Just before Bas Wiegers conducted his first concerts in front of a live audience in May, he sat down for an interview to reflect on the preceding Corona year.

As music director of the Folkoperan Stockholm, Henrik Schaefer started the season 2021/22 by bringing the house fresh ideas – and not just through the original romantic sound.

A Mozart with character, played to perfection: Rave reviews for the Armida Quartet's new CD.

Congratulations to Titus Engel on his appointment as the new Principal Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta!

The first international orchestra to guest in two wonderful new halls: karsten witt musik management brought the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Robin Ticciati to Ankara and Istanbul.

The season brochure for 2022/23

Minna Pensola and Antti Tikkanen take over the artistic direction of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.

On Vito Žuraj's new CD Alavò, three large orchestras and renowned soloists interpret three works from the past five years.

Before the premiere of the first part of his large spacial orchestra triptych, Philippe Manoury talked about his musical career, his first contact with electronic music and his handling of the large orchestral apparatus.

The complete recording of Christophe Bertrand's instrumental works with the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Peter Rundel, and Brad Lubman was awarded the German Record Critics' Award 2021.

For his music building bridges between cultures, Toshio Hosokawa has been awarded the Goethe Medal.

As promised by its title, the new CD of Trio Mediaeval provides comfort: Solacium combines lullabies, hymns, and chorales from the Nordic countries with newly composed works.

Part science documentary, part true crime story: Philippe Manoury about his reconstruction of Boulez' Livre pour quatuor.

Journalist Barry Davis (The Jerusalem Post) accompanied the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's tour of Germany and drew an enthusiastic account of the first concert tour after the lockdown.

A much anticipated work by composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi received its world premiere at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2021.

Ilya Gringolts' solo-CD Ciaccona features music of today and draws inspiration from Johann Sebastian Bach.

For his recording of Bach's six partitas, Mahan Esfahani examined various copies and printed editions of the works.

Diapason d'or for Ilya Gringolts: on his new CD with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra he dazzles with music by Locatelli.

Congratulations to Antje Weithaas and Maximilian Hornung on winning the BBC Music Magazine Award!

Simon Bode talks about his wanderlust for musical journeys.

With his work Api-danza macabra, Vito Žuraj addresses the explosive topic of bee mortality. The WDR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, premiered the commissioned composition this summer.

Eliahu Inbal's recording of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is the first purely orchestral release by the fledgling SWR Symphony Orchestra.

Marie Heeschen and her ensemble Paper Kite are dedicated to the evocative music created during or as a result of the Thirty Years' War.

Outrage is not enough: Titus Engel talks to the FAZ about conducting Bartók's only opera and about cultural politics in Corona times.

The winner of the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2020, Tabea Zimmermann, accepted the prize during the digital ceremony on 15 June 2021. A portrait by Patrick Hahn outlines her exceptional career.

The series of concerts celebrating Friedrich Cerha's 95th birthday culminated in August 2021: the monumental Spiegel cycle was performed at the Salzburg Festival by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ingo Metzmacher. We celebrated the anniversary with a collection of portrait articles, current links, and his video interview for the Stadtjournal wien.at.

Under the artistic direction of Jeremias Schwarzer, three venues in the northern Eifel came together for the first time to form an interdisciplinary festival in May, June and September 2021.

Our three-part series of interviews marking Eliahu Inbal's 85th birthday kicks off with musings and memories about his musical roots.

On 19 February, Ryoko Aoki joined musicians from Ensemble Musikfabrik in the virtual space to perform Peter Eötvös' melodrama Secret Kiss.

Jan Caeyers' Beethoven biography is a resounding success, also in its English translation.

Bringing about new things: Ilya Gringolts' I&I Foundation

In 2019, Alejo Pérez conducted Sergei Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel to great acclaim at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The production is now available on DVD.

Breathing differently every evening: The conductor Alejo Pérez

We congratulate Titus Engel on being named Conductor of the Year 2020 by Opernwelt magazine!

In the second instalment of our series of interviews to mark Eliahu Inbal’s birthday, the conductor looks back on his apprenticeship years in Israel and Europe.

Before his career as a conductor, Michael Wendeberg was a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain as a pianist and worked closely with Pierre Boulez. On the fifth anniversary of Boulez’ death, his complete recording of the composer's piano works were released.

Anssi Karttunen is against monotony. On his Instead List for Cello, he pairs a rarely played work worth listening to with every well know piece.

Charles V, Walter Benjamin, Prince of Homburg, Friedrich Hölderlin, Martin Luther: Dietrich Henschel takes on history’s greats.

Our series of interviews celebrating Eliahu Inbal’s birthday concludes with the conductor’s memories of his recording successes, and reflections on orchestral sound and the interpretation of works.

Musicians who also express themselves in other artistic fields were at the centre of the Donaueschingen Festival 2014. A composer who many saw in a new light on this occasion is Friedrich Cerha.

New in New York: Brad Lubman and the Reich Richter Pärt project

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Always Ready for Something New

15 Years: Our Anniversary Magazine and an Interview with Karsten Witt.

"At a time when the livelihood of artists is fundamentally threatened, they must use their resources in a creative way to find a way out of this crisis," says Dietrich Henschel about his opera project COSÌ.20 – Love is Contagious.

Olli Mustonen talks about an early musical key experience, two new compositions and the special meaning that the Paul Hindemith Award bears for him.

Philosophy and Emotion: The Conductor Titus Engel

The Remix Ensemble celebrates its 20^th anniversary. Back in 2015, the ensemble’s artistic director, Peter Rundel, told us the story of its early days.

Ryoko Aoki incorporates into her performances a theatrical culture that, in the past, was largely reserved for male performers.

A new concert hall complex of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, home of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, will be completed in 2023 with a design by the London office of the late renowned architect Zaha Hadid.

Karsten Witt about the late Hans Zender

The libretto and score for Johannes Maria Stauds new opera Die Weiden were written in parallel, developed through constant communication.

From life on the front line to the intimacies of love: Chaya Czernowin’s new opera Heart Chamber presents a huge tonal shift from the subject matter of her last project for the stage.

The chemistry is right: Alejo Pérez about his new position at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.

Lukas Ligeti on artistic influences and his father's legacy.

"Few approach the unknown world of the organ with such patience and intensity,” enthused organist Stephan Heuberger about composer Mark Andre and his work iv15 Himmelfahrt.