Livestream on 3 July, 7.30 pm / With Kent Nagano at the Kissinger Sommer

With its Conductor Laureate Kent Nagano and the pianist Nikolai Lugansky, the DSO is a guest at the Kissinger Sommer for the end of its concert season. The programme includes Franz Schubert's Fifth Symphony and the Second Piano Concerto by Johannes Brahms.
The Kissinger Sommer will broadcast the concert in a livestream, which you can also follow here on the DSO Player from 7.30 pm on 3 July. The concert will also be available afterwards as video-on-demand.
The latest video / Film Concert on demand
The film concert by rbbKultur and radioeins with the DSO conducted by Christian Schumann from 29 May 2022 can be watched again here as a video-on-demand. The programme includes film scores by John Williams ('Star Wars') and Klaus Badelt ('Pirates of the Carribean'), excerpts from 'Vertigo' by Bernard Herrmann and 'La Strada' by Nino Rota, but above all with music from the Golden Age of Hollywood: by Max Steiner, Franz Waxman and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the forefather of classical film music. The evening was hosted by film critic Knut Elstermann.
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Audio / Radio Concerts on demand

AUDIO / 1.6. / Debüt im Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Cocnert on demand on Deutschlandfunk Kultur with conductor Felix Mildenberger, oboist Mariano Esteban Barco and violinist Timothy Chooi, playing Mozart’s ›Figaro‹ ouverture and the C major oboe concerto, Sibelius’ violin concerto and Poulenc’s ballet suite ›Les biches‹.
AUDIO / 22.5. / Sir George Benjamin and Cédric Tiberghien
Concert on demand on Deutschlandfunk with conductor Sir George Benjamin and pianist Cédric Tiberghien. On the programme: Ligeti’s ›Lontano‹, ›The Sorcerer's Apprentice‹ by Dukas, Janáček’s Sinfonietta and tow pieces for piano and orchestra: Messiaen’s ›Oiseaux exotiques‹ and Benjamin’s ›Duet‹.
AUDIO / 11.5. / Tugan Sokhiev and Victor Julien-Laferrière
Concert on demand on Deutschlandfunk Kultur with DSO’s former Music Director Tugan Sokhiev and cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière who stood in for Truls Mørk. On the programme: Tchaikovsky’s ›Francesca da Rimini‹, Shostakovich’s ninth symphony and Saint-Saëns’ first cello concerto.
VIDEO / Concerts on demand

VIDEO / Händel's ›Messiah‹ with Robin Ticciati from the Philharmonie
With the staged setting of Handel's oratorio 'The Messiah', the DSO once again presents a highlight of its 2018/2019 season, featuring Louise Alder, Magdalena Kožená, Tim Mead, Allan Clayton and Florian Boesch, as well as the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, conducted by Robin Ticciati AG. ➜ Interviews / Read more
VIDEO / 22.5. / Trikestra: Performance #planet_rotation
#planet_rotation – Video stream with a sound performance on Holsts ›The Planets‹ with music by de Aguila, Aller, Carlson, Pärt, Pinnock and Schönberg.
VIDEO / 21.11. / Ticciati with excerpts from ›Götterdämmerung‹ and more
Video-on-demand of a concert with Robin Ticciati, the DSO and instrumental excerpts from Wagner’s ›Götterdämmerung‹ as well as music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Klaus Lang.
VIDEO / 7.11. / Sir Simon Rattle and Robin Ticciati from Berlin's Philharmonie
The DSO welcomed back Sir Simon Rattle to its rostrum on November 7, 2020. The Briton conducted Gustav Mahler's ›Das Lied von der Erde‹ in a chamber music version.
VIDEO / Roderick Cox and Julia Bullock at Haus des Rundfunks
In their multi-faceted programme with the DSO, US conductor Roderick Cox and soprano Julia Bullock show the many faces of music and its creators who are connected to their homeland.
VIDEO / 9.4. / Trikestra: #beethoven_rotation
TRIKESTRA, a cooperation of musicians from junge norddeutsche philharmonie, STEGREIF.orchester and the DSO, presented #beethoven_rotation as an interactive 360° video.
VIDEO / Tugan Sokhiev / ›A Flight through the Orchestra‹
Brahms' second symphony at Rummelsburg power station: In this spectacular concert film by Henning Kasten the camera flies through the DSO in one single shot.Solidarity Concert for Ukraine, 15 March 2022
Musicians: Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Kirill Gerstein (piano), François Leleux (oboe), Alan Gilbert (conductor), Max Raabe (singer), Ian Wekwerth (piano) and the Rundfunkchor Berlin conducted by Gijs Leenaars. More about the programme ...
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The concert is also available on ARTE Concert until June 15.
VIDEO / Music Film Productions

›An Alpine Smphony‹
This ambitious production presents the eponymous tone poem by Richard Strauss as a musical guided tour of the mountains with Reinhold Messner. Existential stories by the mountaineering legend enter into a cinematic dialogue with impressive concert footage shot in a 360-degree set-up of the imposing orchestra around Robin Ticciati at the Tempodrom in Berlin.Watch the film

›In Exile – of Gods and Men‹
Last autumn, DSO's three-part concert film was made with Music Director Robin Ticciati in the Friedrichswerder Church, in nature and at Club Sisyphos. The Sounding Images production was directed by Frederic Wake-Walker. All three parts are now available again on the DSO PLAYER.Watch the films

›Struggle with the Devil‹
Director Frederic Wake-Walker and visual artist Ergo Phizmiz bring the one-act operas 'Sancta Susanna' by Paul Hindemith and 'Slzy Nože' (The Tears of the Knife) by Bohuslav Martinů and the contemporary orchestral work 'Sinuous Voices' by Ondřej Adámek to expressionist life ...Watch the film
Audio / DSO Podcasts
›Berlin needs Music!‹ – DSO's first Podcast
Update 2.9.: Episode 5 now online
On 18 March 2021, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin launched its first podcast with five episodes entitled "Berlin needs music!", dealing with the many positive effects of practical and receptive engagement with music for body, mind and society. Presenter Julia Kaiser talks to music physician and physiologist Eckart Altenmüller (episodes 1–4) as well as musicologist Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (episode 5). [in German].
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#rotations – A Podcast by and about TRIKESTRA
In TRIKESTRA's first podcast, the junge norddeutsche philharmonie, the STEGREIF.orchester and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin explore the "Sound of the Universe". Within three episodes they explore the universe, music and all the infinite, mystical or magical that lies in between. Juri De Marco, artistic director and horn player of the STEGREIF.orchester, is the host and talks to numerous wonderful guests. They embark on a journey into the infinite cosmos, fathom new dimensions of TRIKESTRA and take a look into the future sky of classical music.
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Video / Composers in Focus
What does it mean to compose in this day and age? How does technological progress influence the creative process and the creation of music? And what is the relationship between composers and their audience? The DSO explores these and many other questions in its new video format 'Composers in Focus' by talking to several contemporary composers. The first episodes will be released every Tuesday starting 27 July.

Episode #1: Ondřej Adámek
Adámek's musical language draws inspiration from elements of numerous cultures thus creating unusual musical narratives ...