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- John Williams conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker for the very first time; music includes "Olympic Fanfare and Theme."
- Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle was one of the outstanding events of the 2013/2014 season. As before with the St Matthew Passion, star director Peter Sellars succeeded in creating a staging which made the spiritual and dramatic content of the Passion story even more intensive. The soloists, choir and orchestra musicians all interact with each other in a creative as well as compelling way to reveal the many psychological layers of the Passion story. The New York Times praised the "brilliant and energetic" playing of the orchestra, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the "haunting, almost unsurpassable singing of all those involved". Heading a top-class ensemble of soloists was Mark Padmore as the Evangelist.
- Sir Simon Rattle was in no doubt: the performance of the St Matthew Passion which he realised together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2010 was for him "the single most important thing we ever did here". Critics around the world agreed. They praised the outstanding musical interpretation of the soloists, choir and orchestra and the semi-staged production by director Peter Sellars. But although he brings powerful images to the stage, dramatic effects are by no means the focus. "It's not theatre," according to Sellars, "it's a prayer, a meditation." Making this tangible is the real aim of this haunting performance.