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AUDIO / 22.11.25 / Casual Concert with Ingo Metzmacher
Casual Concert on demand, recorded liva at Berliner Phil­harmonie on 21 November: Conductor and host Ingo Metzmacher and the DSO present Charles Ives’ ›New England Holidays‹.
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AUDIO / 21.12.25 / Robin Ticciati
Concert on demand, recorded live at Berliner Phil­harmonie on 21 December with Robin Ticciati and the DSO. Programme: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 in A minor.
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AUDIO / 14.12.25 / Kent Nagano and Steven Isserlis
Concert on demand, recorded live at Berliner Phil­harmonie on 14 December with Conductor Laureate Kent Nagano, Steven Isserlis (Violoncello), Igor Budinstein (Viola) and the DSO. Programme: the world premiere of Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier’s ›Caída lenta‹, Claude Debussy’s ›Ibéria‹ from ›Images‹ and Richard Strauss’ ›Don Quixote‹ for Violoncello, Viola and Orchestra.

 
 


Video on demand / The DSO at Kissinger Sommer 2025

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VIDEO / 11.07. / Meister, Ovcharenko & Müller 
Concert livestream from the Regen­ten­bau in Bad Kissingen on 11 July 2025 (Kissinger Sommer Festival), available as video-on-demand until 10 January 2026: With conductor Cornelius Meister, pianist Illia Ovcharenko, soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and the DSO. Programme: Lili Boulanger’s »D’un matin de printemps«, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major KV 488 and Gustav Mahler’s symphony No. 4 in G major. Begin: 7.30 pm
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VIDEO / 12.07. / François Leleux & Julie Fuchs 
Concert livestream from the Regen­ten­bau in Bad Kissingen on 12 July 2025 (Kissinger Sommer Festival), available as video-on-demand until 11 January 2026: With conductor and oboist François Leleux, soprano Julie Fuchs and the DSO. Programme: Debussy’s »Petite Suite«, arias from Mozart’s operas »The Magic Flute« and »Don Giovanni«, arranged for oboe and orchestra by François Leleux, Mozart’s »Exsultate, jubilate« for soprano and orchestra and Bizet’s symphony No. 1 in C major. Begin: 7.30 pm


VIDEO / Concerts on demand

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VIDEO-ON-DEMAND / 19.04. / Opera Gala ›Rebuild Ukraine‹
April 19th Charity Concert from Konzerthaus Berlin as video-on-demand with Rolando Villazón (Tenor), Pretty Yende (Soprano), Nino Machaidze (Soprano), Stephen Costello (Tenor), Elsa Dreisig (Soprano), Olga Kulchynska (Soprano), Andrii Kymach (Baritone), Samuel Mariño (Male Soprano), Nicole Chirka (Mezzo-soprano), Diana Tishchenko (Violin), Keri-Lynn Wilson (Conductor) UIkraine Freedom Chorus and the DSO. Read more about the concert here.
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VIDEO / Memorial concert for the victims from Babyn Yar
Deutsche Welle broadcast from the official commemoration ceremony from Kiev on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the mass murder of Jews in Babyn Jar in September 1941. Thomas Sanderling conducted Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 with the participation of bass-baritone Albert Dohmen and the gentlemen of the Kiev Municipal Chamber Choir.
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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  
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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.
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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.
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Under its principal conductor Robin Ticciati, the DSO played instrumental excerpts from Wagner's opera 'Götterdämmerung', arranged bei Erich Leinsdorf, preceded by Rachmaninoff's elegiac tone poem 'Die Toteninsel' and 'ionisches Licht' by contemporary composer Klaus Lang on November 21. The concert was also broadcast live from the Berlin Philharmonie and remains available as video on demand here on the DSO Player.
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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.
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The solo parts feature mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and tenor Andrew Staples. Prior to this, DSO's Music Director Robin Ticciati led a dramaturgically and performatively ritualized program with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. The concert without an audience was broadcast live from the Berlin Philharmonie – as a video stream here on the DSO Player as well as on the orchestra's YouTube channel and Facebook page, the recording was also broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
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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.
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The evening began with Copland's patriotic 'Fanfare for the Common Man', followed by George Walker's 'Lyric for Strings' – the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for music in 1996 – Barber's 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915', in which soprano Julia Bullock takes the solo part, Stravinsky's 'Pulcinella Suite' and Antonín Dvořák's string serenade.
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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.
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Originally planned as a concert performance at Vollgutlager, the multimedia study of Beethoven's ›Pastoral symphony‹ was transformed into a digital project and is now available an DSO's website and on social media platforms.
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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.
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It is getting closer than ever before to former music director Tugan Sokhiev and the musicians. Produced by EuroArts Music in collaboration with rbb TV and ARTE.

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.

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›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.

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›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 ...

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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.

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Episode #1: Ondřej Adámek
Adámek's musical language draws inspiration from elements of numerous cultures thus creating unusual musical narratives ...
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The direct energy and finely shaped moments of musical expression correlate with the artful composition of timbres. Born in Prague in 1979, he studied composition at the Academy of Music in Prague and at the Paris Conservatory. He composes for orchestra, chamber and vocal ensembles as well as electroacoustic music. Several of Ondřej Adámeks compositions have been played by the DSO in its concerts. His machine music 'Dusty Rusty Hush' is at the centre of the third part of the concert film 'In Exile – of Gods and Men'.
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Episode #2: Helen Grime
Helen Grime was born in York, England in 1981. After studying at the Royal College of Music in London, she received a Leonard Bernstein Scholarship for the Tanglewood Music Center in 2008.
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Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London in 2016. From 2010 to 2017 she was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for her services to music. In recent years, the DSO has often featured works by the composer and will premiere her 'Meditations on Joy', commissioned by the DSO, in March 2022.

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