This concert shows how contrasting musical worlds could be at the beginning of the 20th century. Arnold Schoenberg’s Expressionist monodrama Erwartung, with Tamara Wilson as the soloist, is highly innovative: an overwhelmingly intense, atmospherically evocative portrayal of fear and hope.
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On the other hand, Sergei Rachmaninov’s late Romantic Third Symphony, written in American exile, is characterised by a melancholy look back to the past.
The South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim, music director of San Francisco Opera, makes her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Eun Sun Kim - Conductor
- Tamara Wilson - Soprano
Arnold Schoenberg
Expectation, monodrama in one act op. 17
- Tamara Wilson - Soprano
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 3 in A minor op. 44
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Participating artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Tamara Wilson
Eun Sun Kim
