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Simone Menezes has captivated audiences worldwide with her project Amazônia, which combines Sebastião Salgado’s moving photographs with music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass, and she will now be performing the programme with the Dresden Philharmonic (6 June) and the Gulbenkian Orchestra (11 and 12 June).

Johannes Maria Staud’s opera missing in cantu (eure paläste sind leer), based on a libretto by Thomas Köck, had its Austrian premiere on 23 May at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck in a new production by Bettina Bruinier, and will run until 7 July.

"An outstanding debut album": Jan Liebermann's recording, featuring works by Marcel Dupré and Maurice Duruflé, among others, was selected as an Editor's Choice by Gramophone magazine.

"Unquestionably magnificent". On 14 May, Michael Wendeberg conducted the world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s opera We at Dortmund Opera; the production, directed by Eva-Maria Höckmayr, will run until 7 June.

Sasha Stychkina’s debut CD is due to be released in June on the Alpha Classics label, and in the weeks leading up to it, singles from the album are whetting listeners’ appetites.

"A recording for the ages": Daishin Kashimoto’s interpretation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Berlin Baroque Soloists has received rave reviews.

Until 21 June, Peter Rundel will be conducting eight performances of Sara Glojnarić’s new opera Station Paradiso at the Stuttgart Opera House, including the world premiere on 10 May.

From 9 May to 5 July, Johannes Klumpp will be conducting Mozart’s The Magic Flute in Gelsenkirchen, which will be presented in a completely new guise at the Musiktheater im Revier – directed by Nora Krahl using digital techniques, artificial intelligence and interactive technologies.

"Verve, energy, and charm": To kick off of their complete recording of Mozart’s string quintets, supplemented by contemporary musical ‘postcards’ to the composer, the Kuss Quartet has now released the first of three planned albums, in collaboration with violist Muriel Razavi.

‘A dazzling interpretation of the opera’: Christian Øland has won over both the press and the audience with his debut as General Music Director in Magdeburg – Massenet’s Manon can be seen under his musical direction until June.

We are delighted to announce that we are now working with the pianist Marianna Shirinyan, who captivates audiences as both a soloist and a chamber musician with her charismatic stage presence, as well as her delicate sensitivity, technical mastery and beautiful tone.

A warm welcome to Sasha Stychkina! We are pleased to announce that we are now taking over the management of this young musician, whose virtuosity at the piano has brought her early success in competitions and who now captivates audiences with her confident musicality and technical brilliance.

Welcome, Jan Liebermann! We are thrilled to begin our collaboration with one of the most promising artists on the international organ scene.

For the German magazine Fono Forum, Arnt Cobbers spoke to Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher about cosmic music, their collaboration with composers such as Stockhausen and Kurtág, and interpretative freedom in both older and contemporary music.

In 2026, the music world will celebrate the 100th birthday of Friedrich Cerha and honour the composer, who died in 2023, with publications, concerts and even a world premiere; a special stamp will also be issued to mark the occasion.

We are delighted to announce our collaboration with saxophonist Asya Fateyeva, who is captivating a growing international audience with her distinctive playing and innovative programme concepts.

To mark the release of his new album Notebook, Lukas Ligeti spoke in April 2026 in an in-depth interview with Samuel Andreyev about formative musical experiences and his artistic development.

Simone Menezes and her Ensemble K have recorded a chamber version of Gustav Holst's Planets Suite, which has now been released on CD under the title Cosmos.

Anton Gerzenberg's debut CD, Ravel Reflections, was launched on 5 December 2025 on the Prospero label.

On the occasion of the new recording of Stockhausen's epochal piano work Mantra, Götz Schumacher talks in an interview about the intensive relationship that has connected the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo with the work since its beginnings.

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.

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.

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.

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.