Musikfest Berlin: Berliner Philharmoniker I

In the organizer's words:

Missy Mazzoli stretches a tiny moment of the Orpheus saga into a suite, Peter Eötvös' homage to his friend, the Romano-Hungarian-French pianist Györgi (Georges) Cziffra, tells a dramatic European biography as a rhapsody, whose performance at Musikfest Berlin has now in turn become a memorial to the great Hungarian composer and conductor who died so suddenly. The Berliner Philharmoniker, on the other hand, play symphonic maximalism with a major work by Charles Ives: his Fourth Symphony from 1925 collages a century of collective American memory into a piece of musical avant-garde.