Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker, Norbert Bisky

This season, the Karajan-Akademie once again awards the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize to an outstanding young composer. The prize includes the commission of a new work for the Academy, premiered in this concert. Visual artist Norbert Bisky joins the musicians live on stage, creating a new work in response to the music as the performance unfolds. The programme also features Arnold Schoenberg’s expressionist Verklärte Nacht and Mozart’s impassioned Symphony No. 40.

Programme

Arnold Schoenberg
Transfigured Night, op. 4 (version for string orchestra)

Interval

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

as well as a new work by the recipient of the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize