Kirill Petrenko conducts Zimmermann, Lutosławski and Brahms by Various, Dv. 28 Gen. 2022, De (2022/2022), Director musical Kirill Petrenko, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

Anyone who wants to continue the great tradition of the symphony needs self-confidence and creativity. In this concert, Kirill Petrenko presents two composers who took this risk: the wonderfully virtuosic Symphony No. 1 by Witold Lutosławski; the conclusion is marked by Johannes Brahms' double-faced Second Symphony: a half-sunny, half-dark work that the composer himself described as a "lovely monster." Bernd Alois Zimmermann's soundscape composition Photoptosis from the second half of the 20th century opens the evening.