Staatskapelle Berlin

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (2014)

"Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim's speeds…. The flexibility of Barenboim's tempi meant that Bruckner's charm – an often overlooked aspect of his genius – shone through, especially in ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2014)

In Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousness and profound solemnity, a music which speaks of grief and lamentation, but also of their transcendence. With its monumental architecture and intensity of ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 (2014)

Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony was written between 1879 and 1881: a very happy time in his life. Unlike most of Bruckner's symphonies, the 6th was not revised. Of all his works, this one seems to come from a single source of inspiration. Bruckner himself ca ...

Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert (2013)

With family and friends present, Daniel Barenboim celebrates his seventieth birthday in the company of Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He starts with Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor (No. 3) and ends with Tchaikovsky's Piano No. 1 with an E ...

Chopin: The Chopin Piano Concertos (2011)

Liszt Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim / Pierre Boulez - Staatskapelle Berlin (2011)

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2011)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in concert in Berlin, Vienna, and New York. Also included is a 22 minute documentary on the musical world of Mahler as seen by Barenboim and Pierre Boulez. ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (2010)

The Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up this highly acclaimed performance of Bruckner's monumental Fifth Symphony by saying: Both Bruckners belief in God, as it majestically wells up out of the chorale of the Fifth, and his deeply tragic world view, collide wit ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2010)

Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers works: This time he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckners mature symphonies. Der Tagesspiegel described Barenboim's performance of the works wi ...

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (2010)

With nearly 450 years of tradition, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Daniel Barenboim has served as its music director since 1992, and in 2000 the orchestra appointed him Chief Conductor for Life. Having already perfor ...

The Gambler (2009)

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. ...

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection (2007)

In 2005, the Staatsoper Berlin and its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin under musical director Daniel Barenboim, celebrated a series of events to celebrate the 80th birthday of French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez. Artistically associated for dec ...

Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5 (2007)

If Daniel Barenboim is not the world's greatest living classical musician he is certainly the most versatile. In a career spanning more than 50 years, his name is attached to many of the celebrated recordings of opera, symphony, small ensemble and piano so ...

The Damnation of Faust (1999)

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing at a level of intensity that would swamp anything less; the climactic seduction trio has rarely been sung so wel ...

Parsifal (2016)

Wagner's mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Wagner's last opera, Parsifal is a medieval epic story marked by Christian, Buddhist and esoteric references. It is about redemp ...

Massenet: Manon (2007)

Massenet's opera centres on its charming but contrary heroine, the vivacious young Manon who longs for luxury and excitement. We first encounter her en route to a convent, where her family are sending her to be educated. Along the way, she falls in love w ...

Carmen (2006)

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Domashenko in the title role, the virtuoso cast joins forces with the celebrated Staatskapelle Berlin und ...

Otello (2001)

One of the chief pleasures of this live production of Otello from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden is Daniel Barenboim's conducting. From the opening gale-force blast of storm music, through the crunching and stabbing accompaniment of Iago's "Credo" ...