Inspired by an irrepressible spirit of exploration, Claire Huangci devotes herself to an unusually broad repertoire in her artistic work. An American by birth and the daughter of two natural scientists, she has lived in Germany since her student days and has released seven highly successful CDs of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Paderewski. These have received awards including [...]

At the end of his first season as chief conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane brings his orchestra to Germany together with the great pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. Berlin audiences know Steven Sloane as guest conductor of the Konzerthausorchester, the DSO, the Deutsche Oper and the Komische Oper. The JSO was founded in 1936 largely by emigrants from Germany [...]

"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 brings Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony to new life. Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, as well as Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, were written in [...]

"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 brings Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony to new life. Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, as well as Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, were written in [...]

In difficult times, people have always sought solace and support in community and not least in singing and making music together. This also applies to the era that produced our "classical music". Johann Christian Bach's Miserere was composed during the Seven Years' War. And Haydn wrote his Missa in angustiis ("in [...]

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, when he was eighteen, and Bizet his first symphony when he was seventeen. It is not surprising that in all three cases one senses how much these composers were inspired by their great role models at a young age [...].

"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. The work is based on faithful transcriptions of birdsong, which Messiaen revered as divine messages. These enigmatic sounds, which were heard on our planet long before [...]