The Meistersaal Sessions are a 6-part series of chamber music theme concerts with the Freigeist Ensemble at the legendary Meistersaal Berlin, conducted by Joolz Gale. The series starts with arrangements of Schönberg, Strauss and Mahler. In…

The award-winning Trio con Brio Copenhagen performs piano trios from the years around 1900. The rarely played D'un matin de printemps by French composer Lili Boulanger is a tribute to nature’s eternity from the incredibly talented composer the world…

The Choir & Orchestra of the J.S. Bach Foundation is in the process of performing the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), a remarkable undertaking that will take about 25 years in total. The cantata "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset"…

Under the baton of the new chief conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are performing popular Motets by Johann Sebastian Bach, interspersed with fine instrumental works of the composer. Founded…

Franz Liszt described the art of conducting as less than a task to be in evidence but rather a feat in disappearing behind the function itself. Conductors are pilots, not servants. Looking back at the past two centuries, we have been blessed with the…

In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach paintings, the Monteverdi Choir and the English…

Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is an unforgettable opera about love, desire and the primal force of uncontrollable passion. Concluding the Salzburg Festival’s highly successful Mozart / Da Ponte cycle, director Sven-Eric Bechtolf sets this emotional…

“A fresh, charming and perceptive production, magical and irresistible!” (New York Times) “All narrative and poetry is nothing but the key to true dreams” (Hans Sachs). Spontaneously emerging from just such a truthful dream by the cobbler-poet on…

Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf pulls off a brilliant coup with the high aesthetics of his intrigue, a masterful parody of the “everything is possible” of our time - flanked by an ensemble of exquisite vocal talents: Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, testosterone…

Travel through the universe with the best tracks from Apollo 13, Avatar, Blade Runner, Gravity, Interstellar, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, and The Mandalorian. TRACKLIST: 1. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: Let There…