On 26, 27 and 28 February maestro Gergiev will be conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchester – the most important symphony orchestra in Germany – with which he will appear in three concerts at the Großer Saal of the Berliner Philharmonie. The programme includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Sergei Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony. The piano solo will be performed by renowned French pianist Hélène Grimaud, who has frequently appeared with Valery Gergiev.
Tickets to these concerts were sold out long before the actual performances though there will be a live internet broadcast available to all via the so-called Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall. The broadcast begins at 19:00 (GMT+1) with a fee payable. For details please go to the orchestra’s website: www.berliner-philharmoniker.de.
Berlin is a city that has played an important role in maestro Gergiev’s artistic career. It was in Berlin in 1976 that, while still a student of the Leningrad Conservatoire, he became a prize-winner of the highly prestigious International Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition, von Karajan himself them being Music Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchester. Following his victory, von Karajan asked Valery Gergiev to work with him, though soon the young conductor was invited to join the Mariinsky Theatre (then the Leningrad Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre).
Maestro Gergiev’s debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchester took place in June 1993, when he conducted the German ensemble in a performance of works by Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich. Valery Gergiev subsequently presented a further two programmes of Russian symphony music with the famed orchestra – in October 2000 (works by Kancheli, Tchaikovsky, Lyadov, Rachmaninoff, Mosolov and Shostakovich) and in December 2010 (works by Shchedrin, Rachmaninoff and Musorgsky).
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