On 20th December, Steven Sloane will conduct the premiere of the new production of Puccini's Tosca, which will be staged at Malmö Opera under the direction of Sofia Jupither. The opera, which premiered 120 years ago, will be performed in Malmö 15 times through 16 February....

We are delighted that the Sunday Times has ranked three of our artists' recordings among the best of 2019. Among the 100 selected Pop, Classical, Jazz and World recordings are Philippe Manoury's Le temps, mode d'emploi with the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, as well as Anssi Karttunen's CD with Hans Werner Henze's Cello Concerto, performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen, and Tabea Zimmermann's recording of Berlioz's Harold en Italie with the Orchestra Les Siècles under François-Xavier Roth....

On 14 December "Fluteman" Gabor Vosteen will be a guest in a fairytale production at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. In Der Kleine Wassermann, an acrobat and the virtuoso flutist will be on stage together with the speaker Axel Thielmann, pupils of the Robert-Schumann-Gymnasium and members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra....

We congratulate the Castalian String Quartet on their 2019 Young Artists Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society! On 28 November, the four musicians received the prestigious award at the award ceremony in London, which honours their "thoughtful, intelligent music-making at the highest level"....

On 14 December, Charlotte Bray's new work will be premiered by Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Duncan Ward and featuring cellist Natalie Clein. The Certainty of Tides will be performed in a concert to mark the 100th anniversary of the British Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, which gave women access to legal professions and public offices....

Sarah Wegener will perform several times in December as a soloist in the Christmas Oratorio. Together with the Chorwerk Ruhr and the B'rock Orchestra, she will be a guest at the Philharmonie Essen on 13 December, followed by appearances in Alicante and the Auditorio Nacional de la Música in Madrid, before performing Bach's work with the Philharmonischer Chor München and the Orchester der KlangVerwaltung am Gasteig on 23 December....

... and into the Philharmonies of Paris and Luxembourg, as well as the BOZAR Brussels: from 14 to 16 December, Tabea Zimmermann will be on tour as Artist-in-Residence of the Concertgebouworkest with Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante (violin: Isabell Faust). Prior to this, a chamber music concert and two orchestral concerts are scheduled for 10 December in Amsterdam....

On 11 December Jan Caeyers and his Beethoven orchestra Le Concert Olympique will make their first appearance in Kassel before continuing their tour with concerts in Ludwigsburg and - exactly one year before the composer's 250th birthday - at the Berliner Philharmonie. Kristian Bezuidenhout, celebrated protagonist of the pianoforte scene, will play an Erard grand piano from 1837 in the concert, which is titled "Sternstunden"....

Many children dream of opening a few doors at the same time before the day of Advent. Baritone Dietrich Henschel and the ensemble unitedberlin under Vladimir Jurowski are realising this dream for themselves and the audience at the Konzerthaus Berlin on 7 December. With the world premiere of twelve short Christmas compositions written by composers from different cultures, the musicians will simultaneously present their joint CD....

From December 5 to 8, Shiyeon Sung will conduct the Korean Symphony Orchestra in five performances of Engelbert Humperdinck's fairytale opera Hänsel und Gretel. The Korea National Opera in Seoul presents the popular work at the Opera Theater of the Seoul Arts Center in a production by Christian Pade....

Christoph Prégardien's recording of Schumann's Dichterliebe, his Lenau Lieder as well as Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder has now been released. Together with pianist Michael Gees, with whom he has worked intensively for many years, Prégardien recorded the works for the Challenge label. The duo has already recorded a whole series of highly acclaimed CDs for Challenge:...