prepares to take over from sir simon rattle as chief conductor of the city's famed berlin philharmonic now on monday trying to announce his plans for the twenty nineteen twenty twenty season which include a european tour and play some heavy emphasis on the works of beethoven for his two hundred fiftieth birthday. totally in his element demonstrating the full range of his skills. starting this summer he'll pick up the baton at the berlin philharmonic the internationally renowned orchestra elected him in twenty fifteen the expectations and anticipation are high. the maestro is famously media shy giving very few interviews but once a year he has to subject themselves to a press conference this one is his first with the berlin philharmonic. orchestra i know this orchestra has a source of energy in it that is indescribable and as a conductor i have to learn to deal with the source of energy and deal with it correctly. tanko has already conducted the philharmonic a few times there are twenty seven thousand performance of czech cos he's pathetic was superb promising great things to come. to e