Off to Italy! If not in person, you can at least escape the grey of Berlin for a while with the Konzerthausorchester, Joana Mallwitz and our former Artist in Residence violist Antoine Tamestit.

Hector Berlioz travelled through Abruzzo. Impressions of this tour and inspiration from Byron's poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" resulted in a stylistically unique symphony in which the solo viola seems to embody the thematically introspective traveller, while the orchestra seems to embody the romantic, roaring world, including a serenade to the lover and the robbers' camp.