Music against Death: Joana Mallwitz conducts Nono and Mahler in Berlin

Joana Mallwitz

Sarah Aristidou, Joana Mallwitz and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin

By David Grundy, 16 September 2024

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“Mallwitz’s rigour was refreshing in music that is today played so often as to risk seeming hackneyed”

Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Berlin on 14 September 2024

Nono, Como una ola de fuerza y luz

Mahler, Symphony no. 4 in G major

Sarah Aristidou, Soprano

Tamara Stefanovich, Piano

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Joana Mallwitz, Conductor

Christina Bauer, Sound direction

Earth, wind and fire: Valčuha and Apkalna at the Konzerthaus Berlin

Elena Luporini, 5th July

For the end of the season, Berlin's Konzerthaus unleashes the fury of the elements with a concert featuring Bernd Richard Deutsch's Organ Concerto Okeanos, together with works by Sibelius and Shostakovich.

*****

Batons and broomsticks with Joana Mallwitz in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 22nd February

A folk-centred programme delights Berlin's Konzerthaus under the conducting of Joana Mallwitz – with the special participation of soloist Elisabeth Leonskaja.

****1

The continuation of beautiful friendships in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 14th October

At Berlin's Konzerthaus, Chief Conductor Christoph Eschenbach leads the premiere of Christian Mason's orchestral work An Ocean of Years and reunites with American pianist Tzimon Barto.

****1

Transparent, alert Mozart from Vikingur Ólafsson in Berlin

Zenaida des Aubris, 10th September

Pablo Heras-Casado a programme featuring a classic combination of Mozart and Schumann.

****1

Schubert shines in Berlin: Joana Mallwitz at the Konzerthaus

Roy Westbrook, 28th November

A memorable account of Schubert's "Great" C major symphony, conducted – and analysed – by Joana Mallwitz.

*****

Dvořák’s Spectre’s Bride exhumed in Berlin

Hugo Shirley, 27th October

The orchestral writing proves to be the main point of interest in a rousing performance of Dvořák's rare dramatic cantata.

***11

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David Grundy

David Grundy is a poet and scholar based in London. He is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023).