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With works by Takemitsu, Ravel, Schubert and Brahms, Daishin Kashimoto will be performing in a trio with Eric Le Sage and Claudio Bohórquez on 14 December at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and on 21 December in Wiesloch.

On 11 December, Christoph Prégardien will perform Johannes Maria Staud's newly orchestrated ensemble version of Schubert's cycle Die Schöne Müllerin with Klangforum Wien at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Entitled These Fevered Days, the work is interwoven with seven new songs based on poems by Emily Dickinson.

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We are delighted to be working with the KUSS Quartet, which will be performing four times at Berlin's Radialsystem in the first week of December: Leoš Janáček's string quartets are the focus of a production by the music theatre ensemble Nico and the Navigators.

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On 7 December, Titus Engel will make his debut at the Semperoper conducting the premiere of Immo Karaman's production of Hans Abrahamsen's The Snow Queen. The multi-layered opera will run there until January 8.

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Anton Gerzenberg's debut CD, Ravel Reflections, was launched on 5 December on the Prospero label.

On 6 December, Josefine Opsahl's new work The Wallpaper Serenades for mixed choir and brass quintet will premiere in Copenhagen.

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Recorded by the Ensemble Ascolta, the album Sounds, Archaeologies, now released on the KAIROS label, brings together compositions by Isabel Mundry that understand listening as an active, participatory process.

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Under the baton of Titus Engel, the WDR Symphony Orchestra recorded Betsy Jolas' Musique d'hiver – the album has now been awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.

Alejo Pérez is appointed principal conductor of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he will give his inaugural concert in May 2026.

On Johannes Maria Staud's new personal website, you can now find out the latest news and background information about his musical work and search a comprehensive database of his compositions.

Holly Hyun Choe is appointed Directrice musicale of the Orchestre national de Cannes.

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Ilya Gringolts' recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Francesco Corti has now been released by Arcana as his label debut and was promptly awarded the Diapason d'or.

On 11 October, Antje Weithaas received the coveted OPUS KLASSIK Instrumentalist of the Year award at a concert in St. Elisabeth's Church in Berlin, where she also performed live as a soloist.

ON OUR BEHALF

Now available as a podcast: For the series Menschen und ihre Musik (People and Their Music), Karsten Witt spoke with hr2 radio presenter Niels Kaiser in autumn 2025 about his unusual career as a music manager and about the music that has particularly moved and accompanied him along the way.

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In May 2025, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo premiered Ming Tsao's second adaptation of Stockhausen's complex and open score Plus Minus, which has now been released on the Neos label.

Titus Engel is appointed Conductor in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Toshio Howokawa's new opera Natasha premiered in August at the New National Theatre in Tokyo under the baton of Kazushi Ono and was enthusiastically received.

Gringolts Quartet © Tomasz Trzebiatowski

IN CONVERSATION

Following the performance of all six Mozart string quintets at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Ilya Gringolts explained to us what attracts him to historical instruments and why the Gringolts Quartet will continue to play on gut strings more frequently in the future.

Johannes Klumpp and the Heidelberger Sinfoniker are awarded the OPUS KLASSIK for their complete recording of all Haydn symphonies, completed in autumn 2024. Our congratulations!

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In an interview between her spring engagements in Lyon and Montreal, Jenny Daviet surprises us with her unexpected approach to roles and works and reveals her dreams for the future.

In June 2025, Philippe Manoury's 'Thinkspiel' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, based on Karl Kraus' monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind, premiered at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Peter Rundel and received enthusiastic reviews.

Toshio Hosokawa has received the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the "extraordinary reach of his music, which tends a bridge between the Japanese tradition and contemporary Western aesthetics", according to the jury.

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Mariam Batsashvili's new solo album Influences with works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt was launched by Warner Classics on 16 May.

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Vito Žuraj's first full-length opera Blühen (Blossoming), named Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 2023, was revived at Oper Frankfurt in October 2025 under the musical direction of Michael Wendeberg. In our interview, Vito Žuraj talks about his collaboration with librettist Händl Klaus, director Brigitte Fassbaender and the Ensemble Modern.

CERHA 100

In 2026, the music world will celebrate Friedrich Cerha's 100th birthday. In view of this occasion, we would like to draw your attention to a selection of the most important works by the composer, who died in February 2023 - and to the website friedrich-cerha.com.

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Variations on a theme: On the occasion of kwmm's 20th anniversary, filmmaker Uli Aumüller listened in on us with his camera and created a portrait of the company from 18 conversations about our work.

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Out now: Carlotta Dalia's album Segovia, a tribute to the pioneer of classical guitar playing and recorded on his own historical guitar.

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In April and May 2025, the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar presented Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger in a new production staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito under the musical direction of Roland Kluttig. We spoke to the conductor about his special relationship with Soviet music and the significance of Weinberg's opera for the memory of Nazi atrocities.

We congratulate Titus Engel on winning the Swiss Music Prize 2025.

Holly Hyun Choe becomes Principal Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

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Jeremias Schwarzer's album featuring four concertos for recorder by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Liza Lim, Dai Fujikura and Iris ter Schiphorst, recorded with four top-class orchestras, has been awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.

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EVENTS

SAT 06.12.

Josefine Opsahl: WP with thechamber choir CAMERATA in Copenhagen

Simon Bode: Hauptkirche Sankt Jacobi, Hamburg

Johannes Klumpp: Foyer BETRIEBSWERK Heidelberg

Kuss Quartett & Nico and the Navigators: Quartett zum Quadrat

SUN 07.12.

Friedrich Praetorius: Opernhaus Bonn

Holly Hyun Choe: Wunderino Arena, Kiel

Isabel Mundry: Symposium ›Afrodiaspora – Composing While Black‹ in Berlin

György Ligeti: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Kuss Quartett & Nico and the Navigators: Quartett zum Quadrat

Gringolts Quartet: Associazione Barattelli, L'Aquila

Titus Engel: Premiere "The Snow Queen" at Semperoper Dresden

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Raum 236, Zürich

TUE 09.12.

François-Frédéric Guy: Domaine Pommery, Reims

Peter Rundel: Casa da Música Porto

Gringolts Quartet: Auditorium Cesare Pollini, Padua

WED 10.12.

Titus Engel: Semperoper Dresden

THU 11.12.

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Christoph Prégardien: Wiener Konzerthaus

Castalian String Quartet: Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham

Ondřej Adámek: Norwegian premiere with Isabelle Faust

Ilya Gringolts: Prinzregententheater Munich

Alex Nante: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Mark Andre: Herkulessaal Munich

FRI 12.12.

Ryoko Aoki: Houkokuji Temple, Kamakura

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel, Essen

Ondřej Adámek: Universitetsaulaen i Bergen

Antje Weithaas: Casals Forum, Kronberg

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel, Essen

SAT 13.12.

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel, Essen

Alex Nante: Stadtkirche, Schwaigern

Antje Weithaas: Casals Forum, Kronberg

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel, Essen

SUN 14.12.

Holly Hyun Choe: Philharmonie, Cologne

Friedrich Praetorius: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel, Essen

Daishin Kashimoto: Paul Klee Centre, Bern

Antje Weithaas: Casals Forum, Kronberg

Alex Nante: Musikhochschule Würzburg

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel, Essen

MON 15.12.

Ryoko Aoki: Sen-Oku Hakukokan Tokyo

TUE 16.12.

François-Frédéric Guy: Amphithéâtre Axelrad, Rouen

WED 17.12.

Holly Hyun Choe: Philharmonie, Cologne

THU 18.12.