Berliner Philharmoniker II

Three Viennese composers, two immigrants and one native-born: with music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Schoenberg, the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrates the cultural tradition of the Austrian capital – and another adopted Viennese, Joseph Haydn, will also be “calling in.” Kirill Petrenko has assembled a program that places the “conservative revolutionary” (Schoenberg on Brahms) between the avant-gardists Beethoven and Schoenberg while at the same time paying tribute to the Berliner Philharmoniker’s great Beethoven tradition. A mere inkling of this tradition is suggested by the names of such conductors as Furtwängler, Karajan, Abbado, and Rattle, and it is now impressively carried on by Petrenko.