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CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Cancelled: Berliner Philharmoniker
Thursday, November 19, 2020
8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Kirill Petrenko by Monika Rittershaus
In one evening, experience early-career and late-career approaches to the symphony. Written at age 15, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 surges with youthful energy, but its poetic slow movement belies the composer’s age. Brahms’s final symphony’s grand architecture is built on the foundation of a series of simple opening motifs that ascend to a stunning final movement: an epic passacaglia (variations over a repeating bass theme) that builds to a cataclysmic climax.
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor
Program
WEBERN Passacaglia, Op. 1
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
The Berliner Philharmoniker Residency at Carnegie Hall is made possible by a leadership gift from Marina Kellen French and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.