Weekly overview
26 Dec – 1 Jan
New Year’s Eve Concert with Berliner Philharmoniker
Can classical music be humorous? Absolutely! The Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko will demonstrate this at the 2026 New Year’s Eve Concert: in his sparkling Symphonie classique, Sergei Prokofiev parodies the music of Haydn and Mozart. Dmitri Shostakovich also had the First Viennese School in mind when he wrote his witty Double Concerto for Piano and Trumpet. In this performance, pianist Alexander Malofeev, born in 2001, makes his debut alongside principal trumpeter David Guerrier. Kirill Petrenko also sets off a fireworks display of mischief with Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.
Berliner Philharmoniker – Silvesterkonzert 2024
"He has it all and more—tenderness, but also a dark intensity. I've never heard anything like it," Martha Argerich marveled about Daniil Trifonov. At the 2024 New Year’s Eve concert, the star pianist will perform Johannes Brahms’s technically demanding Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko. The program also features magnificently orchestrated dance pieces by Richard Strauss: charming waltzes from *Der Rosenkavalier* as well as *Salome’s Dance* with its uninhibited sensuality.
WithBerliner Philharmoniker
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