Together with Götz Payer, Sarah Wegener appears in the living rooms of her fans (as long as they have a radio or internet connection): As part of the new SWR2 series #Zusammenspielen, she can be heard on the radio in an evening concert on 11 July; the studio recording is also available online....

On 2 July, violinist Daishin Kashimoto will perform in a trio with cellist Claudio Bohórquez and pianist Denis Kozhukhin in the foyer of the Nikolaisaal Potsdam. As part of the summer concert series "Echt jetzt?!", the top-class trio will perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Trio in E flat major op. 70, No. 2 as well as Franz Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat major op. 99 in front of a live audience....

The Audi Summer Concerts series will begin on 2 July with a special concert: sitting between historical Auto vehicles, Maximilian Hornung will interpret Schubert's Trout Quintet in Ingolstadt together with Lisa Batiashvili, Alice Sara Ott, Lawrence Power and Nabil Shehata, combined with a reading by Katja Riemann. At the end of this year's digital concert series, Lisa Batiashvili and Maximilian Hornung will meet again on 5 July, accompanied by the Camerata Salzburg under the direction of oboist and conductor François Leleux....

Together with the Orchestre national d'Auvergne under the baton of its music director Roberto Forés Veses, cellist Anssi Karttunen played the solo part in Betsy Jolas' work Side Roads at the end of 2019 at the Festival Musiques Démesurées de Clermont-Ferrand, which was the first French performance of the work. Now the recording is being released as a digital album, available in HD audio format 96k 24b and accompanied by a digital booklet....

Ryoko Aoki started her new streaming series on 30 May with the performance of the work Voice of Wind for Noh voice and bass flute (Kazushi Saito), composed by the composer Federico Gardella as a prayer for an end to Covid-19 (available online for further viewing here).  During the worldwide suffering caused by the pandemic, Ryoko Aoki commissioned international composers to write pieces for Noh voice, which she now performs in live streaming concerts....

The musicians of the Armida Quartet had invited a prominent partner for the online stream concert as part of their three-part Beethoven series: Tabea Zimmermann and the quartet interpreted the string quintet op. 29, which is played far too seldom, in the Berlin Theater im Delphi. The recording of the concert is now available on Youtube....

Sarah Wegener made her highly successful debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 with Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion as a soloist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal conducted by Kent Nagano. The live recording of the large-scale oratorio, which premiered in 1966, is now being released on the BIS label, two months after the death of the important Polish composer....

Rachel Fenlon presents an exciting new series in a music and conversation format via the streaming platform Idagio. Both with her self-accompanied song performances and in (musical) dialogue with guests, she explores how an unconventional and experimental attitude can enrich music-making. It will take place Wednesdays at 20.00 hrs via Idagio....

From 21 April onwards, Claire Huangci invites illustrious conversationalists to her new series Conversations with Claire every Tuesday at 6 pm. The prelude to the new format, presented and transmitted by the streaming platform Idagio, was an encounter with conductor Howard Griffith, with whom the pianist talked about Beethoven's Violin Concerto, among other things. The two musicians recorded the work together in the piano version and performed it repeatedly....