The Armida Quartet has put together a comprehensive Mozart package in recent years: a concert series, a complete recording, and even an app - all with surprising perspectives on the composer.

As music director of the Folkoperan Stockholm, Henrik Schaefer starts the new season by bringing the house fresh ideas – and not just through the original romantic sound he wants to achieve there.

Ondřej Adámek's "Zeitinsel" at the Konzerthaus Dortmund will be the setting for two major works at the end of January: the world premiere of his new cello concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras and the German premiere of his opera Seven Stones are on the programme.

In the FAZ, Ilya Gringolts is portrayed as a musician with enormous stylistic range and unwavering integrity. Both can be experienced at the concerts in the coming weeks.

From 22 January, Michael Wendeberg will be guest conducting a new opera by Torsten Rasch at the Semperoper.

Samir Odeh-Tamimi's compositional take on Jani Christou's Project Files premieres in Berlin on 23 January and is subsequently shown at the Munich Biennale and in Athens.

Titus Engel received rave reviews for his conducting of the operatic collage around Franz Léhar's operetta Giuditta. On 26 January and 27 February you can see a recording of the production staged by Christoph Marthaler at the Bavarian State Opera.

Maximilian Hornung becomes artistic director of the Traunstein Summer Concerts

The JACK Quartet's European tour stops in Ghent, Heidelberg, Lugano, and at the Berlin Philharmonie in January.

Alex Nante was nominated for his Sinfonia del Cuerpo de Luz at the 2022 Victoires de la musique classique.

In June, Philippe Manoury will celebrate his 70th birthday. The first birthday candles were lit already in January by the Arditti Quartet at the Philharmonie de Paris.

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

Nominated for the Grammy Awards: The JACK Quartet and the Turtle Island Quartet are in the running for the coveted award.

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

Peter Rundel conducts Jules Massenet's Werther in a new production of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden starting 9 December.

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

“After a very difficult year, I wanted to offer the listeners an album full of positivity, lightness and beauty in a desire to return to a serene life“, violist Adrien La Marca explains about his new duo album Chanson Bohème.

In November, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival presented three large-scale works by Chaya Czernowin, who was composer-in-residence at the UK's most important festival for contemporary music.

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.

With Johann Sebastian Bach's seven toccatas, Claire Huangci presents herself as an equally versatile and virtuosic interpreter of baroque repertoire.

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

Congratulations to Tabea Zimmermann: She is on the longlist for the German Record Critics Award.

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.

On September 13, Alejo Pérez conducted the premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In an interview, he explains what connects him with this opera and with Russian repertoire altogether.

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.

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.

In the concert series Bühne frei, Claire Huangci performed works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Gershwin and Gulda on hr-television. The concert and her interview with host Max Mutzke remain available in the ARD Mediathek.

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

Simon Bode talks about his wanderlust for musical journeys.

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

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.

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.

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: the monumental Spiegel cycle was performed at the Salzburg Festival by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ingo Metzmacher. We celebrate the anniversary with a collection of portrait articles, current links, and his video interview for the Stadtjournal wien.at.

In June, Anssi Karttunen's recital Les cercles de Claude, recorded at Salle Cortot, was premiered via online stream. The concert in two parts is still available on Youtube.

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.

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.

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.