharmoniker, Mäkelä, Lim, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Klaus Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim: Larcher, Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s Seventh. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  3. Kirill Petrenko conducts “Hänsel und Gretel”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Kirill Petrenko Conducts Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  4. Dima Slobodeniouk and Yo-Yo Ma, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Dima Slobodeniouk and Yo-Yo Ma: Dean, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  5. Elim Chan and Seong-Jin Cho with Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Elim Chan and Seong-Jin Cho: Gubaidulina, Prokofiev and Lutosławski. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  6. Alan Gilbert and Isabelle Faust, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Alan Gilbert and Isabelle Faust: Brett Dean and Schumann’s Second Symphony. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  7. Jakub Hrůša and Yuja Wang, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Jakub Hrůša and Yuja Wang: Dvořák, Bartók and Brahms. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  8. Kirill Petrenko opens the Biennale of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Kirill Petrenko opens the Biennale: Messiaen, Nemtsov and Hindemith. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  9. François-Xavier Roth conducts Strauss, Berlioz and Boulanger, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in François-Xavier Roth conducts Strauss, Berlioz and Boulanger. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  10. Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  11. Sakari Oramo and Vilde Frang, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Sakari Oramo and Vilde Frang: Dean, Britten and Sibelius. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  12. Markus Poschner and Christian Gerhaher, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Markus Poschner and Christian Gerhaher: Mahler, Diepenbrock and Schubert’s Great C major. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  13. Lahav Shani and Martha Argerich, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Lahav Shani and Martha Argerich: Debussy, Prokofiev and Pictures at an Exhibition. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  14. Kirill Petrenko conducts Richard Wagner’s “Walküre”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Die Walküre in Concert: Kirill Petrenko Continues the Ring. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  15. Russian Modernism with Christian Tetzlaff and Paavo Järvi, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Paavo Järvi and Christian Tetzlaff: Pärt, Shostakovich and Prokofiev’s Fifth. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  16. Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  17. Gustavo Dudamel and Mitsuko Uchida, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Gustavo Dudamel and Mitsuko Uchida: Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto and Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  18. Symphonic Landscapes: Kirill Petrenko and Leif Ove Andsnes, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Symphonic Landscapes: Kirill Petrenko and Leif Ove Andsnes in Sibelius, Grieg and the Pastoral Symphony. Accessed 7 October 2026.
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  21. Petr Popelka debuts with Schumann’s “Spring Symphony”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in A Spring Awakening: From Bohemia to Vienna. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  22. Kirill Petrenko conducts Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Symphony of a Thousand: Mahler’s Eighth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  23. Lahav Shani conducts Dvořák’s Symphony “From the New World”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Questions and Answers: From America to the New World. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  24. Concert on 28.01.2026 29.01.2026 30.01.2026 Berliner Philharmoniker, Petrenko, Jansen, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in From Earth to Heaven: Brahms and Scriabin. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  25. Paavo Järvi and Lang Lang with Ravel’s Piano Concerto, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in A Frenchman in New York and a Lost Viennese Genius. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  26. Michael Sanderling meets Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Romantic Rivals and a Brotherhood at the Keyboard. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  27. Tugan Sokhiev conducts Berlioz’ “Symphonie fantastique”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Seascapes, Reconciliation, and a Descent into Madness. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  28. Daniel Harding conducts Strauss’ “Don Quixote”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Knights Errant: From Wagner’s Pilgrims to Strauss’s Windmills. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  29. Kirill Petrenko conducts Wagner’s “Das Rheingold”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Das Rheingold: The Beginning of the End. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  30. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla makes her debut with Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in From Puppets to Star-Crossed Lovers: A Lithuanian Debut. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  31. Herbert Blomstedt conducts Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Funeral Music for the Master. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  32. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Stravinsky’s “The Firebird”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in A Game of Thrones: New Music Meets the Firebird. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  33. Mahler’s Third with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Joyce DiDonato, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in A Universe in Sound: Mahler’s Third Symphony. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  34. Kirill Petrenko and Víkingur Ólafsson with Brahms and Strauss, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Storm and Sunrise: Brahms’s First Concerto and Also sprach Zarathustra. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  35. Berliner Philharmoniker, Fischer, Bendix-Balgley, Delepelaire, Kelly, Schweigert, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Iván Fischer conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  36. Berliner Philharmoniker, Mehta, Zukerman, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Zubin Mehta and Pinchas Zukerman with Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  37. Berliner Philharmoniker, Emelyanychev, Zeng, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Mendelssohn, Mozart and Haydn. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  38. Berliner Philharmoniker, Petrenko, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Kirill Petrenko conducts Respighi and Martucci. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  39. Marek Janowski conducts Bruckner’s Eighth, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Marek Janowski conducts Bruckner’s Eighth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  40. Maxime Pascal makes his debut with Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Maxime Pascal conducts Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  41. New Year’s Eve Concert with Kirill Petrenko and Alexander Malofeev, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in New Year’s Eve Concert with Kirill Petrenko and Alexander Malofeev. Accessed 30 September 2026.