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RIAS Chamber Choir
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Musikfest Berlin
In their concert, the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and the Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš combine Palestrina’s masterpiece “Missa Papae Marcelli” with works by Arvo Pärt. The round-number birthdays of both composers are both being celebrated this year. The first composer was born 500 years ago, although it is understandable after such a long space of time that we no longer know on which precise date we should be celebrating the birth of the Italian Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It is a different story with the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt who will be turning 90 on the very date of this concert. The Estonian composer communicates spiritual messages through extreme reduction and simplicity, while Palestrina, following the style of his period, pursues a highly ornate form of polyphony. Both hit exactly one thing: the pulse of their audiences.
Program and cast
RIAS Kammerchor
Kaspars Putniņš, conductor
Programme
Arvo Pärt
Solfeggio formixed choir a cappella
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli for six-piece choir a cappella
Arvo Pärt
“Nunc dimittis” for mixed choir a cappella
Arvo Pärt
Magnificat for mixed choir a cappella
Arvo Pärt
Dopo la vittoria for mixed choir a cappella
Arvo Pärt
The Woman with the Alabaster Box for mixed choir a cappella
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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