Pablo Heras-Casado makes debut at Berlin Philharmonic

Oct 6, 2011

Pablo Heras-Casado gives his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic on 20 October 2011. In three concerts on 20, 21 and 22 October he will conduct Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Third Symphony as well as Szymanowski‘s Symphony No. 4 and “Quatre dédicaces for orchestra” by Berio.

Pablo Heras-Casado says about the programme:

“There is something really exciting about putting together in one concert programme masterpieces which, although written by several of our greatest composers, are to some extent still unfamiliar to concert audiences.     International influences are a thread running through all of these works.  In Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony and his Hebrides Overture, the composer conveys both an emotional and visual image of times and places which have inspired him – but maintains the integrity of his own musical voice throughout, without recourse to e.g. folk music or historical quotations. And while Berio dedicates each of his four pieces to a great orchestra in different corners of the world, he keeps solidly consistent in his style  in this collection of pieces which never pretended to be a  cycle – yet which interplay and combine perfectly.”

The concerts will be streamed live by the Digital Concert Hall. The Digital Concert Hall is the virtual concert venue of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the Internet.