Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Mediatheque: What's going on here?

Streams, interviews, podcasts: A guide to the Elbphilharmonie's digital programme.

Experience music :Concert streams and exclusive music videos

Live streams from the Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle

Entire concerts from both concert halls: including major orchestral concerts, unusual scenic productions, extraordinary jazz performances and spectacular world music events – there is something for everyone here.

Elbphilharmonie Sessions

For the »Elbphilharmonie Sessions«, artists record exclusive music videos in the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle – often in unusual places. Here, every sound finds its own perfect setting.

Meet the artists

Interviews and Portraits

Extensive video portraits, podcasts and interviews with major artists and composers.

Klaus Mäkelä
Klaus Mäkelä © Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Tube Talks

The journey on the Elbphilharmonie’s futuristic escalator takes around two and a half minutes: a great opportunity for a chat with celebrities visiting the Hanseatic city, stars from the Grand Hall and local Hamburg luminaries – from Tupoka Ogette, Fatih Akin and Niko Backspin to Lena Meyer-Landrut and Tim Bendzko.

All about the Elbphilharmonie

Discover the Elbphilharmonie

Spectacular drone flights, the lowdown on the building’s architecture, fascinating backstage insights and digital tours.

Großer Saal
Großer Saal © Peter Hundert
Elbphilharmonie Orgel
Elbphilharmonie Orgel © Peter Hundert

The enormous Elbphilharmonie organ

15 x 15 meters, 25 tonnes and 4,765 pipes measuring between eleven millimetres and ten meters: discover everything there is to know about the Grand Hall organ – through music videos, background info and digital tours.

music history

Elbphilharmonie Explains

How does a kora sound? Why does the theorbo need two-meter-long strings? And what is Afrofuturism? The »Elbphilharmonie Explains« series presents special instruments, genres, periods and styles – with top instrumentalists and experts.

Maurice Steger
Maurice Steger © Julian Conrad

Subject articles

How do you stage a Christian mass in a concert hall? How old is Early Music? When was the synthesizer invented? And what are the key features of Sufi music culture? Background articles on various aspects of music history and its most important figures.

Digitales Escape Game

Just a few hours to go until the concert of the year – but then suddenly it all goes wrong. Become a member of the Elbphilharmonie team and save the concert – complete with tricky puzzles and exciting backstage tours.

Escape Game
Escape Game © Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

For children

Twinkle Concert S / Nest
Twinkle Concert S / Nest © Marion Kahane

Concert streams for children, videos to participate in, the much loved podcast "Kopfhörer" (German) and a digital world of instruments to discover.

Mediatheque : More stories

War and peace in music

How does music speak about war? And what does peace sound like? An essay.

Georges Bizet: Carmen
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Video on demand from 21 Apr 2024 : Georges Bizet: Carmen

Great emotions and famous catchy tunes: Georges Bizet’s opera hit »Carmen« in the Grand Hall – in its original version from 1874.

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: Elbphilharmonie Sessions: Julia Hagen

The young star cellist Julia Hagen fills the Elbphilharmonie car park with music by Sofia Gubaidulina