Valentin Uryupin steps into the role of chief conductor of Moscow’s Novaya Opera Theatre at the start of the 2021/22 season.
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.
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.
Tune in: We invite you to sample our artists' latest CD and DVD releases.
Congratulations to Ming Tsao on his award as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2021!
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.
Solution-oriented work during the pandemic: In an interview for the Niedersächsische Musiktage, KWMM Managing Director Maike Fuchs gives insights into our current everyday working life as we navigate between concert cancellations and quarantine regulations.
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.
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.
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.
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
Emergency planning – Karsten Witt in conversation about corona and its consequences
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.
The Remix Ensemble celebrates its 20th 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.
In 2019, Wergo released a portrait CD including Anssi Karttunen’s recordings of Hans Werner Henze’s English Love Songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Oliver Knussen.
Voyage of the Philharmonie: Philippe Manoury's Triptych for Orchestra
In an interview with German music critic Eleonore Büning, Christoph Prégardien muses about empathy and stage fright, talk of a lieder crisis and the sins of concert promoters.
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".
Peter Rundel talks about opera.
Jerusalem Calling: Steven Sloane on New Journey
“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
Claire Huangci: In the Studio with Rachmaninov
