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Wiener Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Richard Strauss 1864 - 1949 Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony) op. 64 Salzburg, Grosses Festspielhaus, 24 August 2024

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko (conductor) Orfeó Català Louise Alder (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Linard Vrielink (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass-baritone) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 Valentin Silvestrov (born in 1937) Prayer for Ukraine for mixed a cappella choir Toru Takemitsu (1930 – 1996) Requiem for strings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Exsultate, jubilate K. 165 Ave verum corpus K. 618 Mass in C major, K. 317 ‘Coronation’ Barcelona, Sagrada Familia, 1 May 2023

Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsopernchor, Pierre Boulez (conductor) Diana Damrau (soprano) Petra Lang (alto) Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911 Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’ Directed by Michael Beyer Berlin, Philharmonie, 26 March 2005

Electronic Vibrations - A sound changes the world Whether techno or hip-hop – electronic music is nowadays the driving force of pop culture. We have almost forgotten that its origins lie in the WDR’s electronic studio, which made Cologne to one of the centres of the avant-garde during the post-war years. This is the story of how a room full of strange devices would become a cabinet of curiosities, the vibrations of which sent the whole world in a state of ecstasy. From the beginnings directly after the Second World War in Paris with Pierre Schaeffer’s ‘musique concrète’, the film focuses on Stockhausen and goes on to Kraftwerk, from Jean-Michel Jarre and the IRCAM studio right up to Detroit to the beginnings of techno. Directed by Thomas von Steinaecker

Die Walküre First day of ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) Libretto by de Richard Wagner Munich, Königliches Hof- und National Theater, 26 June 1870 Philharmonia Zürich Gianandrea Noseda (Direction) Andreas Homoki (Stage direction) Christian Schmidt (Set and Costume Design), Franck Evin (Lighting design) Eric Cutler (Siegmund) Christof Fischesser (Hunding) Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan) Daniela Köhler (Sieglinde) Claudia Mahnke (Fricka) Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) Sarah Cambidge (Helmwige) Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk (Gerhilde) Barbara Senator (Ortlinde) Anna Werle (Waltraute) Simone McIntosh (Siegrune) Siena Licht Miller (Rossweisse) Michal Doron (Grimgerde) Noa Beinart (Schwertleite) Zurich, Opernhaus, 20 May 2024