2023-08-31 17:24:42
Berlin Philharmonic in the KKL: Where is the competition here?
The top orchestra from Germany plays beautifully to die for. And pretty boring – at least in the first part. But following the break, it lets go of all the reins.
Anne-Sophie Mutter did not play with the Berlin Philharmonic at the KKL, but with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Image: Patrick Hürlimann/Lucerne Festival
The Berliners are here! Always a big event. For many, they are simply the best orchestra in the world. The concert hall at the Lucerne Festival is not completely sold out this year. Nearly. The program is probably too far away from mainstream taste. The composer Max Reger is not a street sweeper. Richard Strauss and his atonal interlacing isn’t exactly the relaxed following-work program either. But such “atypical” concerts are typical for Berliners. They regularly cross the straight festival line of Mahler, Bruckner and Brahms. For example, in 2021 they roused the audience with Paul Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphoses”. Or with the “Johannes Passion” by Johann Sebastian Bach, which the orchestra performed almost 10 years ago – in a small cast and still under Simon Rattle – in the KKL.
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