Conductor Laureate Kent Nagano.
Photo: Sergio Veranos Studio

The DSO has always maintained a close artistic relationship with its former Music Directors. Kent Nagano, now Honorary Conductor of the orchestra, is a guest twice. After the Sixth this season, he will present Mahler’s Seventh Symphony next season. Later, he interweaves the masterful violin concertos from Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹ in an arrangement by Aziza Sadikova for four different solo instruments with Fanny Hensel’s piano cycle ›The Year‹. Ingo Metzmacher devotes himself to Schubert’s ›Great C major‹ symphony, once in a pure version in a Casual Concert, then in a subscription concert in combination with Olga Neuwirth’s Trumpet Concerto. Tugan Sokhiev finally returns to his Berlin orchestra with Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Bruckner’s ›Romantic‹ Symphony, the Fourth.
 

Marin Alsop. Photo: Adriane White

Numerous conductors who have been associated with the DSO for many years or who have recently proven themselves here are once again conducting the orchestra: Marin Alsop completes the trio of the great Ninths with Dvořák’s Symphony ›From the New World‹. Stéphane Denève strolls through the world of fairy tales and myths between Paul Dukas’ ›The Sorcerer’s Apprentice‹, Lera Auerbach’s Icarus explorations, and Sergei Prokofiev’s ›Cinderella‹ ballet. David Robertson presents Strauss’ tragicomic ›Don Quixote‹ with satirical texts by and with Oliver Kalkofe. And Andris Poga weaves a French programme around Berlioz’ ›Symphonie fantastique‹.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Photo: Marco Borggreve

The subsequent generation is also prominently represented: The »young wild one« Maxim Emelyanychev brings Brahms’ Second, Santtu-Matias Rouvali Shostakovich’s Tenth, high-flyer Tarmo Peltokoski Sibelius’ ›Lemminkäinen‹ Suite, Dalia Stasevska his Fifth, and Ruth Reinhardt Dvořák’s Fifth to the stage of the Philharmonie. As conductor and violin soloist, Pekka Kuusisto leads through the worlds of sound between Haydn, Beethoven, and the female composers of today.
 
Conducting the DSO for the first time will be Václav Luks, who, in addition to Beethoven, will present largely unknown contemporary Jan Václav Voříšek and Parisian Louise Farrenc; Kazuki Yamada with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony; and Aivis Greters, who explores the tension between Bruckner and Wagner; as well as Delyana Lazarova and Adam Hickox, who will appear as part of the ›Debut on Deutschlandfunk Kultur‹ series.
 
And at the rbbKultur children’s concerts, promising newcomers such as Holly Hyun Choe, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, and Christoph Koncz can be experienced for the first time leading the DSO, alongside experienced colleagues Gijs Leenaars and David Robertson. Lee Reynolds organises the popular concerts in the Tempodrom with Circus Roncalli on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

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