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Sep 08 2025
Debut beim Musikfest Berlin in der Berliner Philharmonie
The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and conductor Anja Bihlmaier embark on a parodistic adventure: Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s sarcastic ballet music focused on Roi Ubu is a colourful potpourri of musical quotations. Shostakovich was expected to compose a victory symphony, but his composition was met with disapproval from the Stalinist regime: “There was no choir, no soloists and no apotheosis – not a trace of adulation for the great hero,” commented the composer. Peter I. Tchaikovsky acknowledges the music of Mozart in his “Rococo Variations” featuring the young dynamic cellist Kian Soltani. The American composer and jazz musician Olly Wilson is inspired by African and Afro-diasporan traditions which are interwoven with his own musical identity in his “Shango Memory”.
link to the concert
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/anja-bihlmaier-und-das-dso-beim-musikfest-berlin-100.html
Interview:
Jul 14 2025
BBC Music Magazine / Hannah Nepilova
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Coming soon
Oct 17 2025
ORQUESTA NACIONALES DE ESPANA
Brahms, Mahler
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid