"Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title of Jens Joneleit's new composition, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique are presenting in Berlin. This work will [...]
"Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title of Jens Joneleit's new composition, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique are presenting in Berlin. This work will [...]
In difficult times, people have always sought comfort and support in the community and not least in singing and making music together. This also applies to the era that [...]
Beethoven was only fifteen years old when he began the sketches for his Piano Concerto in B flat major, op. 19. Schubert wrote his third symphony, op. 200, at eighteen, Bizet his first symphony [...]
"Réveil des oiseaux" is also a virtuoso piano concerto, for which we have Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a master pianist who was influenced by his encounter with Messiaen as a child [...].
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that do not tell a "programme" story and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: they express pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation. Each [...]
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that do not tell a "programme" story and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: they express pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation. Each [...]
Compositions of tragic topicality. A concert in times of war. The Symphony Orchestra of the Berlin University of the Arts, together with the Kammerchor der Künste Berlin and the mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya, will [...]
"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 [...]
