Win tickets for Musikfest Berlin
Everyone knows that Berlin is the capital of electronic music. But only few people are aware of the fact that it is also the capital of classical music. The city has three opera houses, two major concert halls and seven big symphony orchestras. Additionally, there are numerous smaller ensembles located here. There are many musicians living here, and Berlin is also home to the two biggest record companies in classical music. After all, you won’t find this kind of diversity in Paris, London, New York or Tokyo.
Berlin has also several festivals for classical music. The most important one is the Musikfest Berlin, which starts on 31 August at the Philharmonie. This year, the festival will be opened by the the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Get more information and take your chance to win 2 tickets for the concert after the jump.
Photo: Deniz Saylan
The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is an extraordinary orchestra. Although their office is located in Berlin, they only play here very rarely here. The reason why: It is an touring orchestra, playing all over the world and being on the move more than 200 days each year. On their international tours to Europe and beyond, they are celebrated not only by their audiences, but also by the critics: In 2008, the French newspaper Le Monde called the Mahler Chamber Orchestra “the best orchestra in the world”.
Now they are playing the opening concert of the Musikfest Berlin. The concert on 31 August features an programme with works by Charles Ives and will be conducted by Kent Nagano. We are raffling two tickets for this concert. To win, please send us a comment and tell us who your favourite composer is. The raffle will end on Wednesday, 29 August.
by Jens
on August 24th, 2012
in Music
44 Comments »
August 24th, 2012 at 16:36h
Claude Debussy
August 24th, 2012 at 16:38h
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski!
August 24th, 2012 at 16:47h
Mahler is definitely my favourite composer!
August 24th, 2012 at 16:48h
Edvard Grieg
August 24th, 2012 at 16:51h
Without music like will be a mistake.
Tschaikowski is one of my favorite.I would like to win those tickets,but I can’t say that I prefer only one,each of them give me something.
August 24th, 2012 at 16:52h
Stravinskij and Chopin. Can’t choose.
August 24th, 2012 at 16:55h
Antonín Dvořák
August 24th, 2012 at 16:57h
Dmitri Shostakovich
August 24th, 2012 at 17:00h
Charles Ives.
August 24th, 2012 at 17:30h
Dmitri Shostakovich
August 24th, 2012 at 17:35h
yann tiersen!
August 24th, 2012 at 17:37h
Stravinsky
August 24th, 2012 at 17:41h
pärt
August 24th, 2012 at 17:46h
Richie Wagner
August 24th, 2012 at 18:34h
Anton Bruckner
Gustav Mahler
August 24th, 2012 at 18:45h
Claude Debussy!!!:)
August 24th, 2012 at 18:53h
Dvorak
I actually also do not like to make a decision for one single composer, each one of the great composers creates important communication with facettes of Existence, which are brought to Evidence by Sound and Listening.
I did not find the Information how to take place in this lottery- is this it ?
August 24th, 2012 at 19:13h
Bedřich Smetana
August 24th, 2012 at 19:20h
Sergej Rachmaninov
August 24th, 2012 at 20:11h
Debussy
But I love Ives as well, and given it’s not so common to hear his stuff performed here in Berlin this would be a sweeeeeeet gift
August 24th, 2012 at 22:44h
Philip Glass & Chopin ♥
August 24th, 2012 at 22:53h
Chopin.
August 24th, 2012 at 23:29h
John Rutter!
August 25th, 2012 at 07:57h
Johann Sebastian BACH! How could one not wake up each morning & wonder what kind of “air” inspired that amazing musical composition! Still gives me ear-gasms every time I give the tune a listen! <3
August 25th, 2012 at 08:45h
Wondering why everybody is writing in English here
: He was already mentioned, but he’s my permanent favourite, too: Johann Sebastian Bach. Gustav Mahler ist great as well, and it’s not too long ago that I got to know Charles Ives – adorable (the more astonishing that in “real life” he was in the life insurance business!)! I always love discovering other geniuses besides the ones I already know!
August 25th, 2012 at 10:20h
SATIE
August 25th, 2012 at 14:11h
rachmaninoff
August 25th, 2012 at 15:34h
Franz Liszt!
August 25th, 2012 at 18:04h
Chopin
August 26th, 2012 at 08:03h
Fanny Hensel
August 26th, 2012 at 08:40h
John Cage, 4’33″
August 26th, 2012 at 10:46h
Ich glaube, ich bin evtl. zu langweilig mit meinem Geschmack, aber mein Favorit heißt Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
August 26th, 2012 at 11:13h
Stravinsky!
August 26th, 2012 at 22:14h
Beethoven …
August 27th, 2012 at 09:36h
Bach! The father of all musics!!!
August 27th, 2012 at 13:45h
Johann Sebastian Bach
August 27th, 2012 at 14:38h
Dimitri Schostakowitch
August 27th, 2012 at 16:07h
Not that I want to chose the easiest and cheesy answer, but Mozart still rocks.
August 27th, 2012 at 21:38h
The answer depends a lot on my mood, today I would say it’s Franz Schubert, tomorrow it might be Ravel, and most definitely on Friday it will be Charles Ives
August 28th, 2012 at 16:26h
Glass, Bach and Satie.
August 28th, 2012 at 21:24h
Smetana.
August 28th, 2012 at 21:37h
Used to say I like Chopin Love me now and again …
August 30th, 2012 at 18:59h
Has the winner been informed already?
August 31st, 2012 at 09:11h
Yes, the winner has been informed!