The series of important concerts celebrating Friedrich Cerha's 95th birthday culminates on August 7th: the monumental Spiegel cycle can be experienced at the Salzburg Festival, performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ingo Metzmacher. In our magazine we celebrate the anniversary with a collection of portrait articles, current links, and his video interview for the Stadtjournal wien.at.

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.

At the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, a work was premiered that has occupied the mind of its composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi for years.

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.

Toshio Hosokawa will be awarded the Goethe Medal in August for writing music that builds bridges between cultures.

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.

Valentin Uryupin steps into the role of chief conductor of Moscow’s Novaya Opera Theatre at the start of the 2021/22 season.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Simon Bode talks about his wanderlust for musical journeys.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

"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.

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.