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Around the turn of the year, Dmitry Liss conducts performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's fairytale opera The Snow Maiden at the Tyrolean Festival Erl, where he also conducts works by Tchaikovsky at the New Year's Concert.

The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, will give the German premiere of Mark Andre's orchestral cycle Vier Echographien on 17, 18 and 19 December.

On 16 December, Holly Hyun Choe will make her debut with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn with a Beethoven night.

Jonathan Stockhammer conducts the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a new ballet that can now also be seen online on Arte concert: With BOVARY, Christian Spuck presents his first production as artistic director of the Staatsballett Berlin.

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Happy birthday, IEMA: The International Ensemble Modern Academy is 20 years old, and Jonathan Stockhammer will conduct a birthday concert on 15 December with works by Hans Zender and Friedrich Goldmann, among others.

Fabian Panisello CR Alejandro Garcia Ortiz

Péter Eötvös turns 80 in January, and Concerto Budapest will be celebrating him with a concert at Müpa Budapest on 14 December - under the direction of Fabián Panisello at the jubilarian's request.

SWR Symphonieorchester Teodor Currentzis c SWR Moritz Metzger

CLSX.DE PRESENTS

Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light: New works by Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury, among others, will be performed in December together with Mahler's unfinished Tenth in six concerts with the SWR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Teodor Currentzis in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Freiburg, and Berlin.

NEW CDS

"Impulsive and rich in contrast - simply fantastic": like its predecessor, the second part of Antje Weithaas' recording of all Beethoven violin sonatas has also been enthusiastically received.

LIGETI 100

The multifaceted exhibition Ligeti Labyrinth, which was conceived by the Budapest Institute of Musicology and the Paul Sacher Foundation, can be seen at the Basel Historical Museum until April 2024.

NEW WITH US

We are delighted to be working with the French soprano Jenny Daviet.

Open little doors with Hyung-ki Joo: The all-round artist accompanies you through the pre-Christmas period with a sounding Advent calendar, sometimes contemplative, sometimes lively.

IN CONVERSATION

"Don't touch" was what Carlotta Dalia heard as a child when it came to guitars. Luckily, she revolted against this order and now delights audiences with her playing on historical and modern guitars, even outside of sworn guitar circles.

IN CONVERSATION

Lukas Ligeti is the artistic director of the World New Music Days, which will took place in Africa for the first time in its centenary year from 24 November to 3 December - a unique opportunity for creative exchange: both the African audience and the guests from all over the world heard music they had never come into contact with before.

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 new website friedrich-cerha.com.

NEW CDS

Congratulations to Mahan Esfahani: His recording of 20th century Czech harpsichord concertos with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Liebreich was awarded an Opus Klassik.

Roland Kluttig is directing the new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Heidelberg Theatre until April - the premiere on 23 September was enthusiastically received by audiences and critics.

IN CONVERSATION

World premiere of the year: Vito Žuraj's first full-length opera Blühen came to the stage in Frankfurt in early 2023 under the musical direction of Michael Wendeberg and has now been named premiere of the year by Opernwelt magazine. In our interview, Vito Žuraj talks about his collaboration with librettist Händl Klaus, director Brigitte Fassbaender and the Ensemble Modern.

Johannes Maria Staud's new opera missing in cantu (eure paläste sind leer), based on the acclaimed play by Thomas Köck, had its world premiere at the Kunstfest Weimar in a production by Andrea Moses which will be presented in further performances until December.

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Newborns as music critics: With Liszt's Liebestraum No. 2, Mariam Batsashvili starts a series of recordings of "baby-friendly" works from the piano repertoire.

NEW CDS

Trio Mediaeval's new album presents the music of the Old Hall Manuscript, a long-lost collection of English motets and masses of the Middle Ages, together with works composed especially for the trio.

Numerous obituaries, some of them very personal, pay tribute to the life and work of Friedrich Cerha, who died in February 2023.

NEW CDS

On François-Frédéric Guy's first Chopin album Secret Garden, the pianist lets a cross-section of Chopin's works blossom on two CDs.

NEW CDS

The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo inspires with their recording of Brigitta Muntendorf's Trilogy for two pianos and as performers in her Theater des Nachhalls (Theatre of Echo) included on Blue-ray.

NEW CDS

The PluralEnsemble has recorded important works by Fabián Panisello for a recently released portrait CD.

LIGETI 100

In addition to having recorded all of György Ligeti's works for choir a cappella, the SWR Vokalensemble is offering workshops on the composer's work as part of a major school project and is also touring his music in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France and Italy in May and June.

Composers of various generations talk about their personal encounters with Friedrich Cerha’s monumental Spiegel cycle.

NEW CDS

Congratulations to Daishin Kashimoto: his CD with chamber music by Nino Rota received a Diapason d'or award of the year!

On 2 February 2023, Samir Odeh-Tamimi's music theatre work Philoktet, based on the dramas by Sophocles, Heiner Müller and André Gide, was premiered at the Eclat Festival Stuttgart with the Neue Vocalsolisten and the Zafraan Ensemble.

ON OUR BEHALF

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ON OUR BEHALF

In an interview with the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper, Karsten Witt talks about the aftermath of the corona pandemic in the classical music business, the unbroken enthusiasm for making music and our new concert series hiddenCLSX (in German).

The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, will give the German premiere of Mark Andre's orchestral cycle Vier Echographien on 17, 18 and 19 December.

EVENTS

THU 07.12.

Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

Marc Soustrot conducts the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

FRI 08.12.

Yeree Suh: Konzerthaus Blaibach

Valentin Uryupin: Staatstheater, Nürnberg

Ilya Gringolts: Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Marc Soustrot conducts the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

Antje Weithaas: Staatstheater Cottbus

Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

SAT 09.12.

Yeree Suh: Konzerthaus Blaibach

Anton Gerzenberg: Muri Abbey

Ilya Gringolts: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Mariam Batsashvili: Edesche Concertzaal

SUN 10.12.

Maximilian Hornung with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Yeree Suh: Aldersbach

Giuseppe Gibboni: Stadthalle Langen

Daishin Kashimoto: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Antje Weithaas: Staatstheater Cottbus

MON 11.12.

Valentin Uryupin: Staatstheater, Nürnberg

Maximilian Hornung with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

TUE 12.12.

Christoph Prégardien: Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Antje Weithaas: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

Mariam Batsashvili: Wigmore Hall, London

Isabel Mundry: Genevieve Strosser plays works by Mundry, Holliger and others

Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

WED 13.12.

Mariam Batsashvili: deSingel Antwerp

THU 14.12.

Marie Heeschen: Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Fabián Panisello: Eötvös 80

Michael Wendeberg conducts the Bursa State Symphony Orchestra

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

FRI 15.12.

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Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

Marc Soustrot conducts the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

Yeree Suh: Konzerthaus Blaibach

Valentin Uryupin: Staatstheater, Nürnberg

Ilya Gringolts: Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Marc Soustrot conducts the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

Antje Weithaas: Staatstheater Cottbus

Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

Yeree Suh: Konzerthaus Blaibach

Anton Gerzenberg: Muri Abbey

Ilya Gringolts: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Mariam Batsashvili: Edesche Concertzaal

Maximilian Hornung with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Yeree Suh: Aldersbach

Giuseppe Gibboni: Stadthalle Langen

Daishin Kashimoto: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Antje Weithaas: Staatstheater Cottbus

Valentin Uryupin: Staatstheater, Nürnberg

Maximilian Hornung with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Christoph Prégardien: Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Antje Weithaas: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

Mariam Batsashvili: Wigmore Hall, London

Isabel Mundry: Genevieve Strosser plays works by Mundry, Holliger and others

Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

Mariam Batsashvili: deSingel Antwerp

Marie Heeschen: Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Fabián Panisello: Eötvös 80

Michael Wendeberg conducts the Bursa State Symphony Orchestra

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

Ulrike Mayer: Theater Bremen

Jonathan Stockhammer & Ensemble Modern on the 20th birthday of the International Ensemble Modern Academy

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel

Mark Andre and Philippe Manoury: Mahler's 10th Symphony in a different light

Holly Hyun Choe: Theater Bonn

Marie Heeschen: Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Daishin Kashimoto: WeiWuYing Concert Hall, Kaohsiung City

Alejo Pérez: Opera Gent

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel

François-Frédéric Guy: Les Musicales de Compesières

Mark Andre: Philharmonie Cologne

Johannes Klumpp: Villa Hügel

Yeree Suh: Konzerthaus Berlin

Valentin Uryupin: Staatstheater, Nürnberg

Mark Andre: Philharmonie Cologne