A drummer-turned-composer, Steve Reich has produced some of the most vibrant, original and interesting music of our time, with influences as varied as Bach, Stravinsky, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Balinese and Ghanaian percussion. His technique…

The Gala from Berlin 2008 features the Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, and world-class singers Thomas Quasthoff and Pauline Malefane with an outstanding all-American program ranging from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris…

In August 2022, the musicians of the world-class Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (RIO) gathered in Bratislava to perform their first recording under the direction of founder and artistic director Mikhail Pletnev . Experience the beloved tunes…

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve concert 2018 is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, who looks back on a close artistic partnership with the Berliner Philharmoniker spanning over five decades. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s festive Piano Concerto…

Songs of Love and Desire was the theme of the 1998 New Year's Eve concert of the Berlin Philharmonic under the musical direction of Claudio Abbado. Christine Schäfer, Simon Keenlyside, and Marcelo Àlvarez excelled in famous arias and scenes from…

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s annual New Year’s Eve concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan. The program of the New Year’s Eve Concert 1997 bore the title ”Dances of Life, Love, and Death”, and was meant as a…

With her flexible and darkly-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle’s side during the New Year’s Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss’s lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The program also includes works by…

Murder at the Symphony is a live concert full of mystery and thrill, performed by the Danish National Symphony, including popular film music from Psycho, Twin Peaks, Sherlock Holmes, and many more. TRACKLIST: 1. Babylon Berlin: Zu Asche, zu Staub 2…

The Argentine pianist Martha Argerich has been dazzling audiences for decades with what the New York Times has referred to as ‘prodigious technique with uncanny musicality.’ She is now a regular of the artistic family at the popular Verbier Festival…

The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester was founded in 1986 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado and has since become the world’s best youth orchestra. Named after the great composer, the programme is marked by the special relationship between the maestro…