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Collegium Vocale Gent
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Musikfest Berlin
The beginning and end of the French Revolution are symbolically reflected in the concert program of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées: Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor was dedicated to Louis XVI, the last king of the Ancien Régime, who was ultimately sentenced to death during the Revolution. Ludwig van Beethoven originally dedicated his Third Symphony Eroica to General Napoleon Bonaparte but later withdrew the dedication after Napoleon crowned himself emperor. The conductor is Philippe Herreweghe, artistic director of the Parisian period-instrument orchestra and one of the leading figures in historical performance practice. For the Cherubini Requiem, he is also joined by the singers of Collegium Vocale Gent, which he founded.
Program and cast
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Maria van Nieukerken, chorus master
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 55 “Eroica”
Interval
Luigi Cherubini
Requiem in C minor
Collegium Vocale Gent, Maria van Nieukerken, chorus master
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building is acclaimed for both its acoustics and its architecture.
The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall, an area that for decades suffered from isolation and drabness but that today offers ideal centrality, greenness, and accessibility. Its cross street and postal address is Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The neighborhood, often dubbed the Kulturforum, can be reached on foot from the Potsdamer Platz station.
Actually a two-venue facility with connecting lobby, the Philharmonie comprises a Großer Saal of 2,440 seats for orchestral concerts and a chamber-music hall, the Kammermusiksaal, of 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller venue was added only in the 1980s.
By subway (U-Bahn):
Lines U2 (Bahnhöfe Potsdamer Platz or MendelssohnBartholdy-Park)
By city train (S-Bahn):
Lines S1, S2, S25 (Potsdamer Platz)
By regional train:
Lines RE3, RE4, RE5 (Potsdamer Platz)
By bus directly to the Philharmonie:
Lines 200 (Philharmonie), M48, M85 (Kulturforum or Varian-Fry-Straße),
Further bus lines: M29 (Potsdamer Brücke), M41 (Potsdamer Platz)
By car:
A limited number of parking spaces are available on the Philharmonie property. Please use the parking garages under the Sony Center and under the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden (Entrance at Reichpietschufer).
By bycicle:
A limited number of bycicle stands are available on front and behind the Philharmonie. Additional stands can be found in front of the State Library (Staatsbibliothek) across the street.
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