The brass ensemble of the Staatskapelle Berlin makes its Pierre Boulez Saal debut with a program spanning three centuries of music history. Sumptuous arrangements of harpsichord works by Renaissance composer John Bull are followed by Elgar’s colorful Severn Suite and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Out of Black Dust, written in 2007. The concert’s second part is dedicated to Engelbert Humperdinck’s beloved fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel, heard in an adaptation for brass and speaker, narrated in German.