Alan Gilbert's conducting scores triumph in Return to Berlin
Performance Lives on in the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall Gilbert’s Next Performances, Back with NY Phil, Will Include Martinu’s Fourth Symphony, Mahler’s First Symphony, and World Premiere of Peter Lieberson’s The World in Flower When Alan Gilbert made an unscheduled debut conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006 (replacing the indisposed Bernard Haitink at short notice) few people would have imagined that his next appearance before Berlin’s greatest symphony orchestra would be as Music Director Designate of the New York Philharmonic. Having welcomed him as a “podium god” the first time around, the press was prepared for his triumphant return to the Philharmonie on April 18. Berlin’s Morgenpost review headline reads: “Martinu Rediscovered in the Philharmonie … Why wander so far afield when the good – the very good – is so close at hand?” The review begins: “The New York Philharmonic made an especially happy selection with Alan Gilbert as its next chief con