The world’s most famous orchestra will be assembling in the museum’s large nave for its “Europa Konzert”, conducted by Daniel Harding and featuring the maestro Bryn Terfel. Daniel Harding, the British conductor well-versed in French and German repertoires, will conduct a programme that is in tune with collections displayed in the Musée d’Orsay and that illustrates dialogue between France and Germany, the cement underpinning harmony in Europe.
Spectators will be carried from Berlioz’s mythological sagas and rousing romances under a Mediterranean sun to Wagner’s mystical compositions and Nordic magic, rendered by the masterly Bryn Terfel.
As regards Debussy, this classical genius swayed by the mists of impressionism never lacked German admirers, which was perhaps the best-hidden source of pride of this harbinger of a very French art.
The orchestra would like to thank the Friends of the Berliner Philharmoniker for their generous support for the European concert 2019.