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Berlin Philharmonic plays the Kimmel
In another event, Christoph Eschenbach performs
By TOM DI NARDO
For the Daily News

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.

Sir Simon Rattle brings his renowned Berlin Philharmonic to Philly - incredibly, it's the orchestra's first visit since 1955.

Rattle delights in brilliant programming when he guests with the Philadelphia Orchestra (he'll lead three weeks here beginning Jan. 22), and he takes the same approach in Sunday's program with the Berliners.

He's beginning with Bartok's electrifying Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, one of the moodiest and most nocturnal works in the catalog. The superb British violinist Tasmin Little will solo in the intense, five-movement Violin Concerto by the enigmatic, Hungarian-born Gyorgi Ligeti. Rattle will follow these works with Beethoven's joyous "Pastoral" Symphony, his No. 6 (2 p.m. Sunday, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce streets, $10-$84.50, 215-893-1999).

Talk about tough choices: An hour later, our own music director Christoph Eschenbach will perform a mere 100 feet away. He's appearing as a chamber player while on tour with his Orchestre de Paris, at the keyboard with members of the Philadelphia as well as the French orchestras.

The musicians from both ensembles will team up for Tobias Picker's "The Blue Hula," French composer Marc-Andre Dalbavie's "Tactus" and Schubert's Wind Octet, D.803 (3 p.m. Sunday, Kimmel Center, Perelman Theater, $15-$28, 215-893-1999).

Later on, the Kimmel will host another offering that hasn't been in Philly since the 1950s - Berlioz's colossal Requiem. It'll be presented in a joint venture by our own Philadelphia Singers, the Rutgers University Glee Club and the Mannes Orchestra from New York.

Give the Singers' enterprising director, David Hayes, major credit for assembling this bursting package of reverence. It requires four brass bands, orchestra and timpani, plus a mighty effort to coordinate the work's otherworldly spirituality and power. Though the full force of 300 musicians is only called on in three of the 10 movements, the unique work is best described by Schumann: "It beats everything" (7:30 p.m. Sunday, Verizon Hall, $27-$57, 215-893-1999).

An unusual combination - African-American spirituals and the eerie sound palette of local composer George Crumb - make up the Orchestra 2001 bill this weekend. Joined by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Show Choir from Washington, D.C., and soprano Barbara Ann Martin, the ensemble led by James Freeman will follow the spirituals with the world premiere of Crumb's "A Journey Beyond Time," inspired by those same spirituals (8 p.m. tomorrow, Trinity Center, 2212 Spruce St., $30, 215-922-2190; also 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Swarthmore College's Lang Concert Hall, free, 215-922-2190).

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society has a full plate this week, with four programs in five days. The marathon begins tonight with lieder interpreter Stephan Genz in Schumann's "Dichterliebe" and songs by Wolf. On Tuesday, exciting pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs sonatas and other pieces by Chopin and Scriabin (both at 8 p.m., Perelman Theater, $23, 215-569-8080).

Sunday, Musicians from Marlboro will offer a Mozart Piano Trio, the Violin/Cello Sonata by Ravel and Schumann's Piano Quintet (3 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, 13th and Cherry streets, $20, 215-569-8080).

Monday, the Guarneri String Quartet plays quartets by Beethoven (Op. 18/3) and Schumann (Op. 41/3), then invites pianist Lydia Artimiw to join them in the Shostakovich Piano Quintet ( 8 p.m., Pennsylvania Convention Center, $20).

The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, led by Daniel Spalding, performs a suite from John Corigliano's film score "The Red Violin" - a week before the Philadelphia Orchestra plays a full concerto fashioned from the same score. Violinist Ruotao Mao is the soloist. Also on the program: the Vivaldi F Major Concerto for Three Violins and tasty morsels by Marais, Bach/Stokowski, Wieniawski, Massenet and Paganini (2 p.m. Sunday, First Presbyterian Church, 21st and Walnut streets, $20, 866-403-6844).

Since 1971, the Philadelphia Trio has been playing through the vast chamber repertoire. This Sunday's bill: works by Haydn (H.15:30), Schumann (Op. 88) and the beloved Beethoven "Archduke" Trio (3 p.m., Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon, $11-$15, 610-566-1235).

Highly regarded young cellist Mark Kosower and pianist Jee-Won Oh perform sonatas by Locatelli and Ginastera, an arrangement of Schumann's "Fantasiestucke" and the Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello by Kodaly (3 p.m. Sunday, Trinity Center, $15, 215-735-6999).

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