Starting on 28 May, the WDR Symphony Orchestra will premiere a short composition every month that reflects current events, the first of which is by Charlotte Bray.

A "mighty achievement" and a "gripping experience" (The Times): On April 20, Mahan Esfahani performed the complete Book 1 of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier at Wigmore Hall.

Welcome Adrien La Marca: we are happy to announce that the "new hero of the viola" (Le Monde) is joining our roster!

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

After his recent success with Die Schöne Müllerin in Madrid, Christoph Prégardien will give another recital in front of a live audience in Spain on 16 May.

As violist and musical director, Tabea Zimmermann will perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante as the Berlin Philharmonic's Artist in Residence on 8 May via their Digital Concert Hall.

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

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

Congratulations to Ming Tsao on his award as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2021!

Claire Huangci plays Franz Liszt's arrangement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

Marc Soustrot is the new chief conductor of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.

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.

Charlotte Bray's duo composition for the ECHO Rising Stars tours virtual space.

The birth of virtuosity: On his new CD with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and in a streamed concert with the Ensemble Resonanz, Ilya Gringolts presents music by Locatelli.

Simon Bode talks about his wanderlust for musical journeys.

Father and Son: Christoph and Julian Prégardien present their programme at the Philharmonie de Paris with orchestra and choreography, and in Brussels with pianist Michael Gees.

“Spontaneity is intimate, risky, and vital, and it requires a relationship with the audience,” says Rachel Fenlon in the winter issue of Art Song Canada.

Friedrich Cerha celebrates his 95th birthday - and we celebrate his life and his work with a collection of portrait articles, current links and concert dates and his video interview for the Stadtjournal wien.at.

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.

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.

After months of silence, the four musicians of the Arditti Quartet, together with their audience, rediscovered a ritual—the live concert. Irvine Arditti reports about a small tour with great experiences.

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

Online now: Our current season brochure

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.

Strange times for concerts, a good time for a little reflection by Claire Huangci.

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 his Reich Richter Pärt project

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Always Ready for Something New

Zum 15-jährigen Jubiläum: Ein Magazin und ein Interview mit Karsten Witt.

Patrick Hahn pays tribute to Tabea Zimmermann, winner of the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2020, as one of the greatest interpreters of her era.

"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.

Remixed: The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo presents compositions in a new sound outfit. At the Schwetzingen Festival they performed one of them.

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

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.

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

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

Karsten Witt about the late Hans Zender

The libretto and score for Johannes Maria Stauds new opera 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.

Voyage of the Philharmonie: Philippe Manoury's Triptych for Orchestra

Eclectic and cosmopolitan, from a mediaeval point of view: Anna Maria Friman, Linn
Andrea Fuglseth and Jorunn Lovise Husan perform repertoire from the Codex Las Huelgas.

François-Frédéric Guy, expert in romantic German repertoire and especially Beethoven's works, describes his experience as an orchestra leader from the piano as a "thrilling tightrope act".

“Now” is always different, fluid, says conductor Bas Wiegers in his essay about diversity, change, and the power of live performances.

Remembering Noam Sheriff: Steven Sloane in Conversation with Karsten Witt