For over a decade, Berlin’s annual Musikfest has managed to attract top international artists wrapping up their tours of the summer festival circuit, while simultaneously signalling the beginning of the regular season for most of the city’s orchestras. But in addition to the high quality of its musicians, the festival is also notable for the overlapping thematic strands that give a sense of continuity to its diverse concert programmes. In the course of the next three weeks, Berlin audiences will have a chance to hear many of Beethoven’s late string quartets and Mahler’s late symphonies, plus three different musical interpretations of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande and numerous works by Carl Nielsen.
This year’s most-represented composer however will be Arnold Schönberg, and it was with an all-Schönberg programme that the festival…
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