Enjoy musical highlights with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin! Be inspired by concerts and recordings with the ensemble, as well as outstanding soloists and choirs.
Emilie Mayer
Symphony No. 3 in C major “Militaire” (Excerpt)
Discover the work of Emilie Mayer with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin!
A FESTIVAL FOR EMILIE MAYER Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Bernhard Forck, Concertmaster and Direction In autumn 2025, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin presented a survey of Emilie Mayer’s music unprecedented in scope: all of Mayer’s surviving orchestral works, newly transcribed from the composer’s manuscripts, could be heard in historically informed performances over the course of three concerts at the Pierre Boulez Saal. The title of a recently published biography hails her as “Europe’s greatest female composer”: Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) made her home in Berlin for many years and had her works performed at the Schauspielhaus on Gendarmenmarkt (today Berlin’s Konzerthaus), yet fell into oblivion shortly after her death. While her songs and chamber music have been performed more frequently over the last few years, the rediscovery of her symphonic works is only just beginning. Live recordings of our concert cycle will be released on @harmoniamundi. For further information about our concert cycle dedicated to Emilie Mayer please see Pierre Boulez Saal’s web page: https://www.boulezsaal.de/de/akamus-e…
The festivals was supported by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin and the Freunde und Förderer der Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
J. S. Bach
Double Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Recording from 7 December 2025, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
J. S. Bach
Christmas Oratorio
Recording from 7 December 2023, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
J. S. Bach
St Matthew Passion
Live recording from the Bach Festival Leipzig, St Thomas Church Leipzig, 27 June 2022
G. Ph. Telemann
Concerto in A major, TWV 51:A4 (“Die Relinge”, Allegro)
G. Ph. Telemann
Concerto in A minor, TWV 51:a1 (Presto)
A. Corelli
Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6 No. 8 (“fatto per la Notte di Natale”)
Recording from 7 December 2025, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
A. Vivaldi
Concerto in E major, RV 270 (‘Il riposo, concerto per il Santissimo Natale’)
Recording from 7 December 2025, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
P. A. Locatelli
Concerto grosso F minor, op. 1, No. 8
Recording from 7 December 2025, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
A. Lotti
Dixit Dominus
Recording from 20 June 2025, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
A. Vivaldi
Magnificat
Recording from 20 June 2025, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
A. Vivaldi
In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626 (Allegro)
J. S. Bach
Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 42 (“Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats”)
Recording from 1 March 2019, MüPa Budapest
G. F. Händel
Wassermusik / Water Music, HWV 348-350
Recording from 10 January 2016. Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam