Berlin’s annual Musikfest – a three week celebration of orchestral and chamber music organised around a central theme – is one of the surest signs that a new season has arrived. Over the course of some twenty concerts, audiences are given the opportunity to hear all of the major Berlin orchestras, in addition to an enviable selection of top soloists, ensembles and orchestras from around the world. If Musikfest is neither as long nor as wide-ranging as, for instance, the Proms or Salzburg, it more than earns its place in the pantheon of great European festivals by virtue of its high-calibre artists and its consistently inventive programming. It is the sort of festival where each night not only offers the promise of peerless musicianship, but also of new discovery; you may go to hear a piece of music you like, but you will almost certainly…
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