"You can hardly play the violin more expressively, more uncompromisingly than Gringolts," writes Harald Eggebrecht in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about this exceptional musician. At the age of 16, Ilya Gringolts already won the renowned Paganini Competition. Since then he has put his virtuosity at the service of subtle interpretations. Together with the Camerata Bern, he presents a programme from the end of the 17th [...]
The MDR Symphony Orchestra has a new principal conductor: American Dennis Russell Davies, who enjoys an excellent reputation as a Haydn and Bruckner conductor. In addition, as an advocate of contemporary music, he has worked with major composers such as John Cage, Philip Glass and Hans Werner Henze. Modernism is also a focus at his Leipzig venue. Ergo, the joint [...]
Dennis Russell Davies is considered a leading conductor of American music. In this concert, together with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and a total of nearly 200 performers, he presents three very personal works by composers who [...]
"The Gaechinger Cantorey is ... an experience. In the Great Hall there was a special highlight" wrote Marcus Stäbler in the Hamburger Abendblatt about the Elbphilharmonie debut a year ago: "The performers conjure, and the Great Hall conjures with them... Hans-Christoph Rademann models the mood changes of the Mass vividly and grippingly. With the 36 singers of his wide-awake choir, [...]
Although Henri Dutilleux was a contemporary and colleague of the avant-garde composer Pierre Boulez, he always found the latter's musical language too dogmatic. Instead, Dutilleux loved the musical "fragrance" and richness of sound that connected him with his great compatriot Debussy. With his Second Symphony, Dutilleux wrote a work in 1959 that is a distant link to the music of the 18th century. [...]
"I am delighted as often as 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 theatre of Imagination moves 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 is heard in this duo recital: Stravinsky's Divertissement (1934) is based on the music for his ballet Le Baiser de la fée, which in turn is inspired by Tchaikovsky's [...]
