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Radio 3,18 mins

Inside the Elbphilharmonie concert hall

Music Matters

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch takes a look around Hamburg's spectacular new concert hall which finally opened its doors in January 2017, six years later than planned, and ten times over the original budget. Boasting groundbreaking acoustics and a 2000-seater hall, we hear from journalists, officials, concert-goers alongside Elbphilharmonie musicians and the hall’s director Christoph Lieben-Seutter to find out if this really is the world's most exciting concert hall.

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