Claire Huangci, who is one of today's most sought-after young pianists (FonoForum), will perform in two important European concert halls in October: the Berlin Philharmonie and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In her programs, she spans a wide range from Bach to Schubert to the American composer John Corigliano. Inspired by an irrepressible spirit of exploration, she dedicates herself [...]
At the end of his first season as principal conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane brings his orchestra to Germany together with the great pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. Steven Sloane is familiar to Berlin audiences 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 for the new composition by Jens Joneleit, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique will present in Hamburg. This work brings Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony to new life. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto were written, as were Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, in [...]
"Rethinking Beethoven X" was the working title for the new composition by Jens Joneleit, which Beethoven expert Jan Caeyers and his orchestra Le Concert Olympique will present in Berlin. This work brings Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony to new life. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, like Beethoven's sketches for his 10th Symphony, were composed in [...]
In difficult times, people have always sought comfort and support in community and, not least, in singing and making music together. This also applies to the epoch that gave birth to our "classical music". Johann Christian Bach's Miserere was written during the Seven Years' War. And Haydn wrote his Missa in angustiis ("in [...]
Beethoven was only fifteen when he began the sketches of his Piano Concerto in B flat major, op. 19. Schubert wrote his third symphony, op. 200, at eighteen, and Bizet his first symphony at seventeen. It is not surprising that in all three cases one senses how closely these composers approached their great models at a young age [...]
"Réveil des oiseaux" represents at the same time a virtuoso piano concerto, for which we have at our disposal 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 birdsongs, which Messiaen revered as divine messages. These enigmatic sounds, which have been present on our planet long before [...]
Three masterpieces of "absolute music" that tell no "programme" and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: in them pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation are expressed. Each work represents a cosmos of its own, particularly evident in the case of Friedrich Cerha, who spreads out a soundscape on over 300 percussion instruments. The energetic young exceptional virtuoso Vivi Vassileva [...]
Three masterpieces of "absolute music", which tell no "programme" and yet appear highly exciting and emotional: in them pain, conflict, grief as well as the longing for reconciliation are expressed. Each [...]
Compositions of tragic topicality. A concert in times of war. The Symphony Orchestra of the Berlin University of the Arts together with the Chamber Choir of the Arts Berlin and the mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya under [...]
