"You can hardly play the violin more expressively, more uncompromisingly than Gringolts", writes Harald Eggebrecht in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about this exceptional musician. Ilya Gringolts won the renowned Paganini Competition at the age of 16. Since then [...]
The MDR Symphony Orchestra has a new chief conductor: the American Dennis Russell Davies, who enjoys an excellent reputation as a Haydn and Bruckner conductor. He has also worked as an advocate of contemporary music with important [...]
Dennis Russell Davies is regarded as the leading conductor of American music. In this concert, together with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and a total of almost 200 performers, he presents three very personal works by composers who [...]
"The Gaechinger Cantorey is ... an experience. There was a special highlight in the Great Hall" wrote Marcus Stäbler in the Hamburger Abendblatt about the Elbphilharmonie debut a year ago: "The performers are magical, [...]
Although Henri Dutilleux was a contemporary and colleague of the avant-garde composer Pierre Boulez, he always found Boulez's musical language too dogmatic. Instead, Dutilleux loved the musical "fragrance" and richness of timbre that made him [...]
"I am delighted whenever I hear a new work of yours and take a greater interest in it than in my own. In short, I honor and love you," wrote Ludwig van [...]
photo credit @ICKHEO Master craftsmanship on stage? It sounds strange and fascinating at the same time: while a ceramist and a knot artist perform their work on stage, in the background [...]
The Theater of Imagination shifts the performance into the minds of the audience: the description of the events is projected onto a screen. The imagined stage action - famous, real productions [...]
Tatiana Chizhikova uses solid and condensed choreographic forms for her works, while their emotional content is rather complex and highly charged. In her new solo performance, she works with a simple [...]
A broad spectrum of musical deconstructions of classical formal models can be heard in this duo recital: Stravinsky's Divertissement (1934) is based on the music to his ballet Le Baiser de la fée, which in turn is inspired by Tchaikovsky's [...]
