The orchestra – at the Proms this week – is hailed as among the best in the world, if not the best. For my money, that’s quite possibly right, but why?

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Elgar's Enigma Variations and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. Presented by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - Artistic Director of the Berlin Philharmonic, Andrea Zietzschmann is pictured after the Orchestra's press conference ...

On Monday, the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic gathered at the Jesus Christus Kirche, in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, to pick a new chief conductor. Unlike most ensembles of its kind, the ...

Update from the Berlin Philharmonic below (The last sentence, presumably, means: Yelling, but no fist-fights) and at this link: Voting for Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker Brings No ...

Radio Berlin-Brandenburg reports that the Berlin Philharmonic has elected Kirill Petrenko as their new music director and successor to Simon Rattle. An inquiry by that station was neither confirmed ...

Perhaps you’ll take it as an admission of naiveté if I begin this review with a confession: Until this week, I’ve never heard the Berlin Philharmonic live. And yet. I couldn’t possibly begin an ...

For 60 years the role of the renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during the period of Nazi power has remained in obscurity. In Hitler’s Third Reich the orchestra was known as the “Reichsorchester” ...