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The first of five concerts this week showcasing highlights from the season around Europe. On August 23rd 2019 one of the most hotly anticipated musical partnerships officially got underway as Kirill Petrenko stood before the Berlin Philharmonic as its new Chief Conductor. Each of their previous concerts had left a deep impression on audiences, critics and the orchestra itself, and for this inaugural concert, Petrenko chose to pair the sumptuous suite from Berg's late-Romantic, 12-tone operatic masterpiece with Beethoven's final symphony, its visionary choral finale, a hymn to joy, freighted with so many associations both in Germany and internationally.

Recorded last August in the Philharmonie, Berlin and presented by Georgia Mann.

Berg: Lulu Suite

8.00pm
Interval music (from CD)
Brahms: Horn Trio Op.40
Sarah Willis, horn
Kotowa Machida, Violin
Cordelia Hoefer, piano

8.25pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 ('Choral')

Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano)
Benjamin Bruns (tenor)
Kwangchul Youn (bass)
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic
Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Followed by:
Laura Snowden and Chandos Chamber Choir
Making Music鈥檚 Adopt a Composer scheme, in association with Sound and Music, paired composer and choir to create a piece of music. Follow Laura Snowden and the Chandos Chamber Choir behind the scenes in this short feature about their journey together, and hear the piece Laura wrote for the choir, 'Evensong' conducted by James Davey.