The upcoming project, which will take place over the New Year 2024/25 and culminate in a concert on January 5, 2025, at the Berlin Philharmonic, is themed “Goethe and Shakespeare.”
The first part of the concert program, dedicated to Goethe, centres on the performance of songs by Goethe composed by the eccentric Danish late Romanticist Rued Langgaard (in an orchestral arrangement by Andreas Peer Kähler, commissioned by the German-Nordic Youth Philharmonic in 2024). In addition, Langgaard’s brief but highly intense 11th Symphony (“Ixion”) from 1944/45 will open the concert, allowing the audience to discover a rarely performed but fascinating outsider of Nordic music. Paul Dukas’ world-famous “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” will conclude the Goethe section of the concert program.
The second part is dedicated to William Shakespeare and features excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev’s famous Romeo and Juliet orchestral suites.
A surprise piece will be performed as a unique feature of the concert program. The identity of this piece and its thematic connection to the other works in the program will only be revealed live at the concert.
As part of the 49th German-Nordic Orchestra Week, several concerts will take place, including a moderated “experience concert” (where the audience sits within the orchestra and is introduced to Rued Langgaard and his compositions) and a family concert. The latter is in proven collaboration with the Chamber Orchestra Unter den Linden, part of its popular family concert series Animals, Tango, and Trumpets, on Saturday, January 4, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. in the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonic.
The project’s highlight is the FESTKONZERT at the PHILHARMONIC on Sunday, January 5, 2025.
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