Late Night Berliner Philharmoniker

Cathy Milliken
In Play (premiere)

Brett Dean
Imaginary Ballet

Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet in E flat major, op. 47

A late night in the Philharmonie Berlin: Noah Samuel Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Ludwig Quandt, the orchestra’s first principal cellist, come together in the late evening to play a concert with their former colleague Brett Dean (viola) – joined by the world-class pianist Benjamin Hochman whom the New York Times recently described as possessing “stylistic insight, elegance and sparkle”.

After the new work In Play by Cathy Milliken, the musicians perform Dean’s Imaginary Ballet, an energetic suite for piano and string trio consisting of “fast, rhythmic and dancelike movements” (Dean). The evening concludes with Robert Schumann’s Romantic Piano Quartet in E-flat major op. 47.