Special concert Musik aus fernen Rundfunktagen
In a special concert, the Staatskapelle Berlin and its General Music Director Christian Thielemann devote themselves to an unusual repertoire: the sounds of those decades when people sat eagerly in front of the radio and listened to broadcasts from the airwaves. The special concert Musik aus fernen Rundfunktagen embarks on a journey of discovery into a time when symphonic sonority, jazz elements and dance rhythms were combined in a special way. Great symphonies and instrumental concertos, which otherwise dominate the Staatskapelle's programmes on concert stages in Berlin and around the world, deliberately take a back seat here in favour of music of high artistic quality, intended for the concert hall as well as the salon or dance floor – sophisticated light music at its best.
The programme includes Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Variety Orchestra, Nico Dostal's Spanish Sketches for Orchestra, Ernst Fischer's Ferientage – Suite for Orchestra and Eduard Künneke's Dance Suite for Orchestra and Jazz Band. Together, these works from the 1920s to the 1950s paint a multifaceted picture of an era in which radio, as a new medium, brought musical diversity into living rooms and shaped a new way of listening.
Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Berlin are thus continuing on from the concerts at the turn of the year 2024/25, which already featured music from theatre and film of the interwar period, a repertoire away from the great symphonic cycles with different stylistic characteristics and tonal peculiarities.
The Staatsoper would like to express its sincere gratitude to the friends and patrons of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and its main partners, BMW and the Hilti Foundation, for their support.